Psaki, who plans to leave the White House later this year, has been courted by several broadcasting networks looking to add her.
Psaki is expected to depart the White House later this spring, perhaps as early as next month.
While her deal with MSNBC is not finalized, it is expected that she will host a program for MSNBC’s streaming hub on Peacock, and will appear across MSNBC programming as an analyst.
Axios first reported Psaki’s MSNBC deal, noting that she was working with White House lawyers to make sure the talks with MSNBC didn’t violate ethics rules. An MSNBC spokesperson declined to comment.
Earlier this year MSNBC hired Symone Sanders, who had been the chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris, to host a show for Peacock and a weekend program on the linear channel. Sanders’ show is set to debut May 7.
Assuming Psaki’s deal gets signed, MSNBC will have hired the pubic faces of both President Biden and Vice President Harris in the span of just a couple months.
Psaki has been press secretary since Biden took office last January, and brought back the tradition of daily on-camera briefings for reporters, which became far less frequent during the Trump administration. She had been taking meetings with multiple networks in recent months, including CNN, but MSNBC appears to have made the most compelling pitch.
“You can’t get rid of me quite yet,” she quipped when asked in the briefing room at the end of February whether she had plans to leave the White House.
White House press officials have long shuttled between the briefing room and paid roles for TV news channels. Two of Trump’s former press secretaries, Kayleigh McEnany and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, have served as Fox News contributors, while Sean Spicer hosts a show for Newsmax. Obama’s former press secretary Robert Gibbs worked for MSNBC and NBC News as a contributor, while two of Bush’s former press secretaries, Tony Snow and Dana Perino, would go on to host shows for Fox News.
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