NBC Nightly News executive producer Meghan Rafferty will exit the evening newscast to join Versant, the forthcoming Comcast spinoff that will include most of the company’s cable TV brands.Rafferty will become vp of news standards for Versant, a job tasked with setting and maintaining the company’s journalistic standards at both MSNBC and CNBC, and guiding both newsrooms. Rafferty’s hire was announced internally by Brian Carovillano, who leads standards and editorial partnerships for the company.“She will help lead our News Standards Team and guide newsrooms at MSNBC and CNBC to ensure the work is fair, accurate and transparent,” he wrote in a memo. “She’ll collaborate with colleagues across our news platforms, as well as legal and other departments, and she will report to me.”Rafferty has led Nightly News since 2021, working with both Lester Holt and Tom Llamas. The broadcast is expected to name a new ep in the coming weeks, with Rafferty moving to Versant in September. Before joining NBC News Rafferty spent a decade at CNN, producing interviews and stories for journalists like Wolf Blitzer and Christiane Amanpour.Versant has been staffing up ahead of the looming split, which will see MSNBC and CNBC severed from NBC News. In connection with the change, MSNBC has had to build an entire news organization from scratch (with a heavy emphasis on political news), and hiring executives that will be tasked with developing the company’s digital strategy.
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