NBC News Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === 2007–2016 === [[File:NBC News 2013.svg|thumb|Previous 3D version of the 1986 NBC News logo, used from 2013 to 2023. The original 1986 logo remains in use for other NBC News programs and special reports, as well as digital and social media platforms.]] During the [[Financial crisis of 2007–2010|financial crisis of 2007–2008]], NBC News was urged to save $500 million by NBC Universal. On that occasion, NBC News laid off several of its in-house reporters such as [[Kevin Corke]], Jeannie Ohm and Don Teague. This was the largest layoff in NBC News history. After the sudden death of the influential moderator [[Tim Russert]] of ''[[Meet the Press]]'' in June 2008, [[Tom Brokaw]] took over as an interim host; and on December 14, 2008, [[David Gregory (journalist)|David Gregory]] became the new moderator of the show until August 14, 2014, when NBC announced that NBC News Political Director [[Chuck Todd]] would take over as the 12th moderator of [[Meet the Press]] starting September 7, 2014. David Gregory's last broadcast was August 10, 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chuck-todd-takes-helm-meet-press-n180916 |title=Chuck Todd Takes Helm of 'Meet the Press' |date=August 14, 2014 |publisher=NBC News |access-date=August 5, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711112836/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chuck-todd-takes-helm-meet-press-n180916 |archive-date=July 11, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/25145431/ns/politics/ |title=NBC's Tim Russert dead at 58 - politics |publisher=NBC News |date=June 14, 2008 |access-date=August 5, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709014741/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25145431/ns/politics |archive-date=July 9, 2015 }}</ref> By 2009, NBC had established leadership in network news, airing the highest-rated morning, evening, and Sunday interview news programs.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/business/media/09nbc.html|title=A Matrix of News Winners Buoys NBC|work=The New York Times|date=March 8, 2009|first1=Bill|last1=Carter|first2=Brian|last2=Stelter|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827132801/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/business/media/09nbc.html|archive-date=August 27, 2017}}</ref> Its ability to share costs with MSNBC and share in the cable network's advertising and subscriber revenue made it far more profitable than its network rivals.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/business/media/01network.html|title=Network News at a Crossroads|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 28, 2010|first1=Brian|last1=Stelter|first2=Bill|last2=Carter|page=B1|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414162150/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/business/media/01network.html|archive-date=April 14, 2017}}</ref> [[File:NBC Nightly News Broadcast.jpg|thumb|right|200px|NBC Nightly News broadcast, March 2008.]] On March 27, 2012, NBC News broadcast an edited segment from a 911 call placed by [[George Zimmerman]] before he [[Killing of Trayvon Martin|shot Trayvon Martin]]. The editing made it appear that Zimmerman volunteered that Martin was black, rather than merely responding to the dispatcher's inquiry, which would support a view that the shooting was racially motivated. A media watchdog organization accused NBC News of engaging in "an all-out falsehood." While NBC News initially declined to comment,<ref>{{cite web|first=Paul|last=Bond|title=NBC News Accused of Editing 911 Call in Trayvon Martin Controversy (Video)|url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/news/trayvon-martin-nbc-news-editing-911-call-306359|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=March 30, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331180746/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trayvon-martin-nbc-news-editing-911-call-306359|archive-date=March 31, 2012}}</ref> the news agency did issue an apology to viewers.<ref name=Zimmerman>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/nbc-issues-apology-on-zimmerman-tape-screw-up/2012/04/03/gIQA8m5jtS_blog.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=Erik|last=Wemple|title=NBC issues apology on Zimmerman tape screw-up|date=April 4, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118072141/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/nbc-issues-apology-on-zimmerman-tape-screw-up/2012/04/03/gIQA8m5jtS_blog.html|archive-date=November 18, 2017}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' called the statement "skimpy on the details on just how the mistake unfolded."<ref name=Zimmerman /> On December 13, 2012, NBC News reporter [[Richard Engel]] and his five crew members, Aziz Akyavaş, Ghazi Balkiz, John Kooistra, Ian Rivers and Ammar Cheikh Omar, were [[NBC News team kidnapping in Syria|kidnapped in Syria]]. Having escaped after five days in captivity, Engel said he believed that a [[Shabiha]] group loyal to [[Bashar al-Assad|al-Assad]] was behind the abduction, and that the crew was freed by the [[Ahrar al-Sham]] group five days later.<ref>{{citation |author1=[[Brian Stelter]] |author2=Sebnem Arsu |title=Richard Engel of NBC Is Freed in Syria |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/business/media/richard-engel-of-nbc-is-released-in-syria.html |date=December 18, 2012 |access-date=December 8, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106002812/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/business/media/richard-engel-of-nbc-is-released-in-syria.html |archive-date=November 6, 2015 }}</ref> Engel's account was however challenged from early on.