{"id":570416,"date":"2026-03-28T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570416\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:38:08","slug":"peter-alexander-to-exit-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570416\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Alexander to Exit NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPeter Alexander<\/a>, one of the hardest working TV-news correspondents in the sector, will leave his longtime home at NBC News<\/a>, he announced to viewers Saturday morning during a weekend telecast of \u201cToday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexander has for years shouldered the logistical challenge of co-anchoring the Saturday broadcast of \u201cToday\u201d and serving as NBC News\u2019 chief White House correspondent. Those duties often have him working sources in Washington during the week, then traveling up to New York City for \u201cToday\u201d duties. Overall, he has logged 15 years on the White House beat and worked \u201cToday\u201d weekends since 2018.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPeter has been a trusted presence with great range across NBC News, and a friend to so many across the Washington Bureau, \u2018Today\u2019 and the broader NBC News team,\u201d said Chloe Arensberg, NBC News\u2019 Washington Bureau Chief, and Matt Carluccio, executive producer of weekend broadcasts of \u201cToday,\u201d in a memo to staffers on Saturday. \u201cWe are grateful for all his contributions and wish him the best.\u201d During an emotional segment Saturday, Alexander cited an interest in being around more for his two young children, after missing more than 200 Friday nights to prepare for his weekend role.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexander declined to specify where he might be working next, but MS NOW has an open anchor slot for its 11 a.m. hour on weekdays. The Versant-backed network, once a corporate sibling to NBC News, recently overhauled its daytime schedule,<\/a> but declined to name a host for its 11 a.m. position, noting that details would surface at a later date.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexander has gained notice for asking reasonable questions of President Trump that for some reason spark blowback. During 2020\u2019s coronavirus pandemic, for example, Alexander asked Trump, then in his first term in the Oval Office,\u00a0\u201cWhat do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?\u201d Trump lashed out. \u201cI say that you\u2019re a terrible reporter!\u201d he retorted.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe journalist told Variety in 2022 <\/a>that he\u2019s had to work at a pretty rapid pace across different administrations. During the first Trump White House, he felt like he was whiplashed by \u201ca 24-hour news cycle every 24 minutes.\u201d Under President Biden, the White House correspondent still had a lot to digest. One early Biden initiative came with a 45-minute background call for reporters. \u201cI could have given you 25 pages on it,\u201d Alexander recalled.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexander initially joined NBC News in 2004, covering a range of stories around the globe and in the U.S. He was assigned to cover the Republican presidential race in 2012 before being named a White House correspondent that year. After a stint as a national correspondent between 2014 and 2016, Alexander returned to the White House beat in 2017, then was named co-chief White House correspondent alongside Kristen Welker. He kept those duties when he was named co-anchor of Saturday \u201cToday\u201d and became the network\u2019s sole chief White House correspondent when Welker was elevated to moderator of \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAlexander has in recent months expressed a desire for new challenges, according to two people familiar with the matter, but with Welker faring well at \u201cMeet the Press\u201d and Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin ensconced at \u201cToday\u201d and Tom Llamas at \u201cNBC Nightly News,\u201d there were not many larger positions for which he could be considered.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther TV-news personnel have made similar moves. Llamas, then the weekend anchor of ABC\u2019s \u201cWorld News Tonight,\u201d left ABC News in January of 2021,<\/a> largely due to the fact that David Muir was firmly in command of weekday anchor duties at the evening-news program. Llamas moved to NBC News and eventually succeeded Lester Holt at \u201cNightly.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tWhile MS NOW recently awarded new two-hour daytime shifts to Stephanie Ruhle and Alicia Menendez, the network has a long history of offering a one-hour program tied to events in Washington, D.C. Andrea Mitchell hosted such a show when the network was called MSNBC for nearly two decades.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tNBC News expects to rely on various staffers to fill Alexander\u2019s roles for an interim period. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Alexander, one of the hardest working TV-news correspondents in the sector, will leave his longtime home at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,20513,280220,45809,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-570416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-nbc-news","12":"tag-peter-alexander","13":"tag-today-show","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}