Ken Dilanian will be part of the MSNBC team as the network prepares for its spinoff from Comcast, while Erielle Reshef will join as national correspondent and fill-in anchor.
MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler announced the latest staffing this morning.
Ken Dilanian
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Erielle Reshef
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Dilanian has been NBC News justice and intelligence correspondent since 2023, primarily reporting on the Justice Department. He’s covered justice and national security issues for the past nine years, and has recent broken stories including one on the work habits of FBI director Kash Patel and another on the exodus of lawyers in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. Before joining NBC News, he covered the intelligence community for the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times, and he previously worked at USA Today and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Reshef, who will be based in New York, has been national correspondent at ABC News since 2017. She served as fill-in anchor on Good Morning America and World News Tonight with David Muir, among other shows. She led coverage from the Dominican Republic on the disappearance of a University of Pittsburgh student, and reported from Pittsburgh on the Tree Of Life Synagogue massacre. She reported from the UK on the terror attacks on the London Bridge and the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. She previously was an anchor at KOCO 5 News in Oklahoma City, her hometown.
The network will be spun off later this year along with other cable networks into a new company called Versant. Scott Matthews was hired as MSNBC’s senior vice president of newsgathering, tasked with building a news division as NBC News no longer will be a sister network. Versant will focus on four market segments, including political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf and sports, and genre entertainment.