Banner exits 'World News,' stays at ABC

Longtime "World News" producer Jon Banner is departing this program for any new publish at ABC News. Effective Monday, Banner will end up senior professional producer, making them accountable for division-wide initiatives. He'll are accountable to Ben Sherwood, the Alphabet's news division topper. Sherwood is boosting Michael Corn from senior producer to professional producer, overtaking for Banner. "As senior producer from the broadcast, Michael has assisted lead our coverage of breaking news occasions all over the world, in the West Virginia mine disaster towards the Gulf oil spill to all the historic occasions this season,Inch Sherwood stated within an internal memo. Banner went this program throughout ten years that saw four anchor changes. When Diane Sawyer found this program from "Hello America" last year, she introduced Corn together with her, but Banner remained within the top place for an additional 2 yrs. With this particular appointment, the 3 network newscasts have drawn on new talent within their mind producer positions during the last four several weeks. Patricia Shevlin required over as professional producer of "CBS Evening News" when Scott Pelley required over for Katie Couric, succeeding Ron Kaplan and Patrick Burkey arrived Bob Epstein's place as professional producer of "NBC Nightly News" once the former was marketed. Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com