As expected, she make appearances on the network's cable and streaming programs as well as host a new original show set to debut in the first quarter of 2023.
Ex-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Hired By MSNBC
NEW YORK (AP) — Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has officially landed at MSNBC, where she is expected to make appearances on the network’s cable and streaming programs as well as host a new original show.
The program, set to debut in the first quarter of 2023, will “bring together her unique perspective from behind the podium and her deep experience in the highest levels of government and presidential politics,” the network said in a statement Tuesday.
Psaki will also appear on NBC and during MSNBC’s primetime special election programming throughout the midterms and 2024 presidential election.
Psaki most recently served as White House spokesperson for the first 16 months of the Biden administration. She previously served as White House communications director under former President Barack Obama and as the spokeswoman for the Department of State.
“Her extensive experience in government and on the campaign trail and perspective as a White House and Washington insider is the type of analysis that sets MSNBC apart,” MSNBC President Rashida Jones said in a statement. “She’s a familiar face and trusted authority to MSNBC viewers, and we look forward to her insight during this consequential election season.”
At MSNBC, on-air personalities are mostly sympathetic to Biden and the Democrats. During Psaki’s White House tenure, Democrats saw her as a champion of their causes, while conservatives found her combative and standoffish.
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MSNBC has also hired Symone Sanders, former chief spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris. NBC News has taken pains to draw distinctions between its journalists and MSNBC, which has beefed up its opinion programming.
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tvn-member-3011604 says:
May 24, 2022 at 2:14 pm
Got the perfect name for her show: “Jen Psaki’s Spin Cycle” because the only thing viewers will be getting is happy-talk Democrat spin on whatever gaffes, incompetencies and craziness the Biden Administration has generated while putting down the opposite side. But she really needs Peter Doocy. The only thing that made Psaki’s news conferences tolerable were the exchanges between her and the Fox News WH correspondent. Watching the seams come apart as Jen attempted to answer one of Peter’s pointed questions was always fun and worth sitting through the dreariness. Having Peter as her foil might bring the other side in as viewers.