Ex-Fox Business EVP to run “Morning Joe”

Kevin Magee, the former executive vice president of Fox Business Network, has been hired to oversee MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” reports Alex Weprin of Politico.

Weprin reports, “Magee will work alongside the show’s executive producer, Alex Korson.

“Magee left Fox Business in 2014. At MSNBC, he replaces Michael Weisman, who currently serves as executive in charge of the program.

“MSNBC is in the midst of transforming its lineup to focus more on news programming, and is said to have grand ambitions for ‘Morning Joe,’ though exactly how the show may evolve remains to be seen. One option on the table involves expanding the show beyond the 6-9 a.m. hours in which it currently broadcasts.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.