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NBC News to launch NBCNews.com
By DYLAN BYERS |
6/21/12 2:42 PM EDT
POLITICO

NBC News, which has long had to share its website with MSNBC at msnbc.msn.com, is finally set to get its own website.

NBC Universal has hired a new press representative and brand manager who tells POLITICO that her assignment will be to "ramp up political coverage through the November election for MSNBC.com and also introduce/promote/roll out/etc. what will be NBCNews.com."

The new site, which sources say is tentatively scheduled for September, would enable NBC News to distance its digital presence from that of its sister cable network, where programming has becoming increasingly liberal.