Joy Reid leaving MSNBC as her show is canceled
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In a USA TODAY exclusive, Rachel Maddow tells Gary Levin why she is heading back to MSNBC 5 days a week and how she plans to cover the Trump presidency.
Joy Reid's MSNBC show is coming to an end.
Rebecca Kutler, who officially took over as MSNBC's president earlier this month, has announced several programming changes at the liberal-leaning cable news network. As part of the shakeup, Reid's show "The ReidOut" has been canceled, and she is leaving the network.
In the coming weeks, Reid's 7 p.m. EST hour will be filled by a series of rotating anchors. In a staff memo, Kutler thanked Reid for "her countless contributions over the years." Reid has hosted shows on MSNBC, including "The Reid Report" and "AM Joy," for more than a decade. "The ReidOut," debuted in 2020.
That weekday time slot will soon be anchored by Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez, who currently host "The Weekend" on Saturdays and Sundays. Sanders-Townsend has served as an adviser and spokesperson for former Vice President Kamala Harris, while Steele is a former chair of the Republican National Committee.
In a Monday post on Bluesky, Reid thanked "everyone who has reached out with kindness and encouragement" and said she is "so very proud" of her team at "The ReidOut."
MSNBC host Joy Reid apologizes after hot mic expletive moment on 'The Reid Out'
MSNBC tweaked its programming schedule in January, when Rachel Maddow returned to hosting her show five nights a week for the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term. "The Rachel Maddow Show" had been airing only on Mondays since 2022, with "Alex Wagner Tonight" filling the time slot the rest of the week. Despite promises that Wagner would return to that slot on May 1, Jen Psaki will fill it instead. Psaki, a former adviser to presidents Obama and Biden who served as Biden's press secretary, joined MSNBC shortly after stepping down from that post in 2022. She has hosted a weekend show, "Inside with Jen Psaki," on weekends since 2023.
Wagner will remain at MSNBC as a correspondent.
Kutler also announced Monday that a new trio of hosts will anchor morning and evening editions of "The Weekend." Jonathan Capehart will be among the morning hosts, while the evening line-up will include Ayman Mohyeldin.
The announcements mark the first major shakeup for MSNBC under Kutler after she replaced Rashida Jones, who stepped down in January. Two months earlier, Comcast announced it would break off most of its cable channels, including MSNBC, into its own company. The name MSNBC will be retained.
Before succeeding Jones as president, Kutler was MSNBC's senior vice president of content strategy. While addressing MSNBC leaders in February, she said the year ahead would involve "getting to build a new news organization," which is "going to be hard, but it's also going to be exciting and interesting and a really important time to do what all of us do."
Norah O'Donnell signs off Hoda Kotb's out: 'God-like days' are over for big name anchors
Ratings at CNN and MSNBC have plummeted in recent years, amid several programming changes at news networks over the past few months. At CNN, Alisyn Camerota, Chris Wallace and Jim Acosta have exited since the 2024 presidential election. Other anchors who have vacated their roles recently include CBS Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell and "Today" show's Hoda Kotb, "NBC Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt Monday announced plans to step down by early summer.
According to data from Nielsen, MSNBC's primetime viewership declined 44% between the November presidential election and February.
Contributing: Jay Stahl
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