NBC News correspondent Ali Vitali will be taking over as host of MSNBC’s “Way Too Early” and the show’s current anchor, Jonathon Lemire, will be moved to “Morning Joe,” according to a report.
The Capitol Hill correspondent will take the reins at “Way Too Early” on Jan. 6 at 5 a.m. Lemire, meanwhile, will provide commentary as a co-host during the 9 a.m. hour of “Morning Joe,” co-hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, according to Variety.
“I’ll continue working my sources and bringing viewers into the halls of power with fresh reporting and news-making interviews from Capitol Hill and across Washington,” Vitali told Variety in a statement.
Vitali worked as an embed during President-elect Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, later reporting on the White House for NBC’s digital coverage and then as a political reporter and finally a correspondent on Capitol Hill. She reported on-site at Capitol Hill when then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was pushed out.
The longtime NBC employee rose through the ranks after first joining the company in 2010 as an intern, working for NBC ad sales, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and finally MSNBC, according to her LinkedIn.
She is the author of the 2022 book “Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House…Yet.”
Lemire, who is also the White House bureau chief at Politico, hosted MSNBC’s early morning show for just over three years.
Previously, he covered the Trump and Biden administrations as a White House reporter for The Associated Press. He also worked as a reporter at the New York Daily News for 12 years, according to his LinkedIn.
He is the author of the 2022 book “The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020.”
Parent company Comcast is experiencing its own restructuring as it moves forward with plans to spin off its cable channels, including MSNBC and CNBC, into a separate company over the next 12 months. The name of the new company is not yet known.