{"id":158231,"date":"2025-09-24T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158231\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:11:15","slug":"msnbc-taps-sky-news-for-international-reports-as-comcast-spinoff-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158231\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Taps Sky News For International Reports As Comcast Spinoff Nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/msnbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_msnbc_1\" data-tag=\"msnbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a> announced an agreement with Comcast-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sky-news\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sky-news_1\" data-tag=\"sky-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News<\/a> to bring the latest international coverage to U.S. audiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMSNBC has been building up its own newsroom as it prepares to be spun off from Comcast along with other cable channels into a new company, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/versant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_versant_1\" data-tag=\"versant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Versant<\/a>. Rebranded as MS NOW, the network will no longer have NBC News as a sister news organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMSNBC President Rebecca Kutler said in a statement, \u201cIn this moment of consequential and historic news events happening around the world that are rapidly reshaping our collective future, we are honored to bring Sky News\u2019 premium, on-the-ground reporting and roster of top journalists to the MSNBC community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe deal with Sky News starts on Oct. 1. Ian Sherwood, who has had leadership roles at NBC News\u2019 international reporting teams over the past 10 years, will serve as MSNBC\u2019s director of international newsgathering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSky News has 11 international bureaus, including Beijing, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, and Moscow, and a team of more than 500 journalists. Under the deal, MSNBC will be able to draw on Sky News correspondents and experts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDavid Rhodes, executive chairman of Sky News Group, said in a statement, \u201cThis partnership with Versant will put that eyewitness reporting in front of even greater audiences in the U.S. and around the world. We\u2019re delighted to get to work with their creative and entrepreneurial team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMSNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/msnbc-nbc-news-split-1236547021\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced key dates<\/a> in October for when it will no longer rely on NBC News for its coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MSNBC announced an agreement with Comcast-owned Sky News to bring the latest international coverage to U.S. audiences. MSNBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[55926,96,72139,36232,391,56,54,55,72175],"class_list":["post-158231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-electionline","tag-entertainment","tag-msnbc","tag-sky-news","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-versant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}