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Kim Godwin, the president of ABC News, is leaving her position at the network, according to an internal memo sent to staff and obtained by The Daily Beast on Sunday night.
Her decision to step down comes three years after she was hired to head the network, a rocky tenure marred by scandals, missteps, and internal strife. The first Black woman appointed to run a national broadcast news network, Godwin had previously been a longtime presence at CBS News, where she’d ascended to become executive vice president.
Godwin said in her Sunday memo that she’d decided to “retire from broadcast journalism.
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