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NBC names David Gregory host of 'Meet the Press'
December 7, 2008
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK---- David Gregory's new job as moderator of �Meet the Press� is official with the announcement on the long-running NBC interview program that he will take over starting next Sunday.
The 38-year-old chief White House correspondent for NBC News was introduced Sunday by Tom Brokaw, fill-in moderator for �Meet the Press� since the death last June of Tim Russert, the program's moderator since 1991.
Gregory described it as �an incredible honor.�
Unconfirmed reports that Gregory would likely win the job surfaced last week. Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd and Gwen Ifill had also been under consideration.
�Meet the Press� dominates the Sunday morning political landscape and is network TV's longest-running series. It premiered in November 1947.