NBC News President Andy Lack is now beginning to take an active role in the herculean task of trying to right the cable news channel. Specifically, Lack is now often attending MSNBC chief Phil Griffin‘s 11:30 a.m. editorial meetings; and, to quote one witness, Lack regularly appears “underwhelmed” with the story pitches.
While Andy Lack was gone from NBC, MSNBC changed from traditional news to a political network with a liberal lens. Now that it is mired in a ratings slump, Lack’s mandate as incoming chairman will be figuring out if MSNBC needs a complete overhaul or a sharpening of its mission.
MSNBC’s two newest programs won’t be seen first on the cable-news network. In the latest example of so-called “traditional” news outlets casting about for audience in new ways, the NBCUniversal-owned outlet will produce two daily videos that appear on Facebook before they surface anywhere else.
Exclusives
The Morning Joe host appealed on the air Monday for Williams to be judged, after the current “fury” and social-media “madness” die down, on the totality of his career rather than on one to three “bad mistakes.”
In a year-end message sent to employees Monday, Phil Griffin, president of the NBC-owned cable news channel, wrote: “Technology is continuing to drive unprecedented changes across the media landscape — and we all should be taking a hard, honest look at how we need to evolve along with it.”
Dying Army Captain To Appear On MSNBC
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MSNBC host Martin Bashir resigned from the network today, two weeks after making the graphic suggestion that someone defecate in former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s mouth.
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The avalanche of lawsuits on the internship front keeps coming. The latest is a proposed class action against NBCUniversal from Jesse Moore, who says he worked 24-hour-or-more weeks in the booking department at MSNBC in 2011, and Monet Eliastam, who says she worked 25-hour-or-more weeks on the staff of Saturday Night Live in 2012.
