David Westin

David Westin, "NewsRight" and the Essential Transformation of Digital Journalism

Andy Plesser | Posted 03.09.2012

Andy Plesser

Former ABC News president David Westin says that as the appetite for digital journalism is going up, the economics for original reporting has become i...

Big News Orgs Launch Major New Company

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 03.06.2012

The Associated Press and 28 news organizations, including The New York Times Co. and The Washington Post Co., are launching a company that will measur...

ABC Will Cover Casey Anthony Without Its Checkbook

Shelley Ross | Posted 10.03.2011

Shelley Ross

The high cost of paying for interviews has nothing to do with the amount of the check. One can only hope that CBS and NBC follow ABC News as they begin to show the world you can put the toothpaste back in the tube.

Ex-ABC News Chief's New Gig

AP | Posted 06.14.2011

NEW YORK -- The Associated Press is naming former ABC News President David Westin as CEO of an independent agency that aims to generate more revenue f...

The New Head Of ABC News

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — ABC has selected Ben Sherwood, a former producer of "Good Morning America" who left to write novels and start a website, as its news ...

ABC News President Resigns

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Story by David Bauder, Associated Press; Memos below obtained by Huffington Post NEW YORK — ABC News President David Westin, the longest-reigni...

New World News Tonight

Steve Proffitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Steve Proffitt

An exclusive sneak peak at what ABC's World News Tonight will look like after the News Division completes its transition to a leaner and meaner "digit...

Network News Chiefs: The Future's So Bright!

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011

Rory O'Connor

At the normally staid Council on Foreign Relations' 60th anniversary celebration of the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship, denial was the order of the day.

Charlie Gibson "Livid" Over Choice Of Diane Sawyer As Replacement: Report

Posted 05.25.2011

The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana reports that Charlie Gibson is "livid" over the choice of Diane Sawyer as his replacement on ABC's "World News." Dana ...

My Response To House Republicans' Criticism Of Our Upcoming Health Care Special

David Westin | Posted 05.25.2011

David Westin

Sadly, some see every issue as material for a sort of political high theatre. I would have thought that a subject as important as the health care received by the American people would rise above this sorry spectacle.

ABC's 'New Normal' is Old, GMA Hires Babe, Tango Anyone?

Mike Hegedus | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Hegedus

Now don't get me wrong, there's nothing the matter with hiring attractive folks to work on news broadcasts. In fact, it has been happening for decades now. But where has that gotten us?

David Westin, ABC News President, Writes WSJ Op-Ed: "'Free' Needn't Be the Enemy of 'Flow'"

Wall Street Jornal | David Westin | Posted 05.25.2011

The availability of timely, accurate news and information about what is going on around us is critical to a democratic society -- whether that informa...

ABC News Cutbacks: No Parties, No First Class, No

From New York Observer | Posted 05.25.2011

The New York Observer's Felix Gillette reports that ABC News will be instituting major cutbacks, including canceling their holiday parties, asking exe...

ABC Tells Media: You Can Only Use 30 Seconds Of Tonight's Debate

New York Times/TV Decoder | Brian Stelter | Posted 05.25.2011

Maybe Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton can sum up their policy differences in 30 seconds or less on Wednesday night. They will have to if they...

How ABC Landed This Week's David Petraeus Exclusive

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 05.25.2011

The television networks have spent the last few weeks in pursuit of an interview with Gen. David H. Petraeus, the United States commander in Iraq, ahe...