As anxieties run high throughout the media business, MSNBC’s Ari Melber sees the positives in the channel’s pending spinoff from Comcast, meaning that NBC News no longer will be a sister organization.

Katie Phang said goodbye to MSNBC in April after her show, The Katie Phang Show, was canceled. Just one month later, she’s already trying out a new venture to continue reporting the news. On Wednesday ...