After nearly three decades anchoring weekends at MS NOW, formerly known as MSNBC, legendary news anchor Alex Witt is bidding farewell on Sunday, September 6.
The host of Alex Witt Reports, a mainstay on the network since 1999, has been showered with accolades from her fans and colleagues, including fellow weekend anchor Ayman Mohyeldin, who posted a lengthy social media tribute to Witt hours before her final show.
“After nearly 30 years at MS NOW, Alex Witt is retiring,” Mohyeldin wrote. “No other anchor has hosted more hours of news. … But Alex’s greatest quality isn’t her remarkable stamina. It is her humanity: her passion for journalism, her generosity toward her colleagues and the care she brings to everyone – and everything – around her.”
In June, MS NOW president Rebecca Kutler revealed in a staff memo that Witt, 65, had decided to “conclude her tenure with the company later this year, following an extraordinary career.” She also noted that Witt had “anchored more hours on MS NOW than any other anchor in our network’s history.”
Witt’s departure coincides with multiple programming changes made to MS NOW’s weekends over the summer, including the launch of reporter Jacob Sorloff’s new show, Connect with Jacob Sorloff, and replacing its live weekend primetime shows with pre-recorded podcasts, per Variety.
Who Will Replace Alex Witt on MS NOW?
Beginning on September 12, award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton will take over Witt’s anchor chair with her new show, The Assignment with Antonia Hylton, airing Saturdays and Sundays from 1-4 p.m. ET, per Deadline.
Hylton paid tribute to Witt during a segment on Stephanie Ruhle‘s weekday show, Money, Power, Politics, calling her a “legend and the Mayor of MS NOW.”
View this post on Instagram“Alex Witt has chosen, after 30 legendary years here, to have this weekend be her last weekend of shows,” Hylton continued. “And everybody who has ever met Alex Witt, watched her broadcast, you don’t need me to tell you that she is the epitome of grace under pressure, the queen of managing crazy breaking news.”
After her final show on September 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. ET, Witt will periodically appear as a fill-in anchor for the remainder of the year, per Variety. After that, Witt told the outlet she will likely move from New York to her native California and may take a stab at writing a book or teaching.
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