Symone Sanders to Take Over MSNBC Slot in May
Symone D. Sanders will take over the 4 p.m. weekend slot on MSNBC because the NBCUniversal-owned community continues to bolster opinion programming over hours dedicated to straight information reportage. The previous media strategist, who has helped two distinguished Democrats in presidential campaigns, will kick off her first present on Saturday, Could 7, at 4 p.m….
Symone D. Sanders will take over the 4 p.m. weekend slot on MSNBC because the NBCUniversal-owned community continues to bolster opinion programming over hours dedicated to straight information reportage.
The previous media strategist, who has helped two distinguished Democrats in presidential campaigns, will kick off her first present on Saturday, Could 7, at 4 p.m. The hour is presently anchored by Yasmin Vossoughian in a extra conventional information format. Sanders, who involves MSNBC immediately from working as a media aide to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, may also host her program on MSNBC’s streaming hub on Peacock, the place she is going to seem on Mondays and Tuesdays. Sanders is anticipated to discover points on the intersection of politics, tradition and race and have interviews with high newsmakers.
“I’m going to deliver my entire self to this present. I’m a younger girl, a younger girl of coloration. I’m a Black girl, a younger Black girl type the Midwest, from Nebraska. Sure, I’ve performed politics, however I’m additionally a shopper of popular culture,” Sanders informed Selection in an interview in January. “I’m turning on the information within the automotive, however I’m additionally DVR-ing the ‘Housewives.’ There’s a area for that to intersect.”
Sanders new present is the newest occasion of MSNBC increasing its opinion-led choices and trimming again hours dedicated to information. The community is including a fourth hour of “Morning Joe” to weekdays subsequent month and intends to launch lawyer Katie Phang in an opinion hour on early weekend mornings that had beforehand been earmarked for extra conventional reportage.
Catherine Snyder has been tapped as government producer of Sanders’ new program. She is presently managing editor at WRC, an NBC-owned station in Washington, D.C. Snyder beforehand labored WUSA, a Washington CBS station, and was a senior producer at CNBC who helped launch “Mad Cash With Jim Cramer” and “Capital Report.”
“Symone’s information, perception, expertise and, above all, authenticity will supply viewers a recent perspective not simply on politics however on the cultural points affecting all of us at a pivotal time in our historical past,” mentioned Snyder, in a ready assertion.
