<sod>After her demotion to general assignment reporter, Savitch's reporting continued to be mixed. She was banned from reporting for the weeknight ''[[NBC Nightly News]]'' after filing a problematic story on the [[Canadian federal election, 1979|May 1979 Canadian election]], for which she had been assigned to replace NBC's regular Canada reporter so the network could showcase her. Despite these issues, due to her popularity with viewers she was still featured as a highly visible podium reporter at the 1980 Republican and Democratic conventions. While she was able to obtain some exclusive interviews (including being the only reporter to speak with [[President of the United States|President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] as he left the podium at the Democratic convention), NBC again replaced her with Tom Pettit before the end of the Democratic convention, causing her to feel humiliated and "devastated". <eod>
<sod>After her demotion to general assignment reporter, Savitch's reporting continued to be mixed. She was banned from reporting for the weeknight ''[[NBC Nightly News]]'' after filing a problematic story on the [[Canadian federal election, 1979|May 1979 Canadian election]], for which she had been assigned to replace NBC's regular Canada reporter so the network could showcase her. Despite these issues, due to her popularity with viewers she was still featured as a highly visible podium reporter at the 1980 Republican and Democratic conventions. While she was able to obtain some exclusive interviews (including being the only reporter to speak with President [[Jimmy Carter]] as he left the podium at the Democratic convention), NBC again replaced her with Tom Pettit before the end of the Democratic convention, causing her to feel humiliated and "devastated". <eod>