Laura Jarrett will join Peter Alexander as co-anchor of NBC News’ “Saturday Today” starting Sept. 9. She is set to replace Kristen Welker, who has been tapped to host “Meet the Press” in the fall.

Jarrett, who joined the network in January 2023, has been covering the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court and providing analysis on legal issues, law enforcement and major breaking news stories. Prior to NBC, Jarrett worked at CNN, where she spent six years covering the DOJ and legal affairs and served as the co-anchor of “Early Start.”

Her coverage has included stories such as the Alex Murdaugh trial, the Idaho college murders case, the Supreme Court’s decision overruling Roe v. Wade, the Congressional investigation into Jan. 6, the investigations into former President Trump and the legal battles over Covid-19 vaccine mandates.

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NBC is adding a new face to its cadre of “Today” anchors.

Laura Jarrett, who just joined NBC News in November of last year, has been named the new co-anchor of the Saturday broadcast of the network’s “Today” morning program. She will co-anchor with Peter Alexander, NBC News’ chief White House correspondent.

Jarrett has enjoyed a fast track since joining NBC. She came aboard from CNN in January to fill the shoes of veteran justice correspondent Pete Williams, taking on the role of senior legal correspondent, which she will retain. At CNN. she had been co-anchor of the early-morning program “Early Start,” which she worked on with Christine Romans. Romans is expected to join NBC News in the near future.

Jarrett will replace Kristen Welker, who is slated to take on the lead role at “Meet the Press” in the fall.

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NBC News is shaking up its Saturday edition of the Today show.

The network says that Laura Jarrett will join the program as co-anchor, beginning Sept. 9. In addition, the program will relocate from Washington D.C. (where it has originated since 2020) and move back to the Today studio in New York’s Rockefeller Plaza.

The elevation of Jarrett comes as Saturday Today co-anchor Kristen Welker prepares to take over Meet the Press in September. Jarrett will join the show’s other current co-anchor Peter Alexander behind the desk.

Jarrett, who only joined the network earlier this year, will also continue to work as NBC’s senior legal correspondent, with Alexander continuing as chief White House correspondent. Jarrett previously worked at CNN, where she covered legal stories and the DOJ, and anchored Early Start.

“In her first months at NBC News, Laura has quickly made her mark with tireless reporting, sharp legal insight and powerful storytelling,...

John Berman and Poppy Harlow will co-anchor CNN Newsroom from 9-11 Am, replacing Carol Costello, who said yesterday she’s moving to Hln. Kate Bolduan, who co-anchored At This Hour at 11 Am with Berman, will now anchor solo. The new morning schedule was announced by CNN chief Jeff Zucker, effective February 6. Harlow has been a CNN weekend anchor since 2015. Meanwhile, Dave Briggs joins CNN in February as co-anchor of Early Start alongside Christine Romans, beginning…...

CNN announced a new dayside lineup on Tuesday that will pair popular hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow for “CNN Newsroom” each weekday from 9-11 a.m. Et, replacing Carol Costello who will move to Hln. Berman’s former co-host, Kate Bolduan, will now anchor “At This Hour” alone at 11 a.m. Et starting on Feb. 6, while Dave Briggs will join CNN to take over Berman’s “Early Start” gig. Briggs, who will join CNN on Feb. 23, was the co-anchor of “Weekend Fox & Friends” for five years. He most recently co-hosted a program on the NBC Sports Network and was also.

CNN has canceled Crossfire—again—amid reports of around 300 layoffs at the network. The bipartisan political debate show had been on an extended hiatus since late July when the news broke on Wednesday. All four hosts—Stephanie Cutter, Newt Gingrich, S.E. Cupp and Van Jones—will remain with the network as political commenters, a source confirmed to EW. Much of the production staff has been absorbed into other roles within the network. Also being phased out are Sanjay Gupta MD, CNN Money with Christine Romans, and Unguarded with Rachel Nichols. Nichols will remain on the network as its sole sports anchor and host primetime specials,...

CNN shook up its daytime schedule on Friday, removing the international series “Around the World” with Suzanne Malveaux and Michael Holmes and instituting a new anchor team for the 11 a.m. Et hour. Also read: CNN’s Zain Asher Gets Emotional Over Brother Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Oscar Nod, Tragic Crash That Killed Their Father Beginning Feb. 10, “Early Start” anchor John Berman and “New Day” anchor Michaela Pereira will co-anchor CNN’s 11 a.m. hour, with “Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield” shifting to noon Et, the timeslot currently occupied by “Around the World.” “Around the World” co-host Suzanne Malveaux will shift to national correspondent for.

