Vaughn Hillyard, Laura Barrón-López, David Noriega and Marc Santia join MSNBC as correspondents

With its spinoff from NBCUniversal looming (and with it a split from NBC News), MSNBC continues to staff up its nascent news division.

The Hollywood Reporter has learned that MSNBC has brought on four correspondents, including some that will be familiar to NBC News viewers.

Perhaps most notably, MSNBC has staffed up its White House team, one of the most critical correspondent roles for any news organization. Vaughn Hillyard will become MSNBC’s senior White House correspondent, with Laura Barrón-López also being named White House correspondent. ...

MSNBC has also tapped David Noriega as a Los Angeles-based correspondent, and Marc Santia as an investigative correspondent.

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