MSNBC’s Kyle Griffin: Working for The Weekend

metroweekly.com:

Kyle Griffin’s first foray into the world of news was serving as the anchor for his high school’s morning announcements program.

But the then-teenager quickly realized that being an on-air personality was not for him.“I saw at my local NBC affiliate that while the anchors and reporters were great, they were reading someone else’s words, and I wanted to be the person who wrote those words,” says Griffin. “I wanted to write the news.”Griffin got his wish.

A veteran of Seven Network Limited, NBC News Yahoo!, and the Albany, New York-based NBC affiliate WNYT, he’s currently the executive producer of MSNBC’s The Weekend, the network’s Saturday and Sunday morning news show, which launched earlier this year.He is very much a storyteller, a talent the 37-year-old picked up from a previous stint working as a senior producer on MSNBC’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell, where he was part of the team that earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding News Discussions & Analysis.