By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated May 7, 2024
Kim Godwin, the first Black president of ABC News and “first Black woman to lead a network news division,” has announced she is retiring.
Over the course of her decades-long career, Godwin has worked “at ABC, CBS, NBC, and at 10 local news stations in nine cities.” In a memo sent to the ABC News newsroom on Sunday, Godwin wrote, “I have decided to