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    NBC News Chief Andrew Lack Out After Tenure Marked By Scandal

    Andrew Lack was brought in to steady NBC News after a scandal led to the suspension of anchor Brian Williams. Instead, Lack oversaw debacles involving Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer and Megyn Kelly.
    by David Folkenflik May 04, 2020 3 minutes

    NBC News chairman Andrew Lack was forced out Monday as part of a broader reorganization. The surprise wasn't in the announcement of Lack's departure, but that it had taken so long.

    In his more than five years over NBC News, Lack had overseen more than his share of disasters. There was the fiasco in 2017 by NBC News not to broadcast Ronan Farrow's #MeToo report on Harvey Weinstein, or even to pursue it further.

    Farrow would win a Pulitzer Prize for . Farrow's book, to NBC's decision.

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