MSNBC has announced that the majority of employees who produce Primetime Evening News for Rachel Madow and Joyleed have a direct knowledge of the issue, and the network’s programming overhaul is an option to apply for a new role, according to two people who are directly familiar with the issue. It shows that it has been let go as part of it.
People said MSNBC’s biggest star and top-rated anchor, Maddow can keep executive producer Cory Gnazzo and several other senior producers.
However, the rest of Maddow’s team will be arguing for resignation or reapply for a new role in the network, along with producers who worked on other cancelled shows hosted by Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Ayman Mohyeldin and Jose Diaz-Balart. You are given options. , people said.
Madow’s team was let go because of their quirks of how they worked on both Madow’s and Alex Wagner’s shows.
Maddow currently hosts five nights a week in the Trump administration’s first 100 days, but when she returned to Monday only and the programming shakeup came into effect on April 21, the former Biden White House Jumpsaki, the spokesman, gets it. Slots from Tuesday to Friday.
A source for MSNBC said the change was not a “broad layoff” but a reallocation of producers supporting new programs and priorities. They said the new role was originally posted internally and will not be posted outside until affected employees have the opportunity to reapply.
How HR Change – Re-applying for roles in time slots already produced by employees is unprecedented on MSNBC at this scale. Typically, MSNBC has a huge struggle to redistribute staff without firing them after the show is cancelled.
But it’s all come at a turbulent time for the cable news industry in general. MSNBC is being spin-off by NBCuniversal and is trying to find cost savings, similar to how CNN fired 200 employees last month as new CEO Mark Thompson.
Some staff in Washington, DC have personally expressed concern that new posts could be mostly in New York. New jobs in New York may also need to be relocated.
Over the weekend, Status reported that Reed’s show staff had asked new MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler about the future of show staff. Kutler reportedly confirmed that staff will be let go, but guaranteed they will still be employees until April to receive their retirement package.
Kutler also reportedly told them that more than 100 new roles would be posted this week, encouraging affected staff to apply. She added that six months from now, MSNBC has more employees than it is now.
On Monday night, Maddow appeared to criticize MSNBC for her recent programming shake-up in her show monologue and her staff treatment.
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Maddow has expressed concern to dozens of producers and staff working behind the scenes, saying that he is “actually going through the ringer,” facing potential layoffs and saying that he “re-apply for a new job.” I’m invited to do this.”
Maddow said: Or people feel this is a good place to work, so we generally don’t do things like that. ”
The anchor said Reid was called to fire a “bad mistake” during his monologue and he didn’t want to lose Reid as a colleague at MSNBC.
“Personally, I think it’s a bad mistake for her to leave the door,” Madow said. “It’s not my phone, I understand that, but that’s what I think.”
She added: “On a network that has two non-white hosts at Primetime, both non-white hosts are losing their shows at Primetime. Weekend. And that’s more than a bad thing no matter who replaces them. I also feel bad. I feel it is impossible to defend, and I don’t defend it.”
