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Sanfuentes leaves top post at NBC

December 25, 2013 by Veronica Villafañe

Antoine SanfuentesAntoine Sanfuentes, Sr Vice President of News at NBC is leaving the company in the new year.  His last day is January 20, according to an email he sent staff on Monday.

“I grew up at NBC News and have been fortunate to learn every aspect of news reporting and production from the best in the business,” Sanfuentes wrote in the email.  “I am extremely proud to have played a role in NBC News’ successes, and I am excited about working on new challenges,” he wrote.

After Steve Capus resigned as President of NBC News in February of this year, there was some expectation that Antoine, whose entire career has been with NBC, would get promoted again and take over the network news division’s top job.

Although he had taken over Capus’ duties, he was passed over and in May, NBC hired Deborah Turness – a former editor of Britain’s ITV News.

At the time, a New York Times story assessed Turness’ hiring “suggests that NBCUniversal executives were yearning for new thinking.”

Sanfuentes started as a desk assistant in the Washington bureau of NBC News in 1990, right out of college. In 1995, he became a White House producer and later senior White House producer. After 14 years, he was named Deputy Washington bureau chief. He was promoted to Washington Bureau Chief in 2011, and to Senior Vice President a year later.

 

 

Filed Under: People, TV & Radio Tagged With: Antoine Sanfuentes, NBC News

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Most recently, a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

She is also a Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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