Former “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd is leaving NBC Information after practically 18 years on the community.
Todd mentioned in a memo to NBC Information colleagues that Friday was his final day. He’ll proceed doing his podcast and mentioned he is contemplating new initiatives, however provided no particulars.
He joined NBC Information as political director in 2007 and was “Meet the Press” moderator from 2014 to 2023, earlier than giving technique to Kristen Welker. The function made him one of many extra seen journalists in Washington and, as such, an occasional goal of President Donald Trump and his supporters.
Todd was a pacesetter within the on-air protest final yr that scuttled the hiring of former Republican Occasion chair Ronna McDaniel as an NBC Information contributor.
In his memo to colleagues, Todd mentioned the information media has a lot work to do in successful again the belief of shoppers, “and I’m convinced the best place to start is from the bottom up” with entrepreneurship.
“National media can’t win trust back without having a robust partner locally and trying to game algorithms is no way to inform and report,” he wrote. “People are craving community and that’s something national media or the major social media companies can’t do as well as local media.”
Reporting is essential to successful again public assist, he mentioned. “If you do this job seeking popularity, or to simply be an activist,” he said, “you are doing this job incorrectly.”
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