MSNBC made a major overhaul after Rebecca Jutler became the new president of the network following Donald Trump’s election win. Liberal Joy Reid is a known critic of Trump and her 7 pm show has been running for the past five years. Now the network decided to replace the program by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele and Symone Sanders Townsend.New York Times reported that the final episode of Reid’ss show “The Reidout” will air sometime this week.
The shakeup comes amid the plummeting rating of the network, the NYT said. MSNBC outperformed CNN but lagged behind Fox News, it said. “Other major changes are expected at MSNBC. In January, Rachel Maddow, the network’s best-known anchor, returned to hosting her 9 p.m. show five days a week during the first 100 days of the Trump administration after having scaled back to only Mondays. At the time, the network said that Alex Wagner, who had hosted the 9 p.m. show four days a week, would return at the end of April,” the report said.
“That is no longer the case. Instead, MSNBC is planning to appoint a new anchor to fill Ms. Wagner’s spot, the two people said. A likely candidate for that hour is Jen Psaki, a former White House press secretary in the Biden administration, who hosts shows on Sunday at noon and 8 p.m. on Mondays, the people said, though adding that this decision hadn’t been finalized,” it said.
Who is Joy Reid?
56-year-old Joy Reid is a political commentator, television host and writer. The ReidOut is her best-known programme. She was described by NYT as a “heroine” emerging from the political movements and protests against Donald Trump. She has written three political books. Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide (2016), The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story (2019), and Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America (2024).
