Steve Capus Out at NBC News

'New direction' for longtime division president

NBC News president Steve Capus on Friday announced that he is leaving the network.

In a memo issued to staffers, Capus said that while it is “an extremely difficult decision to walk away from [NBC News],” it was “time to head in a new direction.”

A 20-year NBC News veteran, Capus has served as the head of the division since November 2005. His tenure literally began on a stormy note, as he took the reins from longtime president Neal Shapiro during the week after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast.

“Jeff Zucker asked me to take over the leadership of NBC News…and I soon found myself in a helicopter with [former NBCU chairman] Bob Wright flying over the flooded Ninth Ward as people were still being plucked off their rooftops,” Capus recalled in his farewell memo.

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