Rashida Jones, the president of MSNBC, announced Tuesday she will step down from her position.

Jones led the cable news network for four years.

“I came to this decision over the holidays while reflecting on our remarkable journey and the many successes we’ve achieved together as a team. This has been the most rewarding chapter of my professional career and I am immensely proud of what we have accomplished, which has been made possible only by you,” Jones told staff in a memo, according to NBC News.

MSNBC president Rashida Jones stepping down https://t.co/5EmQjP16at pic.twitter.com/HgjiKJp9FF

— New York Post (@nypost) January 14, 2025

Per NBC News:

The announcement comes nearly two months after Comcast announced a plan to spin off most of its cable TV networks into a separate publicly traded company, currently known as SpinCo. The new company will include MSNBC, CNBC, the USA Network, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and the Golf Channel.

Jones took charge of MSNBC in February 2021 after the inauguration of President Joe Biden and the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. She drove MSNBC to ratings triumphs on major political nights.

She retained and signed new long-term deals with the network’s top talent, including Rachel Maddow. She also created a live event series; relaunched a new mobile app and premium subscription series; and made investments in other network digital offerings.

MSNBC has seen a post-election ratings dip. The network still ended last year as the No. 2 network across cable, with 807,000 average viewers daily and 1.3 million viewers in the prime-time hours.

BREAKING NEWS: MSNBC boss Rashida Jones exits network days before Trump returns to White Househttps://t.co/kZooSzjUaX

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 14, 2025

Rashida Jones, who has served as president of MSNBC since early 2021, announced internally on Tuesday morning that she will be leaving her role “to pursue new opportunities.” https://t.co/xHByN4xGz8

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 14, 2025

From the Associated Press:

Jones, in a memo to staff, said that she is leaving to “pursue new opportunities.” She’ll be replaced on an interim basis by Rebecca Kutler, a former CNN executive who joined MSNBC in 2022.

In Jones’ tenure, MSNBC has generally displaced CNN as the second-rated cable news-focused network behind Fox News Channel. Its ratings are sharply down since Donald Trump’s election.

MSNBC’s lineup has remained fairly consistent since Jones, the first Black executive to lead a cable news network, moved from NBC News to take over there. Former Biden administration press secretary Jen Psaki is her highest-profile addition.

In November, Comcast announced it was breaking MSNBC and CNBC away from NBC News into its own company, led by executive Mark Lazarus, meaning Jones was answering to new corporate leadership.