UPDATED: David Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for international reporting, is joining MSNBC as senior national security reporter following a tenure at NBC News as senior executive editor of national security and law.
Rohde is the new hire by MSNBC as it prepares to complete its split from Comcast. On Monday, the network marked the first day of no longer relying on NBC News correspondents and crews in Washington, D.C., having ended those ties elsewhere earlier this month. The spinoff of MSNBC and other cable networks into Versant is expected to be completed later this year.
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Rohde previously was the executive editor and writer at The New Yorker, a national security editor and foreign affairs columnist for Reuters and a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of five books, including his most recent, Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy.
NBC News said that Carol Lee will become managing editor of national security, effective immediately, and Colleen Long will become editorial director of national security, starting on Jan. 5.
Rohde was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his Christian Science Monitor series on the mass execution of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica during the war in Bosnia. He was part of the team of reporters for The New York Times who won the Pulitzer in 2009 for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Rohde was a Pulitzer finalist in 2010 for a five-part New York Times series on his seven-month captivity with the Taliban. The series won a number of other awards, including the George Polk award.
MSNBC has been recruiting for about 100 roles across the network, including newsgathering, digital, audio and specials. As part of the split, MSNBC will rebrand as MS immediately.
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