{"id":2337975,"date":"2026-03-20T02:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2337975"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:40:32","slug":"ms-now-anchor-is-out-amid-news-networks-major-shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ms-now-anchor-is-out-amid-news-networks-major-shakeup\/","title":{"rendered":"MS NOW Anchor Is Out Amid News Network&#8217;s Major Shakeup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/ana-cabrera\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Ana Cabrera\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69bbc03fe4b0411b809f9b31\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/ana-cabrera\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">Ana Cabrera<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/msnbc\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"MS NOW\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69bbc03fe4b0411b809f9b31\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/news\/topic\/msnbc\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">MS NOW<\/a>\u2019s 10 a.m. anchor, announced Wednesday she is leaving the news network amid a massive shakeup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>She indicated the choice was her own in a video posted to X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve decided to make a change, and I am leaving MS NOW,\u201d she said. \u201cThroughout my career, I\u2019ve 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\u2019s what I\u2019ve always done, and what I will continue to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Cabrera joined MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) in 2023 from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/cnn\">celebrity.land<\/a>. Her departure highlighted several changes at the left-leaning outlet, which recently spun off from Comcast (and NBC News).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>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, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2026-03-18\/ms-now-shakes-up-daytime-line-up-ana-cabrera-to-exit#:~:text=The%20changes%20include%20the%20departure,MSNBC%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%9CThe%2011th%20Hour.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"the Los Angeles Times reported\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69bbc03fe4b0411b809f9b31\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2026-03-18\/ms-now-shakes-up-daytime-line-up-ana-cabrera-to-exit#:~:text=The%20changes%20include%20the%20departure,MSNBC%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%9CThe%2011th%20Hour.%E2%80%9D\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\">the Los Angeles Times reported<\/a> on Wednesday. However, MS NOW President Rebecca Kutler emphasized that daytime programming will remain \u201crooted in hard news.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Among the changes <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/ms-now-shake-up-ali-velshi-11th-hour-morning-joe-daytime-1236692201\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"reported by Variety\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69bbc03fe4b0411b809f9b31\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/ms-now-shake-up-ali-velshi-11th-hour-morning-joe-daytime-1236692201\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\">reported by Variety<\/a>, \u201cThe 11th Hour\u201d host Stephanie Ruhle will move to a two-hour program starting at 9 a.m. She will be replaced on \u201c11th Hour\u201d by Ali Velshi. \u201cMorning Joe\u201d is cutting back an hour to make room for Ruhle, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/chris-hayes\">Chris Hayes<\/a>\u2019 \u201cAll In\u201d is returning to Mondays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>In other developments, Chris Jansing will be reassigned to become MS NOW\u2019s chief political reporter, and Alicia Menendez will get a program airing from noon to 2 p.m. weekdays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The overhaul takes effect in June, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/ms-now-new-line-up-stephanie-ruhle-1236758951\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Deadline noted\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69bbc03fe4b0411b809f9b31\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/ms-now-new-line-up-stephanie-ruhle-1236758951\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"4\">Deadline noted<\/a>. Cabrera said she will remain at the anchor desk for a few more months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI am confident that these changes will make what is already a successful lineup even stronger in the future,\u201d Kutler said in a widely reported memo to staffers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>She also noted that \u201coverall, we expect to have more people working at MS NOW by the end of 2026 than we do today.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"cli cli-related-articles js-cet-subunit\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ana Cabrera, MS NOW\u2019s 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. \u201cI\u2019ve decided to make a change, and I am leaving MS NOW,\u201d she said. \u201cThroughout my career, I\u2019ve always sought the best opportunities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2337976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[452888,452889],"class_list":["post-2337975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-ana-cabrera","tag-msnbc-ms-now"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MS-NOW-Anchor-Is-Out-Amid-News-Networks-Major-Shakeup.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337977,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337975\/revisions\/2337977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}