Steve Capus, the president of NBC News for the last eight years, said Friday that he is leaving the network news division in the coming weeks.
“It has been a privilege to have spent two decades here, but it is now time to head in a new direction,†Mr. Capus wrote in an internal memo on Friday afternoon. “I have informed Pat Fili-Krushel that I will be leaving NBC News in the coming weeks.â€
Mr. Capus’s exit has been rumored at the network ever since Comcast put Ms. Fili-Krushel in charge of all of NBC’s news assets six months ago.
Mr. Capus called it an “extremely difficult decision to walk away.†He started at NBC as a producer 20 years ago this month.
