José Díaz-Balart Reports premiered on MSNBC (now, MS NOW) in 2021, as part of a major daytime lineup shakeup. The show marked Díaz-Balart’s return to MSNBC, where he had previously served as daytime anchor between 2014 to 2016. It was part of the network’s broader MSNBC Reports programming block and was produced from Telemundo’s Miami headquarters.
Each weekday episode delivered live coverage of breaking news, political developments, and major national and international stories. Díaz-Balart anchored from Miami, conducting interviews with newsmakers, political analysts, and correspondents across the country. His deep ties to both English and Spanish-language media gave the show a distinct perspective, particularly on issues affecting Latino communities across the United States.
In February 2025, MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler announced the cancellation of the show as part of a wide-ranging network restructuring that eliminated several long-running programs, including The ReidOut with Joy Reid and The Katie Phang Show. The network cited its decision to consolidate production operations in New York and Washington, D.C. as the primary reason. Díaz-Balart anchored his final episode on May 2, 2025.
José Díaz-Balart is a Cuban-American journalist who began his career in 1983. He is a five-time national Emmy Award winner and a recipient of the Peabody and Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards. He is the first Cuban American to host a network news broadcast in English, and the first journalist to simultaneously anchor two different evening newscasts on separate broadcast networks in English and Spanish. He continues to anchor the Saturday edition of NBC Nightly News and has taken on expanded responsibilities at Telemundo, including hosting Ahora 360 and the Spanish-language edition of Dateline.
