C-SPAN has named Politico White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns as host of its upcoming weekly program “Ceasefire,” which the network is set to premiere later this year.

Burns will continue in her current roles at Politico, where she also serves as chief correspondent for Playbook and hosts the weekly podcast “The Conversation.” She joined Politico in January 2025 following her tenure as a national correspondent at NBC News.

Burns is already familiar to C-SPAN viewers, having moderated more than a dozen public policy events and discussions aired by the network. Ceasefire is the first major programming initiative under C-SPAN CEO Sam Feist and represents a departure from traditional political talk formats by emphasizing cross-partisan dialogue and civil discourse.

The weekly series will pair political leaders and lawmakers from opposing sides of the aisle — not to debate, but to explore how cooperation might address the country’s most urgent challenges. C-SPAN said the show is designed to serve as an alternative to combative and often heated cable news panels by creating space for solution-oriented conversations.

“Dasha Burns is the perfect person to host Ceasefire,” Feist said in a statement this week. “She is a terrific interviewer, moderator, and one of the principal drivers of the political conversation in Washington today. Dasha’s non-partisan approach to her well-sourced reporting is what makes her an ideal fit for C-SPAN. Dasha Burns is the right person at the right time.”

Ceasefire is scheduled to debut this fall on C-SPAN. The political affairs network is financially supported by the cable and satellite industry, and is available on most major pay TV platforms. On streaming, C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2 are available through DirecTV’s “MyNews” plan.