NBC News recently announced that half of the late Tim Russerts job had been filled.
Mark Whitaker has been named Washington bureau chief. Whitaker joined NBC last year as senior vice president of news and was editor of Newsweek from 1998 to 2006, the first black editor of a national news magazine.
As bureau chief, Whitaker will be in charge of Meet the Press as well as NBC News election and political coverage. However, as many others have erroneously reported, he will not be hosting the Sunday....
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