Noah Oppenheim was born on 1977 or 1978 and is an American television producer, author, and screenwriter.
17 Facts About Noah Oppenheim
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Noah Oppenheim stepped down as president of NBC News in January 2023 and entered into a film and TV production agreement with NBCUniversal.
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Noah Oppenheim was born to a Jewish family, the son of Marcia and Jay Noah Oppenheim.
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Noah Oppenheim attended The Gregory School in Tucson, Arizona, and served as an editor and writer for the school newspaper, the Gregorian Chant.
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Noah Oppenheim started his television career at MSNBC in 2001 as a senior producer on Hardball with Chris Matthews.
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Noah Oppenheim then became the executive producer of Scarborough Country when it launched in 2003.
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Later in 2003, Noah Oppenheim wrote an op-ed criticizing the media's coverage of the Iraq War.
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Noah Oppenheim left MSNBC in 2004, returning NBC News in 2005, where he helped create CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer, and worked as the senior producer of The Today Show until 2008.
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In 2008, Noah Oppenheim joined Los Angeles entertainment group Reveille as its vice president of development.
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Noah Oppenheim oversaw development of various television shows including The Buried Life and It's On with Alexa Chung Noah Oppenheim left in 2010.
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In December 2021, Noah Oppenheim said competition was intensifying to become the preferred new streaming service as consumer habits shifted toward dedicated streaming platforms.
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Noah Oppenheim has been accused of self-dealing by repeatedly promoting children's books co-authored by his wife on the Today Show.
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On January 11,2023, NBC said that Noah Oppenheim would be stepping down as president of NBC News and had entered into a film and TV production agreement with NBCUniversal.
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Ronan Farrow later said that Noah Oppenheim played a major role in refusing to allow NBC News to report on those allegations in 2017.
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Noah Oppenheim denied Farrow's claim and said that the reason NBC News chose not to report on the story was that the available evidence did not meet their journalistic standards.
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However, other accounts of contemporary discussions within NBC News are consistent with Noah Oppenheim preventing NBC journalists from reporting on Weinstein.
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Noah Oppenheim denied that NBC hid the Matt Lauer accusations over the years and calls Farrow's book a "smear" though many on his staff remain skeptical.