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Are You There, Godwin?

ABC News’s latest front in the ego management wars.

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A possibly ill-advised sit-down interview has opened up criticisms of ABC News president Kim Godwin’s leadership style. Photo: Monica Schipper/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
March 17, 2023

Disney C.E.O. Bob Iger and his entertainment chief Dana Walden were in Europe on Thursday when Vanity Fair published its sit-down interview with Kim Godwin, the president of ABC News. Walden had approved the interview, which came at the request of the journalist Charlotte Klein, sources familiar with the matter told me, but she likely didn’t anticipate the strange detour it would take.