Peter Alexander, the veteran NBC News chief White House correspondent and the co-anchor of the Saturday edition of the Today show, is leaving the network.
Alexander announced the decision on the Today show Saturday morning.
While it isn’t immediately clear where Alexander is going, there has been speculation in the business that he may be in the mix for the 11 a.m. hour on MS NOW, which was left conspicuously open amid a lineup overhaul announced last week.
A spokesperson for MS Now declined to comment.
A 20-year veteran of NBC News, Alexander has been chief White House correspondent for the network since 2023, and has worked as a White House correspondent and a national correspondent for NBC since 2012. He has co-anchored the Saturday edition of Today since 2018.
NBC is expected to name his successor at the weekend morning program in the near future, with other NBC News talent filling in in the meantime.
Alexander is one of the longest-tenured members of the White House press corps, and was working there on Jan. 6, 2021 amid the U.S. Capitol riot. He spoke to The Hollywood Reporter the following day about the experience.
“When I walked out yesterday, I put my mask on my face, my bag over my shoulder, I have my security guy with me and put my head down because as a correspondent who covers the White House, we knew not to make eye contact with these folks who were, as they indicated, out to get folks,” Alexander said. “As I marched through them, they were yelling ‘stop the steal!, stop the f-ing steal!’ and repeating this language that they have been marinating in from the president, and from different parts of the media universe.”
