At the same time, the news programs have been in some transition. Straight news shows like those delivered by Andrea Mitchell and others are packaged under graphics that read “MSNBC Reports.” Ali Velshi has been on the ground in Ukraine for days, delivering affecting reports from that war-torn country. To be sure, MSNBC still has news programming, and has in recent months worked to ensure viewers identify it more readily. Symone Sanders, a former aide to the campaigns of President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders, will hold forth in a weekend hour previously anchored by Yamin Vossoughian. On weekends, an early-morning hour once devoted to news coverage has been taken over by repeats of opinion programs that run on the NBCU streaming hub Peacock, and that slot will soon be the province of a new opinion host, Katie Phang. news hour that had been anchored by Stephanie Ruhle ( who now anchors MSNBC’s 11 p.m.
On Monday, “Morning Joe” took over a fourth hour of the daytime schedule, edging out a 9 a.m. Still, as NBC News seeks to break the latest details, MSNBC has been trimming back its news offerings in favor of opinion-led programs.
