NBC launches internal investigation on Brian Williams

NBC anchor Brian Williams&#039;s credibility has been called into question recently

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published 6 February 2015

NBC announced Friday that it is launching an investigation into news anchor Brian Williams following the fallout from his admitting that his helicopter did not come under fire in Iraq in 2003, as he claimed on air multiple times. In a memo to staff, NBC News President Deborah Turness said that the network put together "a team dedicated to gathering the facts to help us make sense of all that has transpired."

Some critics have called for Williams' resignation, saying that his credibility has been permanently damaged, while others raised doubts about the accuracy of his reporting during Hurricane Katrina.

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Samantha Rollins is TheWeek.com's news editor. She has previously worked for The New York Times and TIME and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.