The Revolving Door

TVNewser has learned ABC News correspondent Terry McCarthy is leaving the network for a job at CBS News. In an email to colleagues, obtained by TVNewser, McCarthy writes, "Has been a lot of fun working with you all over the past three years, even as our industry is changing so quickly all around us. Who knows where we will all be in the next three years!"

McCarthy was ABC's principal Iraq correspondent. He has reported extensively overseas, from China, India and other parts of the Middle East. Before ABC, McCarthy worked for Time magazine in Los Angeles. It was former ABCer, now CBS's VP for talent and development Barbara Fedida who helped McCarthy transition from print to TV three years ago.

He'll be based at the CBS News bureau in Los Angeles but continue to
cover international news.

> Update, Monday AM: The CBS press release is after the jump...

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Insiders tell TVNewser CNBC correspondent Margaret Brennan is leaving the network to take an anchor job at BloombergTV.

Brennan has been a correspondent with CNBC since 2006. She joined the network as a producer for Louis Rukeyser. She wrote, researched and booked guests for the weekly "Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street" and later worked as a producer on "Street Signs with Ron Insana."

"For several years, I've reported on the changes sweeping our newsrooms," writes ShopTalk/TVSPY.com editor Tom Petner today. "No one is immune. No job is 'safe'...including mine."

Petner's full-time editing job is being eliminated to cut costs, according to former MSNBC President Erik Sorenson, CEO of ShopTalk/TVSPY parent company Vault.com. He says "it is not a decision I am taking lightly because [Tom] has been terrific..."

Instead, Petner's "duties will be spread around to an internal team", with Andrew Gauthier as "point man", effective next Monday. Sorenson says he contemplated selling TVSPY, ShopTalk, and message boards Water Cooler and Sandbox. "But...I've decided to keep it all going but with a lower cost base."

Our search for a new TVNewser editor has also led us to a new top editor for WebNewser. Starting today, David Cohen joins the mediabistro.com blog network as editor of WebNewser.com. David comes to us with more than 13 years of experience at Reed Business including serving in several editorial roles at Multichannel News. Most recently, David was deputy editor of digital media for Multichannel and its sister publication Broadcasting & Cable.

He'll bring a wealth of reporting experience and analytical insight to this growing news site which covers the convergence of old and new media -- The News about Web News.

And if nothing else, the guy's persistent -- he sat through the 5 1/2 hour rain delay at Yankee Stadium the other night.

Mark Effron, who for four years was MSNBC's VP of daytime programming, is heading to WNYC and Public Radio International to be the Executive Producer of 'The Takeaway,' the national morning drive news program. After leaving MSNBC in 2006, Effron was president and COO of Titan TV.

The Takeaway, is hosted by one-time NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host John Hockenberry. It is a co-production of Public Radio International and WNYC Radio, in editorial collaboration with The BBC World Service, The New York Times, and WGBH Boston Radio.

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Mark Lukasiewicz has been named Vice President of NBC News Specials and Digital Media. For the last several years, Lukasiewicz has headed up NBC News' digital efforts and now takes on the additional responsibility of overseeing Specials across all the NBC News platforms. Lukasiewicz was the EP of the recent "Inside the Obama White House" special on NBC.

Lukasiewicz joined NBC News as Executive Producer in October, 2000. Prior to NBC, he was a producer at ABC News for shows including "Prime Time Live," and "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," and he was EP of "Good Morning America."

The NBC News Specials unit was previously run by Phil Alongi who left NBC earlier this year.

After the jump, a TVNewser interview with Lukasiewicz at this year's CES...

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First on TVNewser: Peter Doocy, son of Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy, has joined FNC as a general assignment reporter.

He will be based in the New York bureau.

Doocy, who graduated in May, previously worked at FNC-partner site The Palestra as a student reporter.

He also showed up on MSNBC last April asking Sen. John McCain a question during the Hardball College Tour.

CBS News has hired Terrell Brown as a correspondent in its News Development Program. Brown, who joins CBS from NBC affiliate WWBT in Richmond, VA, will provide reports for all CBS News platforms under the NDP which is designed to develop producers and correspondents into the next generation of CBS News journalists.

"Terrell Brown is a promising young journalist already distinguishing himself as an aggressive reporter with a compelling on air presence," said CBS News & Sports President Sean McManus.

More in the press release after the jump...

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It was just announced by MSNBC president Phil Griffin that Shannon High, brought in to MSNBC in October 2007, is moving from her role as VP of dayside to EP of the Dylan Ratigan show and the Dr. Nancy Snyderman show. High will keep her title of VP and work to develop new shows for the network, reporting to Griffin.

19-year NBC veteran Yvette Miley joins MSNBC next week as Executive Editor overseeing editorial content, including breaking news and weekend coverage. She too will report to Griffin. Yvette joins from NBC's South Florida station WTVJ where she was VP of news.

Interestingly, High also joined MSNBC from South Florida where she'd been VP of News at WFOR/WBFS.

The Ratigan show, airing from 9-11amET and Dr. Snyderman's show, airing at NoonET, both debut on June 29 on MSNBC.

Click continued to see Griffin's note...

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TVNewser hears that Ilana Drimmer is leaving her full-time booking job at ABC's "This Week" and heading to a part-time position for NBC's "Meet the Press." Drimmer had been with the ABC show for eight years and was looking for a role that would allow her to spend more time with her family.

Drimmer begins with "Meet" next week.

> Update: The email from Meet the Press EP Betsy Fischer after the jump, which also includes the news of the promotion of Chris Donovan to producer.

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