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| Brian Williams in talks with NBC to find a new role outside Nightly News – report | |
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| Related: NBC suspends Brian Williams for six months over Iraq helicopter story | |
| NBC is attempting to find a new role for Brian Williams, one of America’s most prominent television journalists, after suspending him for fabricating a story that he had come under fire on a helicopter during the Iraq war, CNN reported on Sunday. | |
| Williams and NBC are in the middle of “complex negotiations” about a possible role outside the Nightly News programme that he anchored before the scandal erupted earlier this year, CNN said on its website, citing unidentified sources. | |
| Neither Williams nor a representative of NBC could be reached immediately for comment. | |
| Williams, 56, who began anchoring NBC Nightly News in 2004, came under heavy scrutiny in late January after telling different versions of a story about being aboard a US military helicopter hit by a rocket-propelled grenade during the first days of the Iraq war in 2003. | |
| He was suspended without pay for six months after he voluntarily took himself off the air in February. NBC News launched an inquiry into his account of the event. | |
| According to CNN’s sources, NBC News chairman Andy Lack is in favor of a new role for Williams if he does not ultimately return to anchoring the nightly news programme. | |
| Sources told CNN Williams and NBC may also reach a financial settlement that would lead to him leaving the network. According to CNN, Williams signed a contract in 2014 with the network that was worth $10m a year for five years. |