Rebecca Kutler, a Philadelphia native serving as the network’s senior vice president of content strategy, will take over for Rashida Jones as MSNBC’s interim network president.

Mark Lazarus, the incoming CEO of SpinCo, has named Rebecca Kutler interim president of the cable news channel.

That creativity manifested itself at MSNBC, as Jones expanded “Morning Joe” by an hour and created a sort of “pop-up” program known internally as “The Avengers” that has Maddow lead a dais of MSNBC opinion hosts during moments of critical national news import.