Natalie Korach

1 day ago | vanityfair.com | Natalie Korach

“The mission of MSNBC remains the same, regardless of who’s in office—lead with the facts, share context,” Alicia Menendez tells Vanity Fair of covering a second Trump term in a new role for the network. “We are covering this administration without fear, without favor, and with a lot of coffee.”Menendez, Symone Sanders Townsend, and Michael Steele are all making the big move to MSNBC prime time from their weekend panel program, cohosting a new 7 p.m. show titled The Weeknight.

3 days ago | vanityfair.com | Natalie Korach

Just over a month into Donald Trump’s second term, press secretary Karoline Leavitt stood behind the podium in the briefing room and triumphantly announced that the administration was “going to give the power back to the people” by taking over the White House Correspondents’ Association’s traditional role of determining the daily press pool, the small group of journalists who cover the president’s words and actions in more intimate settings for the larger press corps.

1 week ago | vanityfair.com | Natalie Korach

Vivian Schiller is familiar with Republican calls to defund public media. When Schiller, the former president and CEO of NPR, resigned in 2011, following the controversial firing of Juan Williams and video surfacing of a fundraising executive criticizing Tea Party lawmakers, the funding debate in Washington, which had been simmering for decades, got reignited.

1 week ago | vanityfair.com | Natalie Korach

Joe Weisenthal loves “watching the line go up on a chart,” and Tracy Alloway has “existential angst” about the state of the world. Together, the financial journalists—who cohost Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast and cowrite a newsletter—were ideally situated to cover the market meltdown caused by Donald Trump’s tariff rollout and abrupt reversal. Both of them have been working on very little sleep, with Alloway telling me she’s been staying up till around 2 a.m. each night.

1 week ago | vanityfair.com | Natalie Korach

Around 15 minutes to airtime, Kaitlan Collins got some breaking news out of the White House. Donald Trump’s team was seeking to clarify his remarks earlier that day regarding an executive order invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, the subject of yet another court fight early in his presidency.