Weeks After Matt Lauer Is Ousted, ‘Today’ Changes Show’s Top Producer<br />NBC said on Wednesday that Don Nash, the show’s executive producer since 2012, would leave<br />and would be succeeded by Libby Leist, a veteran “Today” producer with deep ties to Washington and a strong working relationship with Savannah Guthrie, a co-anchor.<br />So it was verbal sexual harassment.”<br />In a memo to staff members, Andrew Lack, the chairman of NBC News, praised Mr. Nash for helping stabilize “Today”<br />and for being “one of the best live control room producers in the business.”<br />“We’ve offered him a number of roles within NBC News and NBCUniversal, and we hope he’ll stay in the family,” Mr<br />Some people in the television industry have asked whether the NBC show’s rise reflects early interest in the post-Lauer<br />era at “Today” — Hoda Kotb was named as his permanent replacement this month — or whether it signals a long-term shift.<br />Shortly before Mr. Nash’s departure was announced, the former “Today” anchor Ann Curry appeared on “CBS This Morning”<br />and discussed the issue of harassment at her former professional home.<br />Seven weeks after Matt Lauer was ousted from NBC’s “Today” amid allegations of sexual misconduct, there has been another shake-up at the morning show.
