SHORT TAKES : Nunn Reportedly Quits ABC

Ray Nunn, a senior producer at ABC News and executive producer of last year’s award-winning documentary “Black in White America,” has left the network to join the senior production staff of the syndicated “The Jesse Jackson Show” (formerly known as “Voices of America”), the Washington Post reported today.

Nunn, one of the highest-ranking black producers at a major network, will reportedly have a major role in other projects, including entertainment programming, planned by Quincy Jones Productions, which will be producing the Jackson show out of the WRC-Channel 4 studios in Washington starting this fall.

Nunn had been with ABC News for 12 years, during which he had been a correspondent and bureau chief in Atlanta and Beirut as well as a producer.

A spokesman for Quincy Jones Productions would not confirm Nunn’s new job but an ABC News source said the producer had asked out of the remaining months of his contract to accept the position.