The Unbreakable Kim Godwin

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Welcome back to In The Room, my biweekly private email on the American media industry. Tonight, a look inside ABC News, the GMA3 fallout, and the somewhat exaggerated rumors of Kim Godwin’s defenestration. Plus, news and notes on the Don & Kaitlan show.

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The Unbreakable Kim Godwin

At last, the T.J. Holmes-Amy Robach fiasco has come to an end. And so have the industry murmurs about the future of ABC chief Kim Godwin. But a bigger curiosity is now coming into focus.

DYLAN BYERS

Late last Friday, shortly after ABC News announced that GMA3 anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach would be leaving the network, bringing an end to an elongated and salacious made-for-Page-Six spectacle regarding their extramarital affair, I received word about a rumor ricocheting through the news division. There was a widely held suspicion that Disney executives were considering relieving Kim Godwin, the ABC News chief, of her duties. The theory behind the speculation was that Godwin had fundamentally mismanaged a mini-scandal—that she’d moved indecisively in plotting Holmes and Robach’s punishment, which exacerbated a...

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