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MSNBC Taps Washington Post’s Jackie Alemany as ‘Weekend’ Co-Host
MSNBC has hired Jackie Alemany from The Washington Post to co-host the morning version of its "The Weekend" roundtable program
“Her addition as a co-host of ‘The Weekend’ in the mornings, alongside Eugene Daniels and Jonathan Capehart, solidifies this trio as a trusted roundtable of experts and insiders our audience is looking forward to waking up with every Saturday and Sunday.” The executive, who decided to replace Joy Reid at 7 p.m. with the trio of Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez and Alex Wagner at 9 p.m. with Jen Psaki, has vowed to establish a separate newsgathering apparatus for MSNBC. “MSNBC continues to provide much needed context and insight to consequential stories, and the network’s investment in original reporting and its rapidly expanding Washington bureau signals its ambitions and commitment to viewers and agenda-setting journalism as a whole.
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