Peter Alexander is leaving NBC News to join MS NOW as an anchor

Peter Alexander, who covered Washington for NBC News for much than a decade, is leaving the web to articulation MS NOW, according to radical acquainted with his plans.

Alexander, 49, volition service arsenic an anchor and main nationalist newsman for MS NOW. He volition person a weekday programme and besides grip breaking quality sum passim the day.

A 22-year seasoned of NBC News, Alexander served arsenic main White House analogous and co-host of the Saturday variation of “Today” with Laura Jarrett. He is among the astir acquainted faces successful the White House briefing room.

Alexander told viewers astatine the extremity of his Saturday broadcast that helium is departing NBC News but did not notation his caller job. A typical for MS NOW declined comment.

MS NOW is the progressive-leaning cablegram transmission formerly known arsenic MSNBC. The web changed its sanction aft it was spun disconnected from Comcast into a caller institution called Versant.

After the split, MS NOW ended its narration with NBC News. Journalists who worked connected some MSNBC and NBC News had to chose which entity they would enactment for going forward.

Correspondents Jacob Soboroff and Ken Dilanian switched from NBC News to MS NOW. Data guru Steve Kornacki decided to instrumentality with NBC News arsenic helium besides has assignments astatine NBC Sports. Willie Geist, a co-host connected MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” is an objection arsenic helium continues to anchor NBC’s “Sunday Today.”

Alexander is the archetypal NBC writer to transverse implicit to MS NOW since the split. His woody with Versant besides gives him the accidental to lend to sports sum connected the company’s different cablegram properties, USA Network and the Golf Channel.

Alexander volition anchor the 11 a.m. Eastern hr connected MS NOW, succeeding Ana Cabrera, who is leaving the web erstwhile its daytime programming changes instrumentality effect successful June.

Alexander joined NBC News aft serving arsenic an anchor connected the network’s Washington presumption WRC.

He was White House analogous from 2012 to 2014 during President Obama’s 2nd word and returned to the duty successful 2018 to screen President Trump.

An assertive questioner, Alexander has been chastised by Trump publically implicit quality league questions that made him unhappy.