<ref>{{cite web |author=Jamie Dettmer |title=Richard Engel's Kidnapping: A Behind the Scenes Look |work=[[The Daily Beast]] |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/22/richard-engel-s-kidnapping-a-behind-the-scenes-look.html |date=December 22, 2012 |access-date=December 8, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210203034/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/22/richard-engel-s-kidnapping-a-behind-the-scenes-look.html |archive-date=December 10, 2015 }}</ref> In April 2015, NBC had to revise the kidnapping account, following further investigations by ''[[The New York Times]]'', which suggested that the NBC team "was almost certainly taken by a Sunni criminal element affiliated with the [[Free Syrian Army]]," rather than by a loyalist [[Shia]] group.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Ravi Somaiya |author2=[[C. J. Chivers]] |author3=Karam Shoumali |work=The New York Times |title=NBC News Alters Account of Correspondent's Kidnapping in Syria |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/business/media/nbc-news-alters-account-of-correspondents-kidnapping-in-syria.html |date=April 15, 2015 |access-date=December 8, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160117073318/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/business/media/nbc-news-alters-account-of-correspondents-kidnapping-in-syria.html |archive-date=January 17, 2016 }}</ref> In 2013, John Lapinski was Director of Elections, replacing Sheldon Gawiser. In 2015, the election team's [[decision desk]] group was given its first permanent space at 30 Rockefeller, replacing the News Sales Archives that had occupied the space previously.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ariens|first1=Chris|title=NBC News Unveils Its First Permanent Decision Desk|url=http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/nbc-news-unveils-its-first-permanent-decision-desk/274832|work=AdWeek|date=October 15, 2015}}</ref> The NBC News Division was the first news team to possess the [[Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape|tape of Donald Trump recorded by ''Access Hollywood'']], after a producer of the NBC show had made the News Division aware of it; the News Division internally debated publishing it for three days, and then an unidentified source gave a copy of the tape to ''[[The Washington Post]]'' Reporter [[David Fahrenthold]], who contacted NBC for comment, notified the Trump campaign that he had the video, obtained confirmation of its authenticity, and released a story and the tape itself, scooping NBC.<ref name="Fernandez">{{cite news |url=http://people.com/politics/donald-trump-hot-mic-tape-leaked/ |title=This Is How the Hot Mic Tape of Donald Trump Was Leaked |last=Fernandez |first=Alexia |date=October 8, 2016 |publisher=People |access-date=October 9, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009114656/http://people.com/politics/donald-trump-hot-mic-tape-leaked/ |archive-date=October 9, 2016 }}</ref><ref name=Fahrenthold>{{Cite news |first=David A. |last=Fahrenthold |author-link=David Fahrenthold |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html |title=Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 7, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007201254/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html |archive-date=October 7, 2016 }}</ref><ref name=WP-LewdTape-RaceWasOn>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-caller-had-a-lewd-tape-of-donald-trump-then-the-race-was-on/2016/10/07/31d74714-8ce5-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html |title=A caller had a lewd tape of Donald Trump. Then the race to break the story was on. |last=Farhi |first=Paul |date=October 7, 2016 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=October 9, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008123118/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-caller-had-a-lewd-tape-of-donald-trump-then-the-race-was-on/2016/10/07/31d74714-8ce5-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html |archive-date=October 8, 2016 }}</ref> Alerted that the ''Post'' might release the story immediately,<ref name="WP-LewdTape-RaceWasOn" /> NBC News released its own story shortly after the ''Post'' story was published.<ref name="explain">{{Cite news |url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/10/donald-trump-comments-women-access-hollywood-229331 |title=Access Hollywood, Washington Post explain how they found the Donald Trump video |publisher=[[Politico]] blogs |access-date=October 8, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009114756/http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/10/donald-trump-comments-women-access-hollywood-229331 |archive-date=October 9, 2016 }}</ref><ref name=NYT2017>{{cite news|last1=Koblin|first1=John|title=How Did NBC Miss Out on a Harvey Weinstein Exposé?|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/business/media/nbc-news-harvey-weinstein.html?_r=0|work=The New York Times|date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112054234/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/business/media/nbc-news-harvey-weinstein.html?_r=0|archive-date=January 12, 2018}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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