Yamiche Alcindor, the veteran Washington correspondent who has moderated PBS‘ “Washington Week” since the Spring of 2021. is stepping down from the show, according to a memo sent to staffers Monday.
Alcindor “has now decided to conclude her tenure with the program as she focuses full-time on her work at NBC and on her forthcoming book,” said Sharon Rockefeller, president and CEO of WETA, the Washington, D.C. PBS station that produces the program, in a memo. No replacement for Alcindor has been named as of yet.
Alcindor said via a Tweet Monday that she decided to leave the PBS role “after some very deep and meaningful conversations.” She joined NBC News in late December. She was just the ninth moderator in the program’s history, having succeeded Robert Costa.
“Washington Week,: said Rockefeller, “remains a vital part of our news and public affairs programming for the nation.” WETA will ” draw on the strong roster of journalists at‘PBS NewsHour’and in the Washington press corps to continue this good work. We particularly appreciate the continued dedication of the‘Washington Week’team in producing the program smoothly through this transition.”
Alcindor initially started working for WETA as the White House correspondent for “PBS NewsHour.” Prior to taking that assignment, she worked stints as a national reporter at both The New York Times and USA Today. She has won several awards and is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, which named her the organization’s Journalist of the Year in 2020. Sheholds a bachelor’s degree in English, government and African American studies from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in broadcast news and documentary filmmaking from New York University.
Alcindor has a long association with NBC News, and has been making appearances on MSNBC since 2013. Shewas named a political contributor to NBC News and MSNBC in 2016.
More to come…
