Phil Griffin

Phil Griffin

Philip T. Griffin is an American television executive, who in 2008 became president of MSNBC, a United States cable news channel. He has been executive producer for shows such as Hardball with Chris Matthews and The Big Show with Keith Olbermann. Griffin has said his idols are former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, and television news anchor Andrew Lack.

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Summary Phil GriffinPhilip T. Griffin is an American television executive, who in 2008 became president of MSNBC, a United States cable news channel. He has been executive producer for shows such as Hardball with Chris Matthews and MSNBC’s The Big Show with Keith Olbermann. In 2013, Griffin said he wanted MSNBC to be more of a lifestyle brand than a political hub. In October 2019, Ronan Farrow reported that in a staff meeting, Griffin showed a picture of television reporter Maria Menounos having arobe malfunction with her bathing suit.

On December 7, 2020, MSNBC announced that at the end of January, Griffin would be replaced with journalist Rashida Jones. Griffin has said his idols are former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, and television news anchor Andrew Lack. In 1997, Griffin married Kory Kim Apton in a civil ceremony in New York.