U.S. White Space press secretary Jen Psaki speaks throughout a press briefing on the White Space in Washington, December 20, 2021.
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President Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, is making plans to depart the White Space to take an on-air function at MSNBC, a supply aware of the subject advised CNBC on Friday.
Psaki, who remains to be fleshing out main points with the corporate, is anticipated to depart the White Space round Might, Axios reported previous Friday.
Psaki will host a display for NBCUniversal’s streaming platform, Peacock, Axios reported. She had reportedly additionally been in talks with CNN and different networks.
Psaki didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for remark.
“We do not need anything else to verify about Jen’s period of deliberate provider or any attention about long term plans,” a White Space reliable advised CNBC in an electronic mail. “Jen is right here and dealing exhausting on a daily basis on behalf of the President to get you the solutions to the questions that you’ve, and that’s the reason the place her center of attention is.”
Information networks have lengthy seemed to recruit spokespeople and different high-profile Beltway figures for his or her daily political protection, each as anchors and common individuals.
Longtime ABC Information host George Stephanopoulos, as an example, used to be previously the White Space communications director below President Invoice Clinton. MSNBC political analyst and host Nicolle Wallace used to be a senior spokeswoman for the George W. Bush management and a spokeswoman for John McCain’s 2008 presidential marketing campaign.
Final March, former President Donald Trump’s ultimate press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, joined Fox Information as a commentator. Extra lately, CBS Information signed ex-Trump reliable Mick Mulvaney as a paid contributor.
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Disclosure: CNBC and MSNBC proportion the similar guardian corporate, NBCUniversal.