NBC Fires Matt Lauer

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

NBC this morning announced the firing of journalist Matt Lauer, host of the popular morning show Today, for alleged sexual misconduct.

The announcement was made during the aforementioned program by Savannah Guthrie, who, accompanied by Hoda Kotb, said in a broken voice that she considered Lauer a "dear, dear friend."

"On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a co-worker about inappropriate sexual behavior at work from Matt Lauer," said a memo issued by NBC CEO Andy Lack. “This represented, after a thorough review, a clear violation of company policy. As a result, we have decided to terminate her contract.”

"Although this is the first complaint about his behavior in the twenty years that he has been on NBC News, it was also presented to us in a way that makes us believe that this was not something isolated," he continues.

"This is the first complaint we receive about his behavior the twenty years he has been with NBC News," the document continued. "And we were also presented with enough information to lead us to believe that this was not an isolated incident."

The news echoed in local media in the Big Apple, where the journalist resides. According to reports from PageSix.com, the incident that would have caused Lauer's departure appears to have occurred during the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia.

According to said source, the alleged victim - who has decided to remain anonymous - presented the complaint to Human Resources on Monday. "It all happened so fast. She did not resort to the media, she made the complaint with the NBC human resources department and her evidence was so convincing that Matt was fired on Tuesday night, "said a person close to the situation. "The victim says she has evidence that this also happened to other women, but so far we have no evidence of it."

Lauer, 59, was named a co-host of Today in 1997, three years after starting as one of the show's contributors.