MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler has revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Kutler shared the news with company employees on the editorial call on Wednesday morning after previously disclosing the information to other MSNBC executives and top NBCUniversal brass.
After sharing that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, Rebecca Kutler stated that her prognosis for recovery was promising, and that she would only expect to be away from the network for a short period of time as she sought treatment.
MSNBC is currently in the midst of separating from NBC News as part of a spin-off featuring the cable brands of NBCUniversal being placed in their own company, Versant.
On October 6th, MSNBC and CNBC stopped utilizing NBC News for domestic and international coverage from its correspondents and production crews. Beginning on Monday, October 20th, MSNBC will be completely independent and separated from NBC News. MSNBC will also transition away from the branding it has used for nearly three decades, switching to MS NOW in November.
Versant and its full complement of cable channels — which includes CNBC — expects to be officially independent from Comcast and NBCUniversal on January 1st.
Rebecca Kutler was named President of the network in February, succeeding Rashida Jones, who had led the network since 2021. She joined MSNBC in 2022 as Senior Vice President of Content Strategy before ascending to the network’s top role.
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