Becoming a member of the White Home Beat: PBS NewsHour named Liz Landers as its new White Home correspondent. Landers—who begins her beat Monday, Sept. 15—joins PBS Information from Scripps Information, the place she had been a nationwide safety correspondent since 2024.
“I’m thrilled to affix the staff of devoted and extremely revered journalists at PBS NewsHour,” Landers stated in an announcement. “At this essential time in our nation’s historical past, I sit up for protecting the White Home and this administration for public broadcasting’s iconic nightly information program.”
I’m so extremely excited and honored to be taking this subsequent step in my profession to affix PBS Information Hour because the White Home correspondent, beginning subsequent month. deadline.com/2025/08/liz-…
— Liz Landers (@elizlanders.bsky.social) August 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
D.C. Appointment: Hannah Brandt joined NewsNation as a Washington, D.C., correspondent. Brandt—who begins her new function Monday, Aug. 25—joins the information community from Nexstar Media Group’s D.C. multimedia journalist staff, the place she was a reporter. She additionally labored for Nexstar stations in Topeka, Kan., and Harrisburg, Pa. In the meantime, its sister digital publication, The Hill, introduced that Lindsey Granger will be a part of Robby Soave as a co-host of its flagship morning present, Rising, which is now accessible on Nexstar’s DCNewsNow.
New AI Function: CNN is heading into the synthetic intelligence house with a brand new chief in place to sort out the burgeoning know-how. Ryan Struyk was named director of AI innovation for the community. This newly created function will see Struyk lead CNN’s efforts to combine AI throughout its editorial and newsgathering operations, which additionally consists of enhancing newsroom workflows and enhancing editorial decision-making. Struyk was most not too long ago a supervising producer on State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.
I am beginning a brand new function as CNN’s first Director of AI Innovation!
I’m thrilled in regards to the alternative to assist chart the longer term for such a exceptional information group and its revolutionary use of this cutting-edge know-how.
(oh, and I received a brand new headshot!) pic.twitter.com/AYEtiMNNBk
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 11, 2025
