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Noah Oppenheim
Born1977 or 1978 (age 46–47)[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationA.B. Harvard University
Occupation(s)Journalist, television producer, author, screenwriter
Known forPresident of NBC News

Noah Oppenheim (born 1977 or 1978)[1] is an American journalist, television producer, author, and screenwriter. He became president of NBC News in 2017.[2] Previously, Oppenheim was the executive in charge and senior producer of NBC's Today Show, where he supervised the 7–8am hour of the broadcast, and head of development at the production company Reveille.[3][4]

Early life

Oppenheim was born to a Jewish family.[1] He attended The Gregory School in Tucson, Arizona, and served as an editor and writer for the school newspaper, the Gregorian Chant.[5]. After high school, Oppenheim graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2000. While attending Harvard, Oppenheim was Editorial Chair of the Harvard Crimson from 1996 to 2000.

Career

Writing

In 2016, Oppenheim won the Best Screenplay Award at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival for writing Jackie.[6]

Oppenheim wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of James Dashner's young adult, science-fiction, dystopian, fantasy novel, The Maze Runner.[7] He also wrote the screenplay for The Divergent Series: Allegiant, a film in the Divergent film franchise.[8] Oppenheim is co-author with David Kidder of the Rodale Press series The Intellectual Devotional. One of the volumes was 8th on The New York Times list of hard-cover political bestselllers in November 2007.[9]

Television

CNBC/MSNBC

Oppenheim co-created CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer,[10] was executive producer of Scarborough Country, and senior producer of Hardball with Chris Matthews.[11] In 2003, as executive producer at MSNBC, Oppenheim was sent to Baghdad to assess whether the negative media coverage of the Iraq War was justified, and published what was later described as "a devastating critique on the behavior and practices of reporters from the mainstream outlets" there.[12] In January 2015 Oppenheim was appointed a senior vice president and given control of the Today Show; he had worked as a senior producer for the show from 2005 until 2008.[13]

NBC News

Oppenheim was made president of NBC News in February 2017.[14] Later that year, it was Oppenheim's idea to put Ronan Farrow on the story about the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations, which were credited with starting the Me Too movement; NBC News ultimately, however, failed to publish it, a decision Farrow blamed on Oppenheim.[15] Farrow took the story to the The New Yorker which published it after the New York Times broke the story.[16][17]

The NBC News organization and Oppenheim were criticized for not publishing the Weinstein story, criticism that intensified when news broke of the sexual harassment claims against Matt Lauer.[14][18] Ronan Farrow later said that Oppenheim played a major role in refusing to allow NBC News to report on those allegations in 2017. Other accounts of contemporary discussions within NBC News are consistent with Oppenheim preventing NBC journalists from reporting on Weinstein.[15] Oppenheim denied that NBC hid the Matt Lauer accusations over the years and calls Farrow's book a "smear" though many on his staff remain skeptical. [19] Farrow also reported that NBC News hired a "Wikipedia whitewasher" who removed references to NBC's role in the Weinstein case from several Wikipedia articles, including Oppenheim's.[20]

Additionally, as articles and opinion pieces Oppenheim wrote while attending Harvard resurface, concerns have been raised about the culture Oppenheim is cultivating at NBC and whether it is accommodating to female employees.[21][22] He has been accused of self-dealing by repeatedly promoting children's books co-authored by his wife on the Today Show.[23]

Personal life

Oppenheim is married to Allison Oppenheim.[24][25]

References

  1. ^ a b c Jewish Community Centers and Federation of Tampa: "Jews in the News: Kirk Douglas, Natalie Portman and Max Cassella" by Nate Bloom. December 5, 2016
  2. ^ Battaglio, Stephen. "'Today' show executive Noah Oppenheim is named president of NBC News". latimes.com. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
  3. ^ Steel, Emily (2015-01-16). "NBC Names a 'Today' Veteran to Lead the Show". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  4. ^ Adalian, Josef (2015-01-16). "NBC Finds New Today Show Boss". New York Magazine. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  5. ^ Gregory alumni
  6. ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (September 10, 2016). "Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion To 'The Woman Who Left'; Tom Ford's 'Nocturnal Animals', Emma Stone Take Major Prizes – Full List". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  7. ^ Jr, Mike Fleming (2016-09-16). "Rising Star 'Jackie' Screenwriter Noah Oppenheim Also Runs NBC's 'Today'? How Did That Happen?". Deadline. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  8. ^ "'Divergent' Threequel 'Allegiant' Taps 'Maze Runner' Writer (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  9. ^ "Poli-Book Best Sellers for November" By Orville Buddo November 26, 2007 The New York Times [1] Accessed Sept 5, 2019
  10. ^ Oppenheim at Today
  11. ^ Moraes, Lisa de (2015-01-16). "Noah Oppenheim Named 'Today' Show Chief". Deadline. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  12. ^ Britt, Thomas W.; Adler, Amy B.; Castro, Carl Andrew (2006). Military Life: Military culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 187–. ISBN 978-0-275-98304-8. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  13. ^ Steel, Emily (2015). "NBC Names a 'Today' Veteran to Lead the Show". The New York Times.
  14. ^ a b Marcin, Tim (29 November 2017). "In the wake of the Matt Lauer firing, meet NBC News president Noah Oppenheim". Newsweek.
  15. ^ a b Nast, Condé. ""Stand Down": Ronan Farrow's Producer on How NBC Killed Its Weinstein Story". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  16. ^ Koblin, John (11 October 2017). "How Did NBC Miss Out on a Harvey Weinstein Exposé?". The New York Times.
  17. ^ Guthrie, Marisa (October 11, 2017). "Why Ronan Farrow's Harvey Weinstein Bombshell Did Not Run on NBC". The Hollywood Reporter.
  18. ^ Koblin, John (1 December 2017). "After Firing Matt Lauer, NBC Executives Move to Control the Damage". The New York Times.
  19. ^ Tani, Maxwell. "NBC News Chief Unleashes on Ronan Farrow in New Staff Memo". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  20. ^ Farhi, Paul. "Ronan Farrow overcame spies and intimidation to break some of the biggest stories of the #MeToo era", The Washington Post, October 10, 2019.
  21. ^ Cartwright, Lachlan, Andrew Kirell, and Maxwell Tani. "NBC News Chief Noah Oppenheim’s Harvard Writings on Women and Sexual Assault Horrify Staffers", The Daily Beast, October 11, 2019.
  22. ^ Oppenheim, Noah. Considering 'Women's Issues' at Harvard,The Harvard Crimson,December 17,1999.
  23. ^ Grove, Lloyd. "'Disgusting': NBC Staffers Furious About News Chief Noah Oppenheim's Self-Dealing". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
  24. ^ Leitereg, Neal J. (3 April 2015). "'Today' chief Noah Oppenheim lists Westside place for lease". Los Angeles Times.
  25. ^ Corbett, Sue (2 June 2017). "BookExpo 2017: Rethinking Royal Garb: Savannah Guthrie & Allison Oppenheim". Publishers Weekly.
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