{"id":718429,"date":"2026-04-10T15:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/718429\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:58:15","slug":"abc-news-announces-shake-up-at-george-stephanopoulos-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/718429\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC News announces shake-up at George Stephanopoulos\u2019 ‘This Week’"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC News is tapping insider Jon Schlosberg to run its flagship Sunday<\/a> show \u201cThis Week with George Stephanopoulos,\u201d installing a streaming-era producer at the helm of its top political program.<\/p>\n

Schlosberg moves into the job after a five-year stint as senior producer of \u201cPrime with Linsey Davis,\u201d ABC News Live\u2019s flagship streaming newscast.<\/p>\n

Schlosberg will be based in Washington, DC, and takes over the role beginning May 6. He will work with anchor Stephanopoulos alongside co-anchors Martha Raddatz and Jonathan Karl.<\/p>\n

George Stephanopoulos, anchor of ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d will soon have a new executive producer. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Schlosberg joined ABC News in 2018 as a producer and helped launch its 24\/7 streaming platform, ABC News Live, as the network pushed deeper into digital news.<\/p>\n

Before that, he worked at ABC-owned station KGO-TV in San Francisco and WVUE-TV in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

His credits at the network span election cycles, presidential debates and major international conflicts, including coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Gaza fighting.<\/p>\n

Schlosberg has also picked up major industry honors<\/a>, including a duPont-Columbia Award<\/a>, an Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow Award tied to ABC\u2019s climate coverage.<\/p>\n

\u201cJon is a tenacious journalist and exceptional leader<\/a> who has been instrumental across the ABC News Group for more than a decade, bringing precision, creativity and integrity to some of the most consequential stories of our time,\u201d Rick Klein, the Washington bureau chief for ABC News, said in a statement. <\/p>\n

Schlosberg will report to Klein.<\/p>\n

Jon Schlosberg has been named executive producer of ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d stepping into the role after serving as a senior producer on the network\u2019s streaming platform. ABC News<\/p>\n

\u201cHis sharp political instincts, deep experience in linear as well as streaming television, and proven ability to build winning teams make him exactly the right person to lead \u2018This Week\u2019 into its next chapter,\u201d Klein said.<\/p>\n

The Post has sought comment from ABC News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Week\u201d has been the subject of legal scrutiny in recent years, most notably a high-profile defamation suit filed by President Trump.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Karl is among the rotating anchors on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d which Schlosberg will now oversee as executive producer. ABC<\/p>\n

During a March 2024 interview, Stephanopoulos repeatedly said Trump had been \u201cfound liable for rape,\u201d prompting a lawsuit from the then-former president, who argued the characterization was inaccurate.<\/p>\n

A federal judge allowed the case to proceed, raising the stakes for ABC News and its parent, the Walt Disney Company.<\/p>\n

The dispute was ultimately resolved in a settlement that required ABC<\/a> to make a $15 million charitable contribution, pay $1 million in legal fees and publish an editor\u2019s note expressing regret over the statements.<\/p>\n

The Post reported that Stephanopoulos made the \u201crape\u201d reference <\/a>despite being repeatedly warned by his executive producer not to use the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC News is tapping insider Jon Schlosberg to run its flagship Sunday show \u201cThis Week with George Stephanopoulos,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":718430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[8811,10509,64,7299,171,27595,398,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-718429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-abc","tag-abc-news","tag-business","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-george-stephanopoulos","tag-media","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116381241501443942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}