CNN‘s Around The World is toast and its hosts re-deployed — Ashleigh Banfield back to Washington as national correspondent and Michael Holmes back full-time at CNN International. It’s part of CNN’s daytime shakeup announced this morning. Starting Monday, February 10, John Berman and Michaela Pereira will co-anchor CNN’s 11 Am hour while continuing to anchor Early Start and New Day, respectively. Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield is moving from 11 Am to noon. Wolf Blitzer will continue to anchor the 1 Pm hour; he will focus on politics, breaking news and international news. He will also continue to anchor The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer weekdays from 5-6:30 Pm. Carol Costello will continue to anchor 9-11 Am and Brooke Baldwin will continue to anchor 2-4 Pm. Click over for the complete weekday schedule: CNN Weekday Schedule Beginning February 10 (all times Et): 9-11 Am – Carol Costello 11 Am-noon – John Berman and...

CNN's chief business correspondent Christine Romans will be joining John Berman as co-anchor of the network's 5 to 6 a.m. newscast, Early Start, it was announced Monday. Romans replaces Zoraida Sambolin, who announced she was leaving the network last month. Sambolin previously made headlines for her public fight with breast cancer.   Photos: Cable News' Biggest Hirings, Firings and Moves of 2013  "Given the audience's interest in business news as the day begins, and markets across the globe have been open for hours, Christine will add a great dimension to the program that starts CNN's programming day,"

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Chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans has been named co-anchor of CNN’s early-morning program, Early Start. She will join co-anchor John Berman on the program, which airs weekdays from 5-6 Am Et. Romans will continue in her capacity as the network’s chief business reporter and anchor of CNN’s business programs. “Given the audience’s interest in business news as the day begins, and markets across the globe have been open for hours, Christine will add a great dimension to the program that starts CNN’s programming day,” said Jeff Zucker, President, CNN Worldwide. “Plus, Christine’s fantastic rapport with John makes this a dynamic team for America to wake up to.” In addition, Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul have been named co-anchors of the network’s weekend morning program, New Day Weekend. The program airs from 6-9:30 Am Et on Saturdays and 6–7:30 Am and 8-9 Am Et on Sundays.

Christine Romans is joining John Berman as the co-anchor of CNN’s “Early Start,” and Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul have been named co-anchors of “New Day Weekend,” CNN announced. Look for Romans, CNN’s chief business correspondent, on”Early Start,” which airs weekdays from 5-6 a.m. Et. She will remain the network’s chief business reporter and anchor of CNN’s business programs. Also read: Cable News Ratings 2013: Fox Tops While CNN Slides Into Second “Given the audience’s interest in business news as the day begins, and markets across the globe have been open for hours,...

Zoraida Sambolin signed off CNN’s Early Start this morning; she’s returning to Chicago, where she worked before joining CNN in 2011 from the Windy City’s NBC O&O. Sambolin, who battled breast cancer this year, announced this month she’s returning to be near family. “I’m going to miss CNN,” she said after thanking co-anchor John Berman. “This is a great place led by an incredible man, who has just been remarkable to me – Jeff Zucker – which I have to mention, cause when I got diagnosed with cancer, I want everybody to know, this man walked into my office and basically came with a silver platter and said, ‘However I can help you, whatever I can do, I will’.” Watch here:...

Just months after returning to CNN, Zoraida Sambolin is leaving the news network. Sambolin, co-anchor of CNN’s “Early Start,” will exit the show later this month, with her last day on the job being Dec. 13. Also read: CNN President Jeff Zucker Wants Programming With ‘Attitude,’ Discovery and History Channel Viewers The anchor is vacating her position to return to Chicago. (Prior to coming aboard CNN, Chicago native Sambolin was the Weekday Edition co-anchor at Chicago’s NBC5 News Today.) “Zoraida Sambolin is one of the best journalists in the business. Her insightful reporting, kind nature, strength and resilience are universally admired,...

Zoraida Sambolin, co-anchor of CNN’s Early Start, told viewers that she has breast cancer and credited Angelina Jolie’s public revelation about her health concerns with inspiring her to share her own difficult decision to undergo a double mastectomy.

