NBC News has promoted Chloe Arensberg to Washington bureau chief. She’ll succeed Ken Strickland, who is himself being elevated to senior vice president of NBC News Editorial Operations; Strickland did the D.C. thing for a dozen years.Arensberg’s promotion makes NBC the only major television news operation in Washington, D.C. to have a woman bureau chief. Arensberg is no newbie to covering the federal government — she oversaw both federal indictments of President Trump for NBC News as well as the U.S. government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Strickland has been with NBC News for 30 years, including time spent at Dateline.
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