Prime of the Ticker: The New York Occasions reviews that Versant, the guardian firm of MS NOW and CNBC, is considered one of many suitors serious about buying Vox’s podcast division.

Acquisition talks are of their early phases, according to the Times, but when Versant succeeds on this buy, it would fulfill the media firm’s deal with diversifying its portfolio and income streams past its cable networks.

Vox’s podcast community produces almost 40 podcasts. Ought to all of them fall underneath the Versant umbrella, it might align nicely with Versant’s two of 4 core verticals: political information & opinion and sports activities & style leisure.

No Kings protest protection: C-SPAN and MS NOW have shared their protection plans for this weekend’s No Kings protests happening throughout the nation. C-SPAN will cowl the No Kings nationwide flagship rally on the Capitol in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Saturday. MS NOW says its reporters will be part of protection from protest places throughout the nation, together with Antonia Hylton from New York Metropolis, Jake Traylor in West Palm Seaside, Maya Eaglin in Chicago, Laura Haefeli from Minneapolis, Rosa Flores in Austin, Arielle Hixson in Washington, D.C., and Jacob Soboroff from Los Angeles. 

Signing off: Friday was CNN Early Begin’s Rahel Solomon’s final broadcast with the community. On Monday, Solomon introduced that this was her closing week with the community, calling her tenure at CNN an “honor” and a “privilege.” She didn’t instantly share what her subsequent transfer is, however she’s excited “about this subsequent chapter.” A CNN spokesperson mentioned, “We’re grateful to Rahel for all her contributions to CNN over the previous 4 years and are supportive of her resolution. We want her all one of the best in her subsequent chapter.”

New Dwelling: Former CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane has landed at MeidasTouch, the place he can be their chief Washington correspondent and anchor for the digital community. In a LinkedIn publish, MacFarlane says he’ll anchor a each day program, Scott MacFarlane Experiences, bringing his a few years of enterprising reporting to MeidasTouch’s viewers.

Morning extension: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have signed contract extensions with MS NOW, persevering with with the community past the 2028 election. Along with renewing their contracts, the Morning Joe co-hosts will see a reduction in their on-air workload, with the morning present transferring again to a 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET schedule in June.