{"id":133747,"date":"2024-05-09T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T16:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133747"},"modified":"2024-05-09T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T16:58:50","slug":"kim-godwin-out-as-abc-news-president-after-3-years-as-first-black-woman-to-lead-network-news-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133747","title":{"rendered":"Kim Godwin Out As ABC News President After 3 Years As First Black Woman To Lead Network News Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-133739\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240506-kim-godwin-al-0730-60e05c-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240506-kim-godwin-al-0730-60e05c-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240506-kim-godwin-al-0730-60e05c-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240506-kim-godwin-al-0730-60e05c.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Kim Godwin<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"gmail-\">Kim Godwin is out after three tumultuous years as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/norah-odonnell-james-goldston-susan-zirinsky-5cef5ca01345c28598b73c1a308ea5ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News president<\/a>, a move presaged earlier this year when network parent Walt Disney Co. installed one of its executives,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/tv\/news\/abc-news-stations-under-debra-oconnell-1235911174\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debra OConnell<\/a>, to oversee the news division.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"gmail-\">Godwin, the first Black woman to lead a network news division, said Sunday she was retiring from the business. OConnell said she will be in charge \u201cfor the time being\u201d as it looks ahead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"gmail-\">Godwin inherited a news division where its two most important programs, \u201cWorld News Tonight\u201d and \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d led rivals at CBS and NBC in the ratings. They\u2019re still ahead, although \u201cGood Morning America\u201d has seen some slippage amid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/gma3s-tj-holmes-amy-robach-taken-air-permanently-romance-scandal-rcna60324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the\u00a0messy departures<\/a>\u00a0of anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-television-news-media-tv-bill-owens-940629c0a44198c1b7496aac7067818c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecilia Vega\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0jump to CBS News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Godwin Kim Godwin is out after three tumultuous years as\u00a0ABC News president, a move presaged earlier this year when network parent Walt Disney Co. installed one of its executives,\u00a0Debra OConnell, to oversee the news division. Godwin, the first Black woman to lead a network news division, said Sunday she was retiring from the business. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-government","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133749,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133747\/revisions\/133749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}