Rashida Jones to Exit MSNBC; Rebecca Kutler Named Interim President
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Rashida Jones, a respected news operator who has led MSNBC for four years, will leave the NBCUniversal cable outlet to pursue other opportunities, she informed executives and staffers Tuesday.
She will be replaced on an interim basis by Rebecca Kutler, a veteran news executive with a long track record of managing talent and devising innovative programming concepts.
She takes the lead role at MSNBC as it faces not only the challenges of covering the Trump administration for its demoralized liberal audience, but also the prospect of being spun off into a new publicly traded company by corporate parent Comcast.
Kutler joined MSNBC as senior vice president of content strategy in 2022, after a long run at CNN. During her time at the Warner Bros.
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