Jones’s announcement comes after almost four years in the position and a couple of months after the network’s viewership began declining in the wake of the 2024 presidential election. Jones informed MSNBC staff on Tuesday of her decision, which she claimed she came to over the holidays.

“This has been the most rewarding chapter of my professional career and I am immensely proud of what we have accomplished, which has been made possible only by you,” Jones said in a memo to staff.

Filling the role of interim president will be Rebecca Kutler, whom Jones hired as MSNBC’s senior vice president of content strategy in 2022. Jones, meanwhile, intends to stay with the network in an advisory role until March.

Following the 2024 election cycle, Comcast, MSNBC’s parent company, announced that the network and other NBCUniversal cable channels would be spun off to other ownership, which is expected to take place within a year. The NBC broadcast network, Bravo, and the streaming service Peacock are expected to be safe from this spin-off and will instead be kept by Comcast.

Besides the announcement of the impending spin-off, MSNBC has dealt with other network drama, including criticism from viewers over Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election. Ex-CNN host Don Lemon accused the hosts of forgoing their “morals” and “principles” in meeting with the president-elect.

On Monday, MSNBC announced that network anchor Rachel Maddow will return to a five-night weekly schedule for Trump’s first 100 days in office, likely in a bid to bolster the network’s ratings. Currently, Maddow hosts The Rachel Maddow Show on Monday nights.