“The Best Job in Cable News”: Meet the Power Agent Who Brokered the Deal for Rachel Maddow’s Replacement

Alex Wagner’s debut this week as the new host of MSNBC’s 9 p.m. hour on Tuesdays through Fridays capped a year’s worth of speculation about who would land Rachel Maddow’s powerhouse time slot, now that she was stepping back from hosting five nights a week to pursue a slew of multiplatform creative projects. For Wagner, it more than validated her decision to return to MSNBC seven years after the network canceled her previous show. In the interim, the 44-year-old newswoman had raised her profile by cohosting Showtime’s The Circus alongside John Heilemann. And for Henry Reisch, Wagner’s agent at William… Read Full Article