Her book and her podcast - which features interviews with others in recovery including Matthew Perry, Tommy Davidson and Sober Mom Squad cofounder Jessica Landon - have made her something of a celebrity in the recovery community. For Vargas - who has two sons ages 20 and 16 with ex-husband Marc Cohn, a singer-songwriter - alcohol was a way to deal with crippling anxiety and panic attacks related to childhood trauma. Her podcast, “The Heart of the Matter,” which is part of the work she does as a board member of The Partnership to End Addiction, is honest and, at times, darkly funny. She writes of multiple stays in rehab passing out on a New York City park bench and nearly being assaulted waking up in the hospital with no idea how she got there. Her 2016 memoir, “Between Breaths,” is a brave confessional. “It’s so incredibly important right now.”Īfter years of displaying empathic interviewing skills on national TV, Vargas’ battle with alcohol addiction is perhaps the thing that most humanizes her. “I could not sit on the sidelines during this news cycle,” she says. (The network is available on cable and satellite as well as streaming platforms including YouTube, Hulu, Sling and via the NewsNation app.)įor Vargas, 60, who also hosts a syndicated true-crime series, the volatile news cycle was actually the reason she took the job. The network’s daily audience is dwarfed by more established media brands but, according to Nexstar, NewsNation reaches 70 million people each month.
The Hill-branded panel show hosted by Leland Vittert and featuring rotating panelists including George Will and erstwhile Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt, who joined NewsNation last May. In 2021, Nexstar acquired the Washington, D.C.-focused digital publication The Hill for $130 million, and on April 24 will launch a 5 p.m. In addition to Vargas, there are Dan Abrams, Ashleigh Banfield and Chris Cuomo, whose show is very much an opinion program. And it has funneled millions into its flagship cable network NewsNation, which it launched in 2021, building a new studio in Manhattan and amassing a roster of TV news talent. Last year, Nexstar purchased a majority stake in The CW. Nextsar became the largest owner of local stations in the country (110) after it acquired Tribune Media (owner of WPIX and WGN) in 2019 for more than $4 billion. I’m here to do an in-depth look at the biggest stories of the day affecting people across this country.” “NewsNation, from its inception, has targeted the vast majority in the middle. And about 10 percent of the population are far left and are watching MSNBC,” she continues.
“We know that 10 percent of the population are far right, and they watch Fox News and other smaller, even more rightwing networks. Vargas, and executives at Nexstar-owned NewsNation, are banking that there are enough sensible people left in America. “Our target audience,” says Vargas, are “people who are sensible.”
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