When Peter Alexander opens Saturday’s broadcast of “Today,” he will find himself opposite a new host — and a potential sparring partner. Laura Jarrett, a relatively new arrival to NBC News, i…
. Before CNN, she had been working as an attorney in Chicago, after graduating from Harvard Law School.
Jarrett had long harbored ambitions of working as a TV-news legal analyst. Now she has something even bigger to manage. The Saturday job may give her new opportunities as well. “Today” anchors must mix hard news with lifestyle issues, all while nodding to the lighter side of the cycle. Alexander expects this weekend, for example, to have a discussion about how to get kids back on an appropriate nighttime schedule now that school has started. “We are going to talk about tools for getting your kid back to sleep at a halfway decent hour.
Such coverage will give Jarrett the chance to show a different side of herself. “I think during the week, the viewers see me primarily covering death or indictments or pretty heavy stuff,” she says. “I’m looking forward to the audience and for myself to get to do things that might be a little more joyful than a double murder.”to accommodate Alexander’s and Welker’s heady beats, NBC is bringing the program back to New York.
Jarrett was not expecting the “Today” gig. “I was minding my own business,” she says, and working the new beat. But she was encouraged not only by the way Alexander reached out to her, but by Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie, the latter of whom has, like Jarrett, a legal degree. On Saturday, Jarrett joins the family.
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