PERSON: Rashida Jones (MSNBC)
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President
Biography
Rashida Jones (née Adkins; born 1980 or 1981) is the president of the cable news network MSNBC. She is the first Black woman to lead a major cable news network.
Jones was born to Richard and Alice Adkins, the oldest of three children. She grew up in York, Pennsylvania. The family later moved to Richmond, Virginia, where she attended Henrico High School and became editor of the student newspaper.
Jones attended Hampton University, majoring in broadcast journalism. She graduated from Hampton in 2002 with a degree in Mass Media Arts. In 2022, Jones established a scholarship fund at Hampton University for journalism students.
In 2002, while a senior in college, she worked as a morning show producer at WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia. After several years there, she moved to The Weather Channel as a weekend producer, and became director of live programming in 2009.
Jones later worked at WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina, as news director, then moved to New York City as an executive producer for daytime shows at MSNBC. Later roles included managing editor at MSNBC and senior vice president of specials for NBC News and MSNBC, in which she managed dayside and weekend news programming on MSNBC, as well as leading coverage of breaking news and major events across NBC News and MSNBC. Jones expanded the town-hall concept to a wider audience, including a criminal justice special filmed at Sing Sing correctional facility. While a senior vice president at NBC News and MSNBC, she led a shift from election coverage to a focus on Covid-19.
On February 1, 2021, Jones succeeded Phil Griffin as the president of MSNBC and became the first African-American woman to run a major cable news network.
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Jones was born to Richard and Alice Adkins, the oldest of three children. She grew up in York, Pennsylvania. The family later moved to Richmond, Virginia, where she attended Henrico High School and became editor of the student newspaper.
Jones attended Hampton University, majoring in broadcast journalism. She graduated from Hampton in 2002 with a degree in Mass Media Arts. In 2022, Jones established a scholarship fund at Hampton University for journalism students.
In 2002, while a senior in college, she worked as a morning show producer at WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia. After several years there, she moved to The Weather Channel as a weekend producer, and became director of live programming in 2009.
Jones later worked at WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina, as news director, then moved to New York City as an executive producer for daytime shows at MSNBC. Later roles included managing editor at MSNBC and senior vice president of specials for NBC News and MSNBC, in which she managed dayside and weekend news programming on MSNBC, as well as leading coverage of breaking news and major events across NBC News and MSNBC. Jones expanded the town-hall concept to a wider audience, including a criminal justice special filmed at Sing Sing correctional facility. While a senior vice president at NBC News and MSNBC, she led a shift from election coverage to a focus on Covid-19.
On February 1, 2021, Jones succeeded Phil Griffin as the president of MSNBC and became the first African-American woman to run a major cable news network.
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