By Ted Johnson MSNBC announced a big change in its executive ranks on Tuesday: Rashida Jones is taking on another role leading MSNBC’s daytime programming, while retaining her role as senior vice president of specials for NBC News and MSNBC.
NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack and MSNBC President Phil Griffin made the announcement in a memo to employees on Wednesday. “Rashida is well known at MSNBC in her current role, and as the former Managing Editor of dayside,” they wrote. “She now brings a whole new level of expertise from the network, in terms of breaking news—as she has done by managing special reports; by producing live events on a massive scale—as she did with our most recent political debates; and by driving major cross-network
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