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President Bashar Assad's first interview with a Western television journalist since a March uprising was a coup for Barbara Walters and ABC News, but not entirely for Assad.

Veteran journalist Ted Koppel is joining Brian Williams' newsmagazine on NBC. NBC announced Thursday that the longtime 'Nightline' anchor joins Harry Smith and Meredith Vieira as correspondents on 'Rock Center.' Since leaving ABC News in 2005, Koppel has done work for the Discovery Channel and NPR.

Elizabeth Smart says she accepted a job with ABC News partly because she feels the media helped save her life.

Elizabeth Smart is taking a job with ABC News as a commentator focusing on missing persons and child abduction cases.

Kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart will take up a role as a contributor for ABC News, The Daily Beast reported late Wednesday.

NYU's Langone Medical Center is getting a jump on that whole 21st-century medical care thing by ditching the clipboards and paperwork for palm scans and digital databases.

The former New York Jets game hostess who allegedly received inappropriate photos and phone messages from Brett Favre says in an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that she isn't a "gold-digger" and hasn't "made a dime" off the scandal.

ABC News says the top executive behind "Good Morning America" is leaving. ABC News President Ben Sherwood said Wednesday that Jim Murphy, senior executive producer of the show, is becoming executive producer of Anderson Cooper's new syndicated talk show.

ABC has selected Ben Sherwood, a former producer of "Good Morning America" who left to write novels and start a website, as its news division president.

In this undated file publicity photo released by ABC, Diane Sawyer is shown on the ABC News set in New York.