Joy-Ann Reid

Joy-Ann Reid is the host of “The ReidOut" on MSNBC, the author of the books "Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide," "We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama," and "The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story." She co-hosts the podcast "Reid This / Reid That" with journalist and “New York Live” co-host Jacque Reid.

Reid was previously the host of “The Reid Report,” a daily program that offered Reid’s distinctive analysis and insight on the day’s news. Before that, she was the Managing Editor of theGrio.com, a daily, online news and opinion platform devoted to delivering stories and perspectives that reflect and affect African-American audiences. Reid joined theGrio.com with experience as a freelance columnist for the Miami Herald and as editor of the political blog The Reid Report. She is a former talk radio producer and host for Radio One, and previously served as an online news editor for the NBC affiliate WTVJ in Miramar, FL. Her columns and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, New York Magazine, The Miami Herald, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The South Florida Times.

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Reid served as the Florida deputy communications director for the 527 “America Coming Together” initiative and was a press aide in the final stretch of President Barack Obama’s Florida campaign in 2008.

Reid graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a concentration in documentary film and is a 2003 Knight Center for Specialized Journalism fellow. She and her husband, editor Jason Reid, own a documentary film company called Image Lab Media Group. She currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband and family.