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MSNBC Building Up News Operation In Advance Of Split From Comcast; Jen Psaki And ‘The Weekend’ Hosts Eyed For Expanded Roles


Jen Psaki and the hosts of The Weekend are being eyed for expanded roles.

MSNBC is embarking on its first major steps toward building up a newsgathering operation, with plans to add a Washington bureau and domestic and international correspondents. With MSNBC being spun off from Comcast later this year, a lingering question has been how it will deal with the fact that NBC News will no longer be a sister network. The network saw an audience drop following the 2024 election, but there has been an uptick since Donald Trump’s inauguration, with Rachel Maddow returing to a five-night-a-week format for the first 100 days of the new administration.

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