David Westin To Exit As President Of ABC News

David Westin

ABC News Pres. DAVID WESTIN has announced his resignation to the staff in an e-mail sent MONDAY (9/6).  WESTIN, who joined ABC NEWS on MARCH 6, 1997, will depart his post at the end of the year.

In the e-mail, WESTIN said that he had informed network CEO BOB IGER and DISNEY-ABC TELEVISION GROUP President ANNE SWEENEY a month ago that he would be exiting and added, "Leading you has been a great privilege and a solemn responsibility -- a responsibility that I tried to fulfill for over 13 years by doing what I believed was best for this important news organization.  I will root for your continued success long after I am gone."

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