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The Kids Stay in the Picture

The TV news industry, amid its constant convulsions and endlessly complex transformation, bemoans the executives leading the charge.

Neeraj Khemlani speaks onstage during the Truth Seekers Summit on August 25, 2022. Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty.
Dylan Byers
December 10, 2022

Earlier this year, NBC News president Noah Oppenheim and his friend Eric Newman, a Hollywood writer and producer, sold a political thriller mini-series to Netflix. This wasn’t Oppenheim’s first foray in Hollywood. After an early career as a show producer across the various NBC news channels, Oppenheim had left 30 Rock in 2008 to pursue his ambitions as a screenwriter—co-writing a couple notable science fiction films before writing Jackie, the Camelot biopic that won him Best Screenplay at Venice.