There had long been rumblings inside 30 Rock that
Phil Griffinâs time as president of MSNBC was drawing to a close, but last weekâs announcement that
Rashida Jones was taking the helm still came as a surprise to many. âNobody really expected it to be a Monday in December a few weeks before the holidays,â a producer at MSNBC told me. The shift from Griffin, 64, to Jones, 39, marks a generational change, as well as a historic one. Jones, a senior vice president for news at MSNBC and NBC News, will be the first Black woman leading a major TV news network.