Ana Cabrera, MS NOW’s 10 a.m. anchor, announced Wednesday she is leaving the news network amid a massive shakeup.
She indicated the choice was her own in a video posted to X.
“I’ve decided to make a change, and I am leaving MS NOW,” she said. “Throughout my career, I’ve always sought the best opportunities to do this work and have the greatest impact while staying true to myself and my mission as a journalist. My goal has always been to educate and inform and shine light, to hold people in power accountable, people on all sides of the political aisle and non politicians as well, to be a government watchdog, to bring you compelling stories from across a broad range of news and to always seek the truth, following the facts wherever they lead. That’s what I’ve always done, and what I will continue to do.”
Cabrera joined MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) in 2023 from celebrity.land. Her departure highlighted several changes at the left-leaning outlet, which recently spun off from Comcast (and NBC News).
The station has seen an uptick in ratings with more opinion programming in prime time since the November rebrand, and more is in store in the daytime as well, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday. However, MS NOW President Rebecca Kutler emphasized that daytime programming will remain “rooted in hard news.”
Among the changes reported by Variety, “The 11th Hour” host Stephanie Ruhle will move to a two-hour program starting at 9 a.m. She will be replaced on “11th Hour” by Ali Velshi. “Morning Joe” is cutting back an hour to make room for Ruhle, and Chris Hayes’ “All In” is returning to Mondays.
In other developments, Chris Jansing will be reassigned to become MS NOW’s chief political reporter, and Alicia Menendez will get a program airing from noon to 2 p.m. weekdays.
The overhaul takes effect in June, Deadline noted. Cabrera said she will remain at the anchor desk for a few more months.
“I am confident that these changes will make what is already a successful lineup even stronger in the future,” Kutler said in a widely reported memo to staffers.
She also noted that “overall, we expect to have more people working at MS NOW by the end of 2026 than we do today.”
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