When is Ashleigh Banfield Joining ABC News: TV Newser?
Ashleigh Banfield will be joining ABC News next year, TVNewser reported Friday. Banfield rose to prominence on MSNBC during the early 2000s, but was cast aside after speaking out against the coverage of the Iraq War. She has been an anchor on Court TV/truTV since 2005, but Friday is her last day with the network. ABC News did not confirm the report, telling TVNewser simply, “We like Ashleigh Banfield and admire her work.” Banfield’s breakup with NBC News, where she was a rising star war correspondent and primetime anchor on MSNBC, was bitter. After a speech in which she was seen as criticizing NBC’s coverage of the war, she was publicly rebuked by NBC News executives and ostracized at the office, as she explained to a Connecticut magazine earlier this year: “I was office-less for ten months….No phone, no computer. For ten months I had to report to work every day and ask where I could sit. If somebody was away I could use their desk. Eventually, after ten months of this, I was given a
Ashleigh Banfield will be joining ABC News next year, TVNewser reported Friday. Banfield rose to prominence on MSNBC during the early 2000s, but was cast aside after speaking out against the coverage of the Iraq War. She has been an anchor on Court TV/truTV since 2005, but Friday is her last day with the network. ABC News did not confirm the report, telling TVNewser simply, “We like Ashleigh Banfield and admire her work.” Banfield’s breakup with NBC News, where she was a rising star war correspondent and primetime anchor on MSNBC, was bitter. After a speech in which she was seen as criticizing NBC’s coverage of the war, she was publicly rebuked by NBC News executives and ostracized at the office, as she explained to a Connecticut magazine earlier this year: “I was office-less for ten months….No phone, no computer. For ten months I had to report to work every day and ask where I could sit. If somebody was away I could use their desk. Eventually, after ten months of this, I was given a
ABC News did not confirm the report, telling TVNewser simply, “We like Ashleigh Banfield and admire her work.” Banfield’s breakup with NBC News, … Sources: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNG-8C_bUVkaF6tsIVxWdamSXTJ2AQ&sig2=g89CvIUEV7IT76D2aNF9BQ&cid=1469903777&ei=Tb7-SvCwKZP48QSkyt_4Ag&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2009%2F11%2F13%2Fashleigh-banfield-joining_n_357257.
