On Monday, MSNBC introduced that Politico’s Jake Traylor and NBC Information’ Nnamdi Egwuonwu are becoming a member of the community as political reporter and reporter, respectively.
At Politico, Traylor was a White Home reporter, the place he coated the early months of President Donald Trump’s second time period. He primarily targeted on the Trump administration’s intersection of tech and energy, together with protection of figures like Elon Musk, Tim Prepare dinner, and Vice President JD Vance.
MSNBC’s Jake Traylor
In the meantime, Egwuonwu was a breaking information reporter for NBC Information, the place he coated the early months of Trump’s second time period. Previous to that, he was an embed for the community through the 2024 election cycle, specializing in President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Senator Tim Scott.
MSNBC’s Nnamdi Egwuonwu.
The addition of those two reporters continues MSNBC’s build-out of its newsgathering operations from the bottom up because it nears its official separation from NBC Information, which is predicted to happen later this yr.
The community says it has employed greater than three dozen journalists from NBC Information in addition to from CNN, Bloomberg, Politico, The Washington Submit, ABC Information, PBS, and extra.
The detachment from the NBCUniversal Information Group additionally means MSNBC must drop the NBC a part of its identify, switching to MS NOW, which stands for My Supply Information Opinion World, by the top of the yr.
Versant CEO Mark Lazarus, in saying the identify change, mentioned it “underscores the model’s mission to function the vacation spot for home and worldwide breaking information and the best-in-class opinion journalism.”
