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NEW YORK -- There may be no better predictor that NBC News is about to declare an election's winner than the face of political director Chuck Todd. Twice in two weeks, Todd was brought onto MSNBC to explain why NBC News hadn't declared a winner in a presidential primary when other news outlets had -- only to be interrupted by the network making its projection.

It's double-duty for NBC's Lester Holt. The co-anchor of the weekend edition of "Today" will also now anchor the Saturday and Sunday editions of "NBC Nightly News," the network announced Wednesday.

NBC News has tapped Mark Whitaker, the former editor of Newsweek, to be the news division's second-in-command executive, officials announced Tuesday.

NBC's decision to broadcast portions of Seung-hui Cho's angry rants triggered a storm of condemnation Thursday from viewers and victims' relatives, illuminating the treacherous middle ground between exposure and exploitation in a fast-moving news cycle.

The oversized U.S. Postal Service envelope was addressed simply to "NBC," and might have been overlooked in the jumble of mail flooding into the television network's Rockefeller Center headquarters Wednesday if a sharp-eyed mail carrier hadn't noticed the return address: "Blacksburg, Va.

NBC officials Monday named Alexandra Wallace, the No. 2 executive in the news division, as the new executive producer of "NBC Nightly News." The move comes as ABC's "World News" has strongly challenged the top-ranked evening newscast in recent weeks.

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has agreed to stay at the cable news network for four more years in a deal that gives him a broader role at NBC News, network executives said Thursday.

NBC News said Monday that its reporters and anchors would begin referring to the ongoing sectarian strife in Iraq as a "civil war," a move that reflects the news media's use of increasingly stark language to characterize the escalating violence gripping the country.