Veteran NBC News anchor and chief political analyst Chuck Todd is leaving the channel, according to multiple reports on Friday.
“There’s never a perfect time to leave a place that’s been a professional home for so long, but I’m pretty excited about a few new projects that are on the cusp of going from ‘pie in the sky’ to ‘near reality,’” Todd said in a memo obtained by Variety, the first outlet to report the news Friday. “So I’m grateful for the chance to get a jump start on my next chapter during this important moment.”
The memo on “new projects” comes a few weeks after Semafor reported the former “Meet the Press” host has been recently looking at different news outlets to join. Todd said his Friday memo that his “Chuck Toddcast” podcast would be “coming with me” to his next stop.
NBC did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
Todd’s exit from NBC comes after Jim Acosta left CNN earlier this week after 18 years at the channel — the same amount of time Todd was at NBC News. He joined NBC News as its political director in 2007, and later was the moderator on “Meet the Press” from 2014 to 2023.
One of Todd’s more notable exchanges on “Meet the Press” came in 2017, when he had a dustup with White House counselor Kellyanne Conway over her use of the term “alternative facts.” Todd later told TheWrap he regretted some of the faces he made during the interview.
“There’s times in that interview where I had facial expressions,” Todd said in 2017. “You have to be careful.”
More recently, Todd made himself the headline last year when he publicly criticized his employer over its decision to hire former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel as a contributor. Todd told his colleague Kristen Welker that their bosses “owe you an apology” for making her interview McDaniel.
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