MSNBC star Rachel Maddow will lose a lot of her workers as a part of the community’s manufacturing cuts, Fox Information Digital has confirmed.
Maddow’s staff is anticipated to be slashed in April after she finishes broadcasting 5 nights every week as a part of MSNBC’s primetime protection of President Trump’s first 100 days in workplace. “The Rachel Maddow Present” will then revert to solely Mondays, an association the community’s strongest host has brokered regardless of her lofty wage.
A lot of the workers being laid off additionally labored on “The Alex Wagner Present,” the now-canceled program that beforehand took over Maddow’s 9 p.m. ET time slot Tuesday by means of Friday, when “The Rachel Maddow Present” solely airs on Mondays. “Inside with Jen Psaki” might be taking its place in MSNBC’s revamped programming lineup, with the Maddow-Wagner shared staffers being let go.
Maddow’s most senior producers have been spared and staffers being lower have been invited by the community to reapply for open positions. MSNBC doesn’t think about these “widespread layoffs,” and sources are being reallocated to help new packages and priorities.
MSNBC declined Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
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Rachel Maddow is shedding greater than half of her workers as a part of MSNBC’s programming overhaul. (Virginia Sherwood/NBCU Photograph Financial institution/NBCUniversal through Getty Photos)
On Monday night time, Maddow candidly acknowledged to her viewers that layoffs might affect her present whereas denouncing MSNBC’s therapy of its staffers, saying they have been “actually being put by means of the wringer.”
“Dozens of producers and staffers, together with some who’re among the many most skilled and most proficient and most specialist producers within the constructing, are going through being laid off, they’re being invited to reapply for brand spanking new jobs,” Maddow mentioned.
“That has by no means occurred at this scale on this method earlier than in relation to programming adjustments, presumably as a result of it is not the fitting approach to deal with individuals, and it is inefficient and it is pointless, and it sort of drops the underside out of whether or not or not individuals really feel like it is a good place to work, and so we do not usually do issues that method,” she continued.
Maddow added, “Perhaps all of our people, together with most people who’re getting this very present on the air proper now, possibly they may all get new jobs right here, and I hope they do, however within the meantime, being put in this type of limbo, the nervousness and the discombobulation is off the charts at a time when this job already is further tense and tough.”
Nevertheless, only a few at MSNBC have the job safety of Maddow, who allegedly negotiated a whopping $25 million wage final yr.
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MSNBC star Rachel Maddow provided a shocking rebuke to her community over its choice to cancel her colleague Pleasure Reid’s present, calling it a “mistake.” (Screenshot/MSNBC)
Maddow additionally provided a full-throated protection of her former colleague Pleasure Reid after MSNBC canceled “The ReidOut.”
“I’m 51 years previous. I’ve been gainfully employed since I used to be 12. And I’ve had so many various sorts of jobs, you would not imagine me if I instructed you. However in all the jobs I’ve had, in all the years I’ve been alive, there isn’t any colleague for whom I’ve had extra affection and extra respect than Pleasure Reid,” Maddow mentioned.
“I really like all the things about her. I’ve realized a lot from her. I’ve a lot extra to be taught from her,” she continued. “I don’t need to lose her as a colleague right here at MSNBC, and personally, I feel it’s a unhealthy mistake to let her stroll out the door. It isn’t my name, and I perceive that, however that is what I feel.”
Maddow went on to name it “unnerving” for the community to cancel the exhibits of “two non-White hosts” (Reid and Wagner) in its weekday programming in addition to “The Katie Phang Present” on the weekends.
“And that feels worse than unhealthy, irrespective of who replaces them,” Maddow mentioned. “That feels indefensible, and I don’t defend it.”
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Pleasure Reid had her remaining bow on MSNBC after the community canceled “The ReidOut.” (Screenshot/MSNBC)
Whereas Maddow famous that Wagner will stay with the community as a political analyst, she didn’t point out that Reid’s timeslot is being stuffed by Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez, two of whom are Black and one is Latina, all presently co-host a weekend program collectively. Phang, too, can also be remaining with the community as a authorized correspondent.
New positions at MSNBC are anticipated to be made obtainable to impacted workers earlier than they’re publicly posted. MSNBC’s layoffs come throughout a tough time within the information trade, as CNN, the Los Angeles Instances and Washington Submit have additionally not too long ago lowered headcount as effectively.
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Fox Information’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
