{"id":551114,"date":"2026-03-28T21:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/551114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T21:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:11:06","slug":"peter-alexander-announces-departure-from-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/551114\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Alexander Announces Departure From NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPeter Alexander<\/a>, NBC News<\/a>\u2018 chief White House correspondent and co-host of Today on Saturdays, said that he is departing the network.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexander, who has been with the network for 22 years, cited personal reasons, but sources say that he is expected to join MS NOW, which formerly was NBC News\u2019 sister network.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Today on Saturday, Alexander called the show \u201cliterally my happy place,\u201d but talked of the demands of trekking each Friday evening from his home in the Washington area to New York.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been away from home more than 80 nights in the last seven months, more than 220 Friday nights, 220 Fridays nights away from my family in the last seven years,\u201d Alexander told viewers on Saturday. \u201cSo it\u2019s a limited window before my daughters lose interest in hanging out with me. It\u2019s happened quick. I\u2019m eager to carve out a better balance bwteen my personal and professional lives and to challenge myself with something new.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAn MS NOW spokesperson declined to comment. The network recently announced an overhaul of its daytime schedule, with an 11 a.m. anchor slot still unfilled, but it has been building out its own newsroom since the split from Comcast. <\/p>\n

\n\tChloe Arensberg, senior vice president and Washington bureau chief, and Matt Carluccio, executive producer of Today, said in a memo, \u201cPeter has been a trusted presence with great range across NBC News, and a friend to so many across the Washington Bureau, Today and the broader NBC News team.\u00a0
We are grateful for all his contributions and wish him the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexander has been Saturday Today co-host since 2018, and served as co-chief White House correspondent along with Kristen Welker starting in 2021. He later became sole chief White House correspondent when Welker departed to become moderator of Meet the Press.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Los Angeles Times first reported on Alexander\u2019s plans to join MS NOW. <\/p>\n

\n\tMost recently, Alexander led coverage of the U.S. Voperation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and, some weeks later, he interviewed the Iranian foreign minister, just hours after the U.S. and Iran launched attacks against the Tehran regime. Alexander is the winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexander said on Today, \u201cI\u2019ve had the most incredible experience over 22 years with NBC News,\u201d adding that he has worked with \u201cthe most professional, the most dedicated journalists in the business. I could not be more grateful for everyone one of them, for the leaders and mentors here who have believed in me and given me more opportunities that I ever dreamed of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Alexander, NBC News\u2018 chief White House correspondent and co-host of Today on Saturdays, said that he is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5109,88,61226,245021],"class_list":["post-551114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-electionline","tag-entertainment","tag-nbc-news","tag-peter-alexander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}