When Jen Psaki leaves the podium, what can she do?
Just about everything she wants.
According to reports, MSNBC is in talks with Psaki about a deal that would give her a show on the network and involve on-air appearances.
After her time in the White House, Psaki should have many career opportunities. She could score corporate communications roles, provide consulting services, or enter the television industry according to former press secretaries. She could make money by giving speeches or writing a book.
The salary of Psaki will increase dramatically once she leaves, according to a vice chair who leads executive searches in the areas of corporate affairs, government affairs, communications, and public relations.
A seven-figure total compensation is not out of bounds.
The 11-person army that keeps the White House message is made up of staffers from Gen Z.
In recent years, the White House press secretaries have gone in a number of different directions.
Sarah Huckabee sanders is running for governor in Arkansas, Sean Spicer is co-hosting a show on Newsmax, and Kayleigh McEnany is co-hosting a show on Fox News.
One of President Barack Obama's press secretaries is now a senior vice president of global corporate affairs at Amazon.
Fleischer is a Fox News contributor and founded a private communications firm.
A press secretary for President Bill Clinton went to the National Football League. He sold his DC mansion for $8.1 million to the Obamas.
George Stephanopoulos was not a White House press secretary. He was a public-facing communications director. After leaving politics, Stephanopoulos entered mainstream TV journalism and went on to host ABC News shows like World News Tonight and This Week.
Psaki is one of the most recognizable faces of the Biden administration.
Psaki is not going to have a problem making a lot of money when she walks out that door.
Richard Levick, a crisis communications expert whose firm represents countries and companies, said that she helped return a level of confidence and comfort to the White House briefing room.
Levick asked what he would do if she landed on his desk.
She hasn't set a date for leaving, but she never intended on staying for President Joe Biden's entire term.
She told The Axe Files that it would be time for someone else to take the job in a year or so.
Spending time with her two young children is a priority for Psaki, who has not mentioned what path she might take.
She told The Axe Files that she doesn't want to miss moments. I never thought I would be here, but I love my kids a lot.
During the late 19th century, the tradition of a president's spokesman regularly meeting with the press became a reality. Psaki is the 34th official press secretary in US history.
The last White House press secretary to serve for a full term was Marlin Fitzwater. Two others from the Clinton administration have been in the job for longer than three years.
McCurry, who is now a professor of public theology at a seminary in Washington, DC, wrote in an email that each year seems like five. McCurry said the good day would last from 5 to 9.
He would wake up in the morning and think about the press conference in the shower. McCurry wrote that he would practice answers to commute to work, and then work like hell to find out what happened.
He said that theAdrenaline keeps you going, but sooner or later you burn out.
The press briefings make up 10% to 15% of the work, according to the first press secretary of Trump.
He said that there is never a time when you can take a break from the job. Like mine, Jen has kids. There is a lot of strain on the family because you are not there as much.
She left a government communications job to work for Obama as his deputy press secretary. She became a senior vice president of the Global Strategy Group.
The State Department's spokesman wassaki in the Obama administration. She became the White House communications director two years later.
She was devastated when she was passed over for her current job, but having more life experiences since then prepared her for this moment, she said.
Between leaving the Obama White House and joining the Biden administration, Psaki worked as a CNN on-air contributor and senior advisor at two consulting firms. She founded a consulting company. The Revolving Door Project obtained her financial-disclosure report, which listed Demand Justice as one of her clients. She made money on the speaking circuit.
Psaki has a different background than other former press secretaries.
She will have speaking opportunities. She will have opportunities. Corporate America is aligned with the left.
After four years of unpredictability under Trump, Psaki wants to return to accuracy and transparency from the podium.
She gets some flak on social media for promising to circle back with information for reporters. She has mostly avoided making news. She's avoided becoming a staple for SNL skits, unlike Spicer, who had his exchanges with reporters parodied.
White House reporters have not been as hostile to Psaki as they were to the other press secretaries, according to Spicer.
It is not about how she is doing her job. The way the White House press corps has conducted themselves is an embarrassment. He said that Psaki walks in every day and has a group of people looking at her.
Steven Groves, a deputy press secretary for the Trump administration who is now a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said that it is difficult to lay a glove on Psaki.
If reporters are bored with Biden, they should cover scandals in Hollywood.
She is doing her job. He said that there was only one Fox reporter who asked her anything particularly challenging.
Peter Doocy is a reporter for Fox News Channel. Sometimes Psaki goes toe-to-toe with him, dropping on him what is known as a #Psakibomb. She once described one of the questions about vaccines as loaded and inaccurate.
She joked to reporters during a press briefing this week that she loves anonymous sources.
She told CNN in June that she doesn't want the briefing room to become a forum for propaganda.
Martha Joynt Kumar, a White House communications scholar who wrote Managing the President, said that opportunities for press secretaries after they leave the White House depend on how effective a given press secretary is.
Kumar said that they were able to provide accurate information on a regular basis, but also that reporters wanted answers. Did they know what was happening?
Kumar said that the press secretaries in the Trump White House had a quarrelsome president who was difficult to deal with. It was difficult for them to do an effective job.
It has not been a problem for him to find a job after he left the White House. The former press secretary went on to give speeches, publish a memoir, and even appear as a contestant on Dancing With the Stars.
McCurry said the speeches he gave after leaving the White House helped pay for his children's college tuition. He spent time with his family while he was working with a public-affairs firm. Although he had some offers, he decided not to write a book. He tried to become a pundit on CNN in 2000.
He said that Psaki will have chances to do that.
McCurry wrote that she can see her teaching or at least showing up at classes taught by the ex-journalists.
He said that she would be a big help to the president or whoever ends up as the candidate, if she were to help with the reelection campaign.
The story was first published in August of 2021.
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