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Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Ronan Farrow the son of Mia Farrow and a former Obama administration foreign policy official will host a weekday program on MSNBC beginning early next year. The announcement came Wednesday from MSNBC president Phil Griffin.
The show, which is likely to launch in mid-January, will be closely aligned with Farrow's activism. And he told The Hollywood Reporter during a phone interview on Wednesday that his desire to join a television network was born of conversations he has had with young people who are frustrated with the vituperative immobility in Washington as well as the current state of TV news.
"I think what people carve is more involvement in the story," he said. "There has been a democratization of information. But what they still crave, and what I crave as a TV viewer, is a guide on how people can have agency in the story. And this show is all about empowering people to do that. People want a return to real democracy. They want to respond to these events [in Washington] that there is so much frustration about."
As THR exclusively reported, MSNBC has been in development talks with the 25-year-old Rhodes Scholar for several months. And Griffin first met with Farrow last summer.
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