MSNBC taps Stephanie Ruhle to succeed Brian Williams as ‘11th Hour’ host

Stephanie Ruhle is the new anchor for MSNBC's "The 11th Hour."
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MSNBC’s daytime host Stephanie Ruhle is transferring to late evening the place she's going to take over the NBCUniversal-owned cable information channel’s “The eleventh Hour.”

Ruhle, who can be senior enterprise analyst for NBC Information, will occupy the 11 p.m. Jap time slot vacated by Brian Williams, who selected to not signal a brand new take care of MSNBC on the finish of final yr. Staffers have been knowledgeable of the transfer Thursday in a memo from MSNBC President Rashida Jones.

Ruhle, 46, is presently a 9 a.m anchor on “Stephanie Ruhle Reviews.” Her time slot will likely be absorbed by the Beltway-focused “Morning Joe,” hosted by Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, which expands to 4 hours.

Jones didn't give a selected date on when the adjustments will take impact. She nonetheless has to find out the right way to fill the 9 p.m. slot held down by its greatest attraction, Rachel Maddow.

Maddow has a brand new take care of NBCUniversal, however is predicted to surrender her position as a each day prime-time program anchor within the first half of this yr. MSNBC has not introduced any particular timetable for the change.

Ruhle joined MSNBC in 2016 after a five-year stint at Bloomberg Tv. She had a profession in finance earlier than she turned a TV journalist.

“The eleventh Hour” was launched in 2016 to deal with the excessive quantity of late-breaking political information generated by the presidential marketing campaign and later out of the Trump White Home.

This system helped restore the profession of Williams, who moved to MSNBC from his position as anchor of “NBC Nightly Information,” following a suspension for making false on-air statements about his reporting throughout the Iraq struggle. Williams left NBC Information in December after a 26-year run and has but to announce his subsequent profession transfer.

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