Former ABC News EP Defends Mimi Gurbst
Jessica Stedman Guff, once a senior producer for “Good Morning America” and later EP of World News NOW, has penned a letter to the editor of The New York Observer in defense of Mimi Gurbst, a retiring ABC News executive who was profiled in the paper last week. The profile itself was overshadowed by the comments in the online story — comments from some former co-workers who had nothing good to say about Gurbst.
Stedman Guff, who left ABC two years ago after more than 25 years with the network, writes, “I can no longer countenance the abuse of anonymity that has allowed others to cowardly malign her in perpetuity on the Internet.”
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