By Katherine Tinsley
11:47am PST, Feb 26, 2025
According to The Guardian, the shift is due to employees working for The Rachel Maddow Show and another program on the channel.
"The Maddow team was let go because of a quirk of how they worked on both Maddow's show and Alex Wagner's show, when Maddow scaled back to hosting only Mondays and Wagner hosted Tuesday to Friday," the outlet stated.
As President
Donald Trump transitions back to the White House, Maddow's show will air daily during the early stages of his administration. However, the political commentator is set to transition back to her regular schedule.
"Maddow is currently hosting five nights a week for the first 100 days of the Trump administration, but when she returns to Mondays only and the programming shake-up takes effect on 21 April,
Jen Psaki, the former Biden White House press secretary, will take over the Tuesday-to-Friday slot,"
The Guardian noted.
MSNBC clarified that the loss isn't indicative of "widespread layoffs."
Maddow's executive producer, Cory Gnazzo, and several senior producers will continue their roles.
Maddow's crew wasn't the only one to receive the boot, as
Joy Reid's
The ReidOut was recently canceled.
"She is leaving the network altogether and that is very, very, very hard to take," Maddow said on a Monday, February 24, episode.
"I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call and I understand that," the Stanford alum continued. "But that's what I think."
Maddow was also candid about not wanting MSNBC to reduce their production workforce.
"Dozens of producers and staffers, including some who are among the most experienced and most talented and most specialist producers in the building are facing being laid off," she noted.
As MSNBC continues to pivot, Maddow raised concerns about their approach.
"They're being invited to reapply for new jobs," the Rhodes Scholar stressed. "That has never happened at this scale in this way before when it comes to programming changes, presumably because it's not the right way to treat people."
