Cynthia McFadden (born May 27, 1956) is an American television journalist who is currently the senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News.

Bashir left the program due to fallout from credibility problems from the disputed and controversial reports on singer Michael Jackson and was replaced by Bill Weir in 2010.

While Nightline was threatened with cancellation in 2002 under Koppel's long-form journalism format, it saw a resurgence in its ratings and prominence after switching to more celebrity topics, pop culture and entertainment news, often competing for higher numbers with the Late Show with David Letterman.

[6] As anchor, McFadden conducted a number of significant interviews including ones with celebrities such as Clint Eastwood, Paul McCartney and Judge Judy Sheindlin, past and present world leaders such as Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair, and five with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton On March 29, 2014, after two decades with ABC News, with the last nine years as a Nightline anchor, McFadden left and joined NBC News.

[12] In October 2020, Town and Country magazine published an account McFadden and her son Spencer wrote about their road trip from New York City to California, where he was a student.