Sambolin was diagnosed five weeks ago and had been struggling with how to break the news to her co-workers and television audience when Jolie published her story in the New York Times. “Angelina empowered me to share my story,” Sambolin wrote on CNN.com. “I identified with some of the issues she candidly discussed, such as her children, her sexuality and her femininity.

Angelina Jolie is continuing to inspire countless women after revealing she had a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer. One of them being CNN's Early Start host Zoraida Sambolin, who went public with her own breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy plans on the national morning show today. "For a while I have been struggling because I was diagnosed with breast cancer about three weeks ago and I was trying to figure out how do I share this story, how do I tell the viewers that I'm going to be gone for a while, because I have chosen to have a double mastectomy," Sambolin told her cohost John Berman. "Angelina Jolie's story really hit home."  Brad Pitt's...

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie said, in her jawdropping op-ed announcing that she'd had a preventive double mastectomy, that she hoped other women could benefit from her experience. Within hours, that hope was realized when CNN Early Start anchor Zoraida Sambolin announced that she, too, will be undergoing a double mastectomy. Sambolin posted a brief announcement on her Facebook page Tuesday morning, and later spoke on the air, with Carol Costello, about her own decision-making process, and her gratitude to Jolie for helping give her the opportunity to share the tough news.

Following Angelina Jolie's decision to go public about recently undergoing a preventive double mastectomy, CNN anchor Zoraida Sambolin revealed her own plans to receive the same procedure after being diagnosed with cancer.

Sambolin, 47, announced on her CNN program Early Start that she was diagnosed with breast cancer about three weeks ago and will undergo the double mastectomy later this month.

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She got emotional on-air talking about the process. "As a woman, your sexuality and your breasts and how attached you are to them... as a woman. So at the end of the day, it's really difficult to say that I'm thinking about this."

Related: Breast Cancer Hits Home for Brooke Anderson

Sambolin, who said that she'll also receive genetic testing to assess additional cancer risks as part of her surgery, said she's prepared to do whatever she can for the sake of her children. "At the end...

CNN’s revamped morning show now has a title and launch date.

The cable news network’s series will be called New Day and it will get underway June 10 and air from 6-9 a.m. Monday through Friday.

There’s a lot of curiosity around CNN’s plan, since the network’s new chief executive Jeff Zucker launched his career producing NBC’s Today during the 1990s. The CNN show will be hosted by former Good Morning America news anchor Chris Cuomo and CNN reporter Kate Bolduan, who has co-anchored The Situation Room in the late afternoon. Bolduan is only...

The big headlines about Jeff Zucker's 2013 revamping of CNN's lineup have largely centered around his poaching of two of ABC News' biggest names: Jake Tapper and Chris Cuomo. Tapper will reportedly anchor a news broadcast; Cuomo is set to host a new morning show, reportedly co-anchored by Erin Burnett. All of this begs the question: What will happen to pre-Zucker ABC poach John Berman, currently the host of CNN's Early Start?...

Appearing on CNN's Early Start Thursday morning, Pastor Rick Warren told host John Berman that churches are "probably" responsible for some of the negative attitudes towards gays in America. Warren was on CNN to promote the latest version of his book, "A Purpose Driven Life," a devotional Christian book. Warren took the opportunity to again underscore his opposition to same-sex couples, after appearing on Piers Morgan Tonight Tuesday and comparing being gay to taking arsenic and punching someone in the nose.

CNN announced today that its moving hosts Kyra Phillips and Ashleigh Banfield to new time slots. Actually, in Phillips’ case, it’s a new network over on Hln. CNN is also putting former ABC News correspondent John Berman, who joined the network recently, on its Early Start show with Zoraida Sambolin. Berman will also contribute to CNN’s website and other shows. These changes come as CNN was hit with second quarter ratings that show the network falling to a 21-year primetime ratings low. Meanwhile, in the cable anchor musical chairs, Banfield is leaving the early early Am of Early Start, where she and Sambolin have been since November 2011, for CNN Newsroom. Banfield will now host the 11 Am spot for the network. Lastly, Phillips, who has been with CNN nearly 13 years, will leave the 11 Am Newsroom slot and move over to Hln where she will debut a new daytime show later this summer.

