Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editortephen Hayes, the conservative political analyst who raised eyebrows in November when he took to The New York Times to announce his breaking ties with Fox News Channel as a longtime contributor, is taking up with NBC News in advance of the midterm elections.Hayes is expected to appear regularly across all NBC News properties, including TV shows like “Today,” “Meet The Press” and the streaming outlet NBC News Now.
His first appearance under his new contributor deal with the NBCUniversal news division is expected to take place this Sunday on “Meet The Press.”Hayes is a founder of “The Dispatch,” a digital publication that espouses a center-right point of view.
Hayes, a longtime habitue of Washington media circles, was previously editor in chief of “The Weekly Standard,” now defunct.
In November, he and his colleague, Jonah Goldberg, took to the “Media Equation” column of The New York Times to say they were cutting ties with Fox News Channel, where they had been contributors since 2009.
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