Kim Godwin has prolonged her deal to stay as president of ABC Information.
The announcement was made shortly after Disney introduced that Debra OConnell was being elevated to a newly created position as president, Information Group and Networks, Disney Leisure, including ABC Information to her purview that features the ABC Owned Tv Stations and P&L tasks throughout the Disney multiplatform linear leisure networks. Godwin, together with Chad Matthews, experiences to OConnell, including a further layer of reporting construction between her and Dana Walden, co-chairman, Disney Leisure.
“To formally be part of ABC Information with our owned tv stations, working with Chad Matthews and beneath Debra’s management, will enable us to raised amplify the unimaginable work all of us produce every day,” Godwin wrote in a be aware to staffers. “Debra and I’ve collaborated during the last couple of years, and she or he is a devoted chief who all the time champions the very best in journalism.”
Godwin joined ABC Information in 2021. Though the community nonetheless tops within the scores with Good Morning America and World Information Tonight, Godwin has presided over some tumult. That included the departure of T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach final 12 months from GMA3, amid a tabloid scandal over their off-screen romantic relationship, in addition to a collection of layoffs final 12 months, when Godwin realigned her management staff. In current days there was some buzz about her future on the community.
Extra to come back.
Godwin’s memo to staffers is beneath:
Good afternoon ABC Information,
Nearly three years in the past, I used to be supplied the unimaginable alternative to tackle the management of ABC Information and it’s been nothing in need of monumental, working alongside all of you. I used to be honored then to tackle stewardship of essentially the most trusted model in information and I’m much more honored now to proceed within the position of president, ABC Information.
To formally be part of ABC Information with our owned tv stations, working with Chad Matthews and beneath Debra’s management, will enable us to raised amplify the unimaginable work all of us produce every day. Debra and I’ve collaborated during the last couple of years, and she or he is a devoted chief who all the time champions the very best in journalism.
At ABC Information, we have now already launched key editorial initiatives and rising companies, together with “Impression x Nightline” and ABC Information Studios which has catapulted from 11 hours of programming to over 130 hours of breakout success. And we’ve established ABC Information Reside and “Prime with Linsey Davis” firmly on the map.
Due to all of you, we have now acquired numerous awards and nominations together with our first Primetime Emmy nods, two Peabody Awards and three duPont-Columbia Awards, simply to call a number of. And I am additionally proud that we have now recruited and appointed an unprecedented variety of individuals of colour to proceed to diversify our newsroom, bureaus, reveals and executives. That is vital to our success.
I need to thank Dana for her assist and I additionally need to thank all of YOU for your arduous work, concepts and tenacity.
There’s extra work to be executed. Now let’s get to it.
Kim
OConnell additionally despatched out a memo on Godwin’s renewal.
Hello everybody,
I’d wish to take this chance to share how excited I’m to be bringing ABC Information, the ABC Owned Stations and our Networks groups collectively as one group. ABC Information is absolutely the BEST within the enterprise, and we have now the scores to again it up.
I’ve been lucky to work with Kim over the previous couple of years, and it’s a testomony to her outstanding management that ABC Information remains to be the No. 1 information community within the nation. The world-class reporting your complete Information staff delivers every day is actually distinctive. That’s why I’m happy to share that Kim has renewed her contract and can proceed as president of ABC Information.
The inner alignment we introduced in the present day is a crucial and strategic transfer for our firm and a strong assertion to the trade. Collectively, we stand prepared to satisfy our audiences the place, when and the way they select to interact with us, and we’ll use our many platforms to construct on our momentum. We have now an extended and proud historical past of superserving our viewers and communities, and as we glance to the long run, this stays our highest precedence.
Over the approaching days and weeks, we’ll have alternatives to attach on a extra significant degree. Till then, please know I’ve the utmost respect for what you do and I’m thrilled about our prospects forward.
I’m particularly grateful to Dana Walden for persevering with to position her belief in me. And, I need to thank all of you on your arduous work, excellence and dedication.
With appreciation,
Debra
