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On Friday, Erik Wemple -- a blogger for the Washington Post -- announced that the “renowned investigative reporter” Michael Isikoff was leaving the “Peacock Network” that day because “it was increasingly clear" that the news division “was moving in directions in which there were going to be fewer opportunities for my work,” Isikoff told the New York Times.
After 33 years, NBC investigative reporter Lisa Myers left
the network in January. In a statement later on Friday, Richard Esposito -- the
senior executive producer of the shrinking NBC News investigative unit --
praised Isikoff by asserting:
Michael has done terrific work for NBC News on stories ranging
from revealing which government official leaked the U.S. Stuxnet virus attack
on Iran’s nuclear program to a groundbreaking examination of the Obama
Administration drone strike program.
We’re grateful for all he’s done, and
wish him the very best.
Isikoff replied that “I had a good ride at NBC, and I’m glad
I did this. But it’s fair to say there was a mutual agreement that this was a
situation that was no longer working out.”
The reporter had been with the
left-wing television network since 2010. Before that, he spent more than a
decade with the Newsweek magazine, a time when Isikoff unwittingly contributed
to the rise of journalism on the Internet.
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