More than half of America (52 percent) says Brian Williams should return to his anchor slot at NBC's "Nightly News," according to a CNN/ORCpoll.
Four-in-ten respondents say "no way," Eight percent have no opinion about Williams, who was suspended for six months after falsely claiming his helicopter took a hit in Iraq.
The poll was taken Feb. 12-15.
Meanwhile, Williams' replacement Lester Holt has watched his audience shrink to 9.4M, according to the latest numbers from Nielsen.
ABC's "World News" has an audience of 9M, while CBS's "Evening News" checked in at 7.6M.
Williams' averaged 10.2M viewers during the week of Feb. 2, which was just before his exit.
NBC is currently reviewing Williams' reporting.
Trump Media & Technology Group today reported a $58.2M net loss on $4.1M in 2023 revenues, a disclosure that drove its stock price down 22.6 percent to $47.96.
Barry Pollack, an attorney at Wall Street’s Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler, has registered Julian Assange as a client with the Justice Dept. “out of an abundance of caution.”
Paramount Global to slash 800 jobs in what chief executive Bob Bakish calls part of an effort to “return the company to earnings growth"... Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman is exiting at the end of the month due to disagreements with chief executive Gus Wenner over the direction the magazine is taking... The New York Times broke the $1 billion barrier in annual revenue from digital subscriptions in 2023... Press Forward is investing more than $500 million to strengthen local newsrooms.
The majority of news articles are read within the first three days of publication, according to a recent report.
The Los Angeles Times gives pink slips to 115 people or 20 percent of its newsroom staff... TIME is also laying off about 30 employees, which is approximately 15 percent of its editorial staff... The Baltimore Banner, which was launched by Stewart Bainum in 2022 after he failed to buy the Baltimore Sun, added 500 subscribers per day in the three days following Sinclair Broadcast Group's deal to purchase the Sun.
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