MSNBC has announced that Ali Vitali will serve as a senior Capitol Hill correspondent for the network as the outlet is spun away from its longtime partnership with NBC News.
Vitali has served as the host of the morning show Way Too Early with Ali Vitali — which airs at 5 AM ET — since the program launched earlier this year.
She had previously covered Congress for NBC News before jumping to the new show at MSNBC, and wrote a book on the 2020 presidential election.
Additionally, MSNBC has also hired former CNN reporter Rosa Flores to serve as a Houston-based correspondent for the network. She’ll cover breaking news throughout Texas and the region, and will contribute to the enterprise reporting performed by the network.
Flores becomes the latest person hired from outside the organization as it builds out its roster of those both in front of and behind the camera amid its new parent company, Versant, splitting off from longtime home Comcast and NBCUniversal.
Part of the split includes MSNBC rebranding to MS NOW, as Comcast ultimately decided not to allow to brand to depart with the “NBC” and Peacock logo branding elements it has utilized for nearly three decades.
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