NBC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman said on Thursday that she is leaving the network. Her decision comes after a December scandal, in which she was criticized for breaking a voluntary Ebola quarantine.
After a photojournalist Snyderman was working with in Liberia tested positive for the deadly virus, Snyderman and her crew volunteered to be quarantined so they would not spread the virus. However, she was spotted in public by tabloids and was forced to apologize in December.
Today, Snyderman issued a statement, saying that she was going back to teaching at a medical school.
“Becoming part of the story upon my return to the U.S. contributed to my decision to return to academic medicine,” Snyderman said in the statement, notes The Los Angeles Times. “More needs to be done to communicate medicine and science to our viewers and citizens, especially in times of crisis, and with my experience in the field and on the air, that is going to be a priority for me.”
NBC News confirmed that snyderman is leaving and wished her the best in the future.
Of course, this comes as another blow to NBC News, which recently suspended NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams for six months without pay. The network’s news division now has a new chairman, Andrew Lack, who was previously NBC News President from 1993 to 2001.
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