{"id":29703,"date":"2021-05-17T23:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=29703"},"modified":"2021-05-18T19:01:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T00:01:37","slug":"nexstar-hires-former-abc-news-exec-michael-corn-run-newsnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2021\/05\/17\/nexstar-hires-former-abc-news-exec-michael-corn-run-newsnation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nexstar hires former ABC News exec Michael Corn to run NewsNation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Michael Corn<\/p><\/div>\n

Michael Corn, former senior executive producer of \u201cGood Morning America\u201d and a 19-year veteran of ABC News, has been tapped to run NewsNation,<\/a> the Chicago-based cable news network, sources said Monday.<\/p>\n

At a staff meeting Tuesday Corn is expected to be introduced as president of NewsNation by parent company Nexstar Media Group. He will report to Sean Compton, president of Nexstar Networks.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Lyons<\/p><\/div>\n

The top job at NewsNation has been vacant since March when Jennifer Lyons abruptly resigned<\/a> as vice president of news.<\/p>\n

Lyons's departure along with two other news managers was believed to be tied to conflicts between the network\u2019s promise of impartiality and pressure to promote right-wing views. It followed the disclosure that Nexstar had retained Bill Shine, former Fox News senior executive and White House communications director for former President Donald Trump, as a consultant.<\/p>\n

In hiring Corn, Nexstar landed a seasoned and respected network news veteran who oversaw the top-rated \u201cGMA\u201d for seven years and earlier served as executive producer of ABC\u2019s top-rated \u201cWorld News Tonight\u201d with Diane Sawyer.<\/p>\n

Capping nearly two decades at ABC News, Corn resigned last month \u2014 one day after he was passed over for promotion to president. That job went to Kim Godwin, a former senior executive at CBS News.<\/p>\n

NewsNation previously disclosed plans to launch a five-hour morning show <\/a>later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Corn, former senior executive producer of \u201cGood Morning America\u201d and a 19-year veteran of ABC News, has been tapped to run NewsNation, the Chicago-based cable news network, sources said Monday. At a staff meeting Tuesday Corn is expected to be introduced as president of NewsNation by parent company Nexstar Media Group. He will report... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29703"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29716,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29703\/revisions\/29716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}