Brandy Zadrozny moves from NBC News to MSNBC as the network's post-Comcast newsroom takes shape
Source: Fast Company
Versant, the new company thats being spun off from Comcast, and which will be the new home to several of its cable networks, is building out a new, independent news-gathering operation as it disentangles MSNBC from NBC News.
For decades, the two brands worked hand-in-hand, sharing reporting and resources. However, with the two entities soon to be part of different companies, they need to decouple, which includes determining where some of the companys talent will go.
Thats a complicated process, and it means that MSNBC, for the first time since its inception in 1996, will rely on its own stable of reporters and correspondents, rather than the combined efforts of its staff and NBC News.
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Brandy Zadrozny is joining MSNBC as the networks new senior enterprise reporter, based in New York. She moves to the new role after serving as a senior reporter at NBC News, where she covered the internet with a focus on politics, tech, and extremism.
Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/91361764/msnbc-spins-off-comcast-nbc-news-brandy-zadrozny
Similarly, Comcast's Sky News in the UK shares a name (but not corporate ties) with another channel Sky News Australia. The UK Sky News is a regular straight news channel, but Sky News Australia is Fox News in Australian accents.

msongs
(71,888 posts)hlthe2b
(110,820 posts)Neither are mentioned vis-à-vis MSNBC in the article...
SouthBayDem
(32,803 posts)Sky News (UK) is hardly the same as Sky News Australia. Similarly, MSNBC will be "NBC in Name Only" compared to regular NBC.
hlthe2b
(110,820 posts)
Once in a while, when there is a big story breaking overseas, I've seen MSNBC switch to Sky News overnight so they seem to have had (or are establishing) a relationship of some kind...
Mawspam2
(1,001 posts)Morning Joe will grow to six hours. Maddow, Hayes, and Psaki will all quit or be fired, leaving Michael Steele and LOD in the night.
Get ready for the John Kasich Show and the Bulwark Roundtable featuring Charlie Kirk and Candice Owens.
RedArkGuy
(822 posts)The only name I see that I would view with some skepticism is that of Ken Dillanian, who I've always found to be pretty Trump-friendly. This Brandy Zadrozny is not exactly an Andrea Mitchell type herself. She's given QAnon and a lot of the disinformation agents on the Trump side some unshirted hell.