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NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, the data guru who became one of the breakout stars of election night coverage last year, will develop a game show for NBCUniversal’s television and streaming group, and will officially join NBC Sports with plans for appearances during Olympics coverage and Super Bowl…

UPDATED, with remarks from Kevin McCarthy: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who refused to stay silent about Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, was ousted from House Republican Leadership on Wednesday, as expected, with a big contrast in how the moment was covered by cable news networks. In the 9 am…

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell will do an interview with President Joe Biden from the White House on Wednesday followed by a town hall with the administration’s Covid-19 team. The interview will be featured on Vaccinating America: An MSNBC Town Hall, to air at 10 PM ET on MSNBC and streaming on Noticias Telemundo’s…

All the major broadcast and cable networks carried the funeral of Prince Philip on Saturday, a mark of how significant the Royal Family is in the U.S. But in the prelude of the service at St. George’s Chapel, there was a bit of a contrast between coverage on American outlets and those on the other side of the pond. As…

UPDATED with reactions: Legal analyst Midwin Charles, familiar to viewers for her frequent appearances on CNN, MSNBC, HLN and Bloomberg TV, died Tuesday. She was 47. Her death was announced by her family on social media. A cause of death and other details were not specified. "It is with a profoundly heavy heart and…

News networks trumpeted their first-quarter ratings by keying in on their bright spots: CNN got the biggest bounce and topped the 25-54 demo, Fox News led in primetime in total viewers, and MSNBC ranked first in total-day viewers. But drill down to the month of March, and a slower news cycle versus a year earlier…

MSNBC is rebranding its daytime MSNBC Live newscasts as MSNBC Reports, part of an effort to distinguish its news programming from analysis shows in the late afternoon and evenings. The daytime schedule is not changing, but the MSNBC Live banner will be eliminated in favor of featuring the name of each hour’s anchor in…

Alexi McCammond, who was to take over as the next editor in chief of Teen Vogue, has instead resigned amid a furor over offensive tweets she posted as a teenager resurfaced. “My past tweets have overshadowed the work I’ve done to highlight the people and issues that I care about — issues that Teen Vogue has worked…

Olivia Munn says that Asian Americans are being targeted, responding to the Atlanta shooting on Tuesday where a white gunman killed eight people, six of whom were Asian American. The Love Wedding Repeat and The Newsroom actress spoke with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday about the rise in anti-Asian violence amid…

Eugene Daniels, the co-author of Politico’s daily newsletter Playbook, is joining MSNBC as a contributor. Daniels also recently signed with WME Entertainment for representation in all areas. The announcement was made on Wednesday by Nicolle Wallace as Daniels appeared on her show, Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wal…

California Governor Gavin Newsom escalated his fight against the recall effort threatening to remove him from office this week. The photogenic leader of the Golden State went on a national media blitz. In about an 18-hour period, Newsom appeared on MSNBC, The View and CNN. He defended his record and attacked those…

MSNBC drew the most total day viewers in February, beating all other cable networks in the ratings yardstick, while The Rachel Maddow Show was the top regularly scheduled show. The other news networks also were touting their numbers: CNN beat other networks in the 25-54 demographic in the total day timeframe as well…