MSNBC told the majority of Rachel Maddow employees and Joy Prime Time Time News Time evening news that they have been launched as part of the network repair with the ability to apply for new roles, according to two people, directly familiar with the question.
Maddow, the biggest star and anchor with the highest rating in MSNBC, will receive his executive producer Corey Gnazo and several other senior producers, people said.
But the rest of the Maddow-assembled team with producers who worked on other canceled shows, host Katie Fang, Jonathan Capehart, Ayman Mojinden and Jose Diaz-Balarta were given the opportunity to request compensation or reappear for new roles on the web.
The Maddow team was released because of the strangeness of how they worked on both Maddow and Alex Wagner’s show when Maddow returned to hosting only on Monday, and Wagner hosted Tuesday until Friday.
Currently, Maddow hosts five nights a week for the first 100 days of the Trump Administration, but when he returns only on Monday and the programming shake enters into force on April 21, Jen Psaki, the former Biden White House press secretary will take the slot from Tuesday until Friday.
A MSNBC source said the changes were not “widespread cuts”, but more recently redirecting manufacturers in support of new programs and priorities. They said that the new roles were first published internally and would not be published externally until the affected employees had no chance of applying again.
The manner of changes to staff – as employees again apply for roles in time slots they are already producing – are unprecedented in MSNBC on this scale. Usually, MSNBC has made great efforts to redistribute employees without releasing them after the broadcasts have been canceled.
But all this comes in a stormy time for the cable news industry in general. MSNBC deviates from NBCuniversal and tries to find cost savings, like CNN fired 200 employees last month as its new CEO Mark Thompson is trying to focus on a digital strategy.
Some employees in Washington have expressed private concern that new publications may be mainly in New York, where the hourly pay rates agreed by different alliances are understood as a smaller one. New jobs in New York may also require relocation.
Over the weekend, the status reported that an employee of Reed’s show asked new MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler for the future of the show officers. Kutler has been reported that the staff will be released, but assured them that they will remain employees until April and receive compensation packages.
It is also reported that Kutler told them that more than 100 new roles would be published this week and encouraged the affected employees to apply. She added that in six months, there would be more employees at MSNBC than there are currently.
On Monday night, Maddow seems to be criticized by MSNBC for the latest programs for programming and treating his staff during a monologue in his show.
Maddow expressed concern for the dozens of producers and employees who work behind the scenes, saying that “they were indeed released through the wing”, facing potential cuts and “invited to apply for new jobs again”.
Maddow noted: “This has never happened on this scale, so before, when it comes to changes in programming, probably because this is not the right way to treat people, which is ineffective and unnecessary, and this is generally not doing things about whether people feel that it is a good place to work and therefore does not do things in principle.
The anchor also called Raid to shoot a “bad mistake” during the monologue and said he did not want to lose Reed as a colleague at MSNBC.
“Personally, I think it’s a bad mistake to let her go out the door,” Madow said. “This is not my call and I understand this, but I think that.”
She added: “It’s also nervous to see on a net where we have two, two non-white hosts in prime time, and our two white hosts at Prime Time lose their shows as well as Katie Fang over the weekend. And that feels more bad than the bad, no matter who replaces them. This feels indefinitely and I do not defend it. “