‘Meet The Press’ Changes: John Reiss To Take New Role On NBC News Now Show, David P. Gelles To Succeed Him As Executive Producer Of Sunday Broadcast
24.08.2022 - 17:43
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John Reiss is moving from his role as executive producer of Meet the Press to NBC News Now’s seasonal, single-topic show Meet the Press Reports, and he will be succeeded at the Sunday broadcast by David P. Gelles, who is returning to the network after nearly a decade at CNN.
Reiss has been EP of Meet the Press for the past eight years, and will shift to the streaming series that he and Chuck Todd, the moderator of Meet the Press and NBC News political director, launched in 2020. The series will enter its fifth season this fall, with each season running six to eight episodes.
Gelles, who joins the network on Sept. 1, most recently worked for CNN+, where he led the creation of four shows, Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, The Newscast with Wolf Blitzer, The Source with Kasie Hunt, and Jake Tapper’s Book Club.
Gelles previously was a producer for NBC News’ Today from 2006 to 2011 and later a producer on Brian Williams’ Rock Center from 2011 to 2013 before joining CNN. He was a senior broadcast producer for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, and from 2016 to 2021 was EP of CNN’s political and special events programming. That included live coverage of the 2020 electoral college certification, the second Trump impeachment, and the Derek Chauvin verdict, as well as coverage surrounding debates, town halls and the presidential inauguration. He will work with Todd and Carrie Budoff Brown, NBC News senior vice president for Meet the Press, and also will work with Reiss and Melissa Frankel, executive producer of the daily streaming show Meet the Press Now.
During Reiss’ tenure, Meet the Press expanded its brand with the debut of MSNBC’s weekday Meet the Press Daily, which moved to NBC News Now earlier this year as the retitled Meet