Chuck Todd To Exit NBC News

[ificandream]

Source: Variety

By Brian Steinberg
Jan 31, 2025 7:02am PT

Chuck Todd, the former "Meet the Press" moderator, is leaving NBC News, he told colleagues in a memo issued Friday, a move he's making in order to pursue ventures outside the NBCUniversal empire.

Todd had in recent weeks been meeting with other news outlets and potential employers, according to people familiar with the matter. His current contract with NBC News had been expected to lapse at some point after the 2024 election.

"There's never a perfect time to leave a place that's been a professional home for so long, but I'm pretty excited about a few new projects that are on the cusp of going from 'pie in the sky' to 'near reality,' Todd told NBC News staffers in a memo Friday. "So I'm grateful for the chance to get a jump start on my next chapter during this important moment."

He said his "Chuck Toddcast" podcast would be "coming with me," and urged colleagues to "stay tuned for an announcement about its new home soon." Todd plans "to continue to share my reporting and unique perspective of covering politics with data and history as important baselines in understanding where we were, where we are and where we're going."

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While Todd may not have been popular among everyone, the changes in journalism linked to Trump coming back into power should be frightening to everyone. America needs real journalism now. Moves like this are giving more power to idiots like Fox "News". Americans need more real information, not less.

[niyad]

1. byeeeeee, toady, you won't be missed.

[magicarpet]

2. Bye bye.

[Botany]

3. Chuck Todd gone?

We will have to leave it there.

[louis-t]

4. See ya.

Never liked him.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. :

[hlthe2b]

6. Chuck Todd has been bending the knee to MAGA for a decade now, so somehow I don't think he was going

to become our journalistic "savior"...

[58Sunliner]

7. Who will tell him what to think?

[Biglinda 52]

8. Don't Let the Door.......

[BumRushDaShow]

9. "America needs real journalism now."

It does but Schmuck Toad was NOT it. It's exhausting to hear these people doing nothing more than regurgitating RW talking points and attempting to legitimize and validate them in order to carry out a "discussion". IOW, they have been completely discarding ALL common sense.

I like people like the Guardian's youngin' Hugo Lowell, a new generation of up and comings.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Who?

[robleb]

11. good ridence

[lapfog_1]

12. needs more real information

but you weren't getting any real information from Chuck Todd, only propaganda.

Mark my words he will end up as the token "liberal" on Faux propaganda channel or Newsmax

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Ya had a fantastic run, Chuck.

Too bad about democracy.

[Traildogbob]

14. When they told him he is out

Did he have a follow up question?

[kacekwl]

15. I hear there will be many openings

in trumps government soon. Give it a try Chuck.

[nowforever]

16. Chuck

The butter knife of reporting.

[Ray Bruns]

17. Oh no! Please stop! Don't go!

https://m.

[angrychair]

18. His new move

Is likely going to Fox or OAN or something. Screw that guy.

[yardwork]

24. Yeah. Where will the toad wash up next.

[wolfie001]

19. Both-Siderism personified

Go fuck off upChuck Toad

[Prairie Gates]

20. Who will notice?

Garbage goes on the curb in NYC, right?

[hatrack]

21. Good. Leave.

GTFO you useless toady.

[LilyBelle]

22. Is this the longest goodbye ever?

Get lost already you hack.

[Deep State Witch]

23. Bye, Felicia

Don't let the door hit you in the ass.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

25. Good

[FSogol]

26. His record of never asking a follow-up question remains unbroken!

[sop]

27. I guess we'll find out who the real Chuck Todd is now: a true journalist, or a careerist corporate media hack.

[kimbutgar]

28. Watch him pop up on fox with an identical Sunday show

[spooky3]

29. Gift link to WaPo article on this--you'll like the reader comments:

https://wapo.st/40VdYsz

[CTyankee]

30. Can't access article. I tried twice. Gave up in despair...

[spooky3]

31. Ok--I'll try to gift link it again.

[spooky3]

32. Does this work?

https://wapo.st/40VdYsz

[CTyankee]

33. OK! Thanks!

[ificandream]

35. Thanks for this. I think Todd's comments ...

… are an excellent description of what the media is facing these days. I hope he lands somewhere. He is a good journalist. We need his voice out there.

[Paladin]

34. About freaking time. (nt)

[dchill]

36. Chuck Todd - vastly overestimating the batedness of our collective breath.

[sop]

37. "The batedness of our collective breath"