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ABC News President David Westin is leaving his job after 14 years. A corporate mandate to increase his division's profitability apparently conflicted with his own commitment to high-prestige journalism.

Diane Sawyer's first night as host of Disney Co.'s ABC World News Tonight was greeted by a lot of fanfare about how little fanfare greeted it. The critics seem to agree that ABC now has an "understated" and "smooth" anchor in the evening news chair.

At some point on Thursday, ABC News will announce that George Stephanopoulos will replace Diane Sawyer as the co-host of Good Morning America when Sawyer becomes the anchor of World News Tonight. If you have trouble picturing the former Clinton aide and current host of This Week as a chatty, bubbly...

Talking about winners in the evening news game is a little like talking about the luckiest slot-machine addicts: the long-term odds do not work in their favor, no matter how far they're up at any given moment. But setting aside the quarter-century slide in aggregate audience, the succession of...

The generational shift in nightly news continues. Charles Gibson is stepping down as anchor of World News Tonight at the end of the year, yielding his role on the second place network news broadcast to Diane Sawyer, his former Good Morning America co-host. Gibson has anchored World News since May...