NBC News Chief Steve Capus Is Out

Steve Capus

Steve Capus, the president of NBC News for the last eight years, said Friday that he is leaving the network news division in the coming weeks, according to Brian Stelter at Media Decoder.

“It has been a privilege to have spent two decades here, but it is now time to head in a new direction,” Mr. Capus wrote in an internal memo on Friday afternoon. “I have informed Pat Fili-Krushel that I will be leaving NBC News in the coming weeks.”

Media Decoder reports Capus’s exit has been rumored at the network ever since Comcast put Ms. Fili-Krushel in charge of all of NBC’s news assets six months ago.

Mr. Capus made no secret of his unhappiness with the restructuring, which meant that he no longer reported directly to the NBCUniversal chief executive, Steve Burke. His contract had a clause that allowed him to leave in the event that he no longer reported to Mr. Burke, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement at NBC.

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