Former ‘Meet the Press’ host Chuck Todd leaves NBC

Chuck Todd, the former moderator of “Meet the Press”, leaves NBC News.

Todd, who has become a noticeably less visible presence on the network after he was replaced as “Meet the Press” moderator of Kristen Welker in 2023 after nine years in the chair, announced that he would leave NBC on Friday.

“Today is my last day … at NBC,” Todd said at his podcast.

“I leave a little earlier than we all originally planned, but there’s a reason for it. I’m pretty excited about a few new projects on CUSP,” Todd added. “The podcast comes with me and it doesn’t disappear.”

Todd said he would go on a “small hiatus” and then choose a new home for the podcast.

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Chuck Todd, the former moderator of “Meet the Press,” announced Friday that he is leaving NBC News. (William B. Plowhman/NBC via Getty Images)

Todd, who has been at the heart of NBC News’ political coverage for 18 years, first joined the network in 2007. There has been extensive speculation that Todd was looking for a new opportunity after seeing his role on NBC being scaled back in they later years.

“We are grateful for Chuck’s many contributions to our political coverage during his nearly two-year-old career on NBC News and for his deep commitment to meeting the press and its sustained legacy. We wish him all the best in his next endeavor, “A NBC News -speaker Told variety.

NBC News did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.

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Chuck Todd has not held back from criticizing media leaders, including his now-earlier NBC executives. (Screenshot/NBC News)

Todd has not held back from criticizing media leaders, including his now-recently NBC executives, in recent months.

In December, the free-speaking Todd said he would have felt “abandoned” if he was George Stephanopoulos under the legal dispute leading to ABC News settling with the then president-elected Donald Trump for a total of $ 15 million.

“This was great for me and definitely a gut for anyone who works at a larger media company because I think it sets a precedent that will be very difficult to get out of potentially,” Todd told Substacker Chris Cillizza.

Todd also criticized NBC News in particular for hiring former Republican national committee chairman Ronna McDaniel as an analyst in March 2024. He openly questioned his managers to hire McDaniel and to put Welker in the awkward position by interviewing her around earlier 2020 – Election rhetorical.

“Let me handle the elephant in the room,” Todd Welker told in March. “I think our bosses owe you an excuse to have put you in this situation because I don’t know what to believe.”

Todd said that many of the network’s relationship with RNC under McDaniel’s leadership “had been met with gas lights” and “character assassination,” and he referred to the internal tumult of journalists at NBC News who were apoplectic over McDaniel’s employment. McDaniel’s contract was terminated less than a week later.

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Fox News Digital’s Jeffrey Clark and Joshua Q. Nelson contributed to this report.