Al Jazeera America Names ABC's Kate O'Brian President

ABC News President Ben Sherwood sent a memo to the news division announcing that Senior V.P. Kate O’Brian will be the new President of Al Jazeera America. Unlike Politico, Sherwood doesn’t say the move is a testament to ABC. O’Brian started her career at ABC as a 20/20 intern. Sherwood gets pretty personal in the memo, saying, “I will miss the sound of her voice, urgent and measured, calling in the middle of the night, when news is breaking somewhere around the world.

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