Joy-Ann Reid

Joy-Ann Reid is a political analyst and host of “The ReidOut” on MSNBC. She is the author of four books: #1 New York Times bestseller Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America; (opens new window), Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide; (opens new window), We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama; (opens new window), which she co-edited with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, and The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story; (opens new window), which spent four weeks on the New York Times best-sellers list. Reid also co-hosts a podcast: Reid This-Reid That with veteran TV journalist Jacque Reid. She has worked in local and national TV news, as a talk radio producer and co-host, and as a press secretary during two presidential campaigns, including for Barack Obama's campaign in Florida in 2008. Her columns have appeared in multiple outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Miami Herald, New York Magazine, and The Daily Beast.

Reid graduated from Harvard University in 1991 and was a 2003 Knight Center for Advanced Journalism fellow. She has received media awards from The Newswoman’s Club of New York for the Front Page Award for Lifetime Achievement; (opens new window), Women’s Media Center, the National Action Network and the National Association of Black Journalists, and her work has been nominated for an Emmy Award, a GLAAD Media Award, and two NAACP Image Awards.