After firing Matt Lauer, NBC execs try to control the damage

Noah Oppenheim met with NBC Nightly News staff members to tell them about recent conversations that took place between Lauer and NBC News executives

The top two executives at NBC News tried to quell any in-house suspicions on Friday concerning their handling of Matt Lauer, the longtime Today show star who was fired on Tuesday.
 
Their communications with staff members came after competing media organisations had expressed scepticism about the official NBC denial. The network had said on Wednesday that its executive ranks had not been aware of Lauer’s alleged sexual misconduct involving female colleagues until they had learned of a detailed complaint on Monday.
 
Noah Oppenheim, the news division’s president, met with NBC Nightly News staff members at their daily meeting