Report: CNN Staffers Jumping To MSNBC

Disgruntled CNN employees believe "the grass is greener" at NBC News, according to a new report.

Puck media reporter Dylan Byers, who has worked at both CNN and NBC News, put a spotlight on an ongoing mass exodus of CNN staffers who have bolted for the Comcast-owned news operation in his Sunday night column. 

Byers noted that longtime CNN anchor Christine Romans is expected to join NBC, and reported that CNN entertainment reporter Chloe Melas will make a similar move. 

Disgruntled CNN employees feel ‘grass is greener’ at rival NBC News, media insider says https://t.co/hltzDERQLa

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"Romans and Melas will join a small diaspora of CNN talent and executives who have recently left Hudson Yards for 30 Rock, including Laura Jarrett, now NBC’s senior legal correspondent, and Ana Cabrera, now an MSNBC anchor. Off camera, Rebecca Kutler, the former head of programming for CNN+ who was once a treasured part of the Jeff Zucker inner circle, is now MSNBC’s senior vice president of content strategy; longtime CNN producer David Gelles is now the executive producer for NBC’s ‘Meet The Press,’" Byers wrote. 

"And, even as NBC adds CNN alumni to its ranks, CNN has added CNBC’s Kayla Tausche as a White House correspondent," Byers continued. "But for many, it seems, the grass is greener over at 30 Rock."