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Article: Brinkley Decides To End an Era; Newsman to Step Down As `This Week' Moderator
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- The Washington Post
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- October 17, 1996
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David Brinkley, a giant of television news over the past three
decades, announced yesterday he is stepping down as moderator of
ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley" after the Nov. 10 edition.
The broadcast will mark the 15th anniversary of the public
affairs series, which was created for Brinkley when he joined ABC in
1981. That move followed a pioneering 38-year career at NBC News
that included a famous 14-year partnership with the late Chet
Huntley on the weeknight "Huntley-Brinkley Report" and made
Brinkley, one of the medium's first newsmen, a Washington
institution.
Brinkley, 76, said he is not leaving the Sunday show, and will
continue with an expanded version of his current ...