NBC's Chuck Todd has met with other news outlets, plans to leave network: report

Longtime NBC host Chuck Todd, a former “Meet the Press” moderator, is meeting with other media outlets and considering leaving the network, according to a report.

“Chuck Todd met quietly with Washington media about his future after NBC,” Semafor reported Sunday.

Todd, 52, told “top editors and executives at other media organizations that he planned to leave NBC at the end of his contract this year, and discussed potential roles outside the network, both in audiovisual and digital media,” the report continues.

Once the host of “Meet the Press,” NBC's flagship Sunday show, Todd became a significantly less visible presence on the network after being replaced by Kristen Welker in 2023 after nine years as president.

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NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd is considering leaving NBC, according to reports. (William B. Plowman/NBC via Getty Images)

Todd notably criticized NBC News for hiring former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as an analyst in March 2024, one of several on-air personalities to openly criticize the network's decision. He openly questioned his bosses for hiring McDaniel and for putting Welker in the awkward position of questioning McDaniel, briefly a paid colleague of Welker's, about her past 2020 election rhetoric.

“Let me take care of the elephant in the room,” Todd told Welker in March. “I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation, because I don’t know what to believe.”

Todd said he didn't know if the response McDaniel gave to Welker was because she didn't want to “mess up” his new contract.

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Todd said many of the network's relationships with the RNC under McDaniel's leadership “faced gaslighting” and “character assassinations” in March 2024. (Getty Images)

Todd previously said that many of the network's dealings with the RNC under McDaniel's leadership “were met with abuse” and “character assassinations,” and he cited internal uproar from NBC News reporters who were apoplectic following the hiring of McDaniel. McDaniel's contract was terminated less than a week later.

Todd has in the past hosted his own MSNBC program, “The Daily Rundown,” and also served as NBC's chief White House correspondent.

NBC News did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

Fox News' David Rutz contributed to this report.

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