A few changes at CNN and Hln have been announced Tuesday morning. First, CNN Newsroom anchor Kyra Phillips will move to Hln to host a new daytime program later this summer. In addition, CNN announced that veteran ABC News correspondent John Berman will join the network to co-anchor Early Start with Zoraida Sambolin. Berman will replace Early Start co-host Ashleigh Banfield, who will move to CNN Newsroom during the day, where she will host the 11 a.m. hour.

Yesterday, CNN Early Start anchor Ashleigh Banfield raised eyebrows and questions alike over her comment that homosexuality is a "lifestyle choice," as opposed to things like pedophilia and incest, which she described as "often" not being choices. The anchor had been responding to a segment on Pastor Curtis Knapp and his statement that the government should put gay individuals to death.

On Thursday morning, Early Start co-anchor Ashleigh Banfield felt compelled to weigh in on a story involving New Hope Baptist Church's Pastor Curtis Knapp, who made headlines for saying that gay individuals should be put to death. After showing a clip of Knapp sharing his point of view and reading a select passage from Leviticus, Banfield appeared upset over the pastor's comparison of homosexuality with things like pedophilia and incest... but perhaps not for the reasons most often espoused.

John Berman is leaving ABC News for CNN where he’ll join the network's 5-7 a.m. program Early Start to anchor alongside Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin. Berman – who spent 17 years at ABC News where he logged countless hours on the political beat including more hours than any other reporter with then-candidate George W. Bush on the 1999 campaign trail – will also contribute to CNN’s other programs including Wolf Blitzer’s The Situation Room. He starts his CNN job in July. In making the announcement on Wednesday, Ken Jautz, CNN executive vp, characterized Berman as “a

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John Berman, who served as a correspondent for ABC News and regular contributor to Good Morning America, joins CNN as an anchor of the morning program Early Start and will contribute reports to various CNN programs including The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, it was announced by Ken Jautz, executive vice president of CNN. CNN’s Early Start, which premiered on January 2, 2012 with hosts Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin, airs weekdays at 5 am to 7 am, Et/Pt. “We are so fortunate to have this talented and seasoned journalist join our morning show and become a regular presence on our air throughout the day. John is a skilled reporter with a passion and personality that shine through, whether he’s covering the political season or his beloved Red Sox,” said Jautz. “John is an exceptional journalist who brings with him the perspective of having covered many of the last two decades most significant stories.

On Friday's edition of CNN's Early Start, anchor Zoraida Sambolin spoke with Democratic strategist Penny Lee, Republican strategist Joel Sawyer and CNN political editor Paul Steinhauser about the endorsement Gop presidential candidate Mitt Romney has managed to rake in, as well as whether the race's "practical choice" is able to drum up the degree of excitement as some of his rivals.

On Tuesday's Early Start, CNN’s Zoraida Sambolin welcomed Bob Buckhorn, the mayor of Tampa, Florida, to speak about the Republican National Convention, which will be held in Tampa this summer. Mayor Buckhorn is excited for the revenue the convention will bring to the city of Tampa; however the same can’t be said regarding the anticipated speakers at the convention.

During an awkward exchange on CNN's Early Start, Ashleigh Banfield grilled Louisiana Senator David Vitter over his prostitution scandal, and compared his affairs to Republican hopeful Newt Gingrich's. "I want you to weigh in on Newt Gingrich and what it's like for a politician having serious baggage trying to be elected," she asked. "The good news is in America, it's not up to CNN, it's up to American people and up to voters," Vitter hit back, comparing Banfield to John King.

Unless you are being awakened with the news that you have just been nominated for an Oscar, it's safe to say that most people would not be happy to receive a random call at 5 in the morning. CNN apparently never got that memo, because, as Jon Stewart mocked on Tuesday's "Daily Show," the 5 a.m. CNN series "Early Start" includes a segment called "Wake 'Em Up," in which hosts Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin cold call famous people whose phone numbers they happen to have. One victim: Kerry Kennedy, daughter of...

Comedian Chuck Nice was scheduled to be a phone guest on CNN's Early Start Monday morning at 6:40 as part of the "Wake 'Em Up" segment. But the show dialed the wrong number, and instead woke up a random man. Host Ashleigh Banfield, not realizing it wasn't Chuck Nice after he said "hello" twice, greeted him with, "Chuck, this is the FBI calling."...