Joy Reid Bio, Career, Education, Age, Spouse, Parents and Net Worth

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Who is Joy Reid?

Joy Reid ( Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Raid) is an American cable Tv host, MSNBC national correspondent, and also a liberal political commentator. In 2016 she was described as one of the political pundits who has been at the forefront of the cable-news conversations during this election season.

She has also written a book about the recent history of the Democratic Party titled Fracture, she wrote the book in 2016. Fracture entails Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide. Raid has also hosted a morning show titled Joy AM which airs every morning at MSNBC.

In 2019, she published another book titled The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story. After that, MSNBC confirmed that Raid was going to host The ReidOut, on July 9, 2020. The show was going to be based in new Washington and it was going to be a weeknight show in the 7 p.m. Eastern time slot which was left by Hardball host Chris Mathews’ retirement in march 2020.

Career

Her career in journalism started back in 1997, after leaving her job as a consultant and joined South Florida for a WSVN Channel 7 morning show. However, in 2003 she left journalism and joined a group called American Coming Together. The purpose of this group was to oppose the Iraq War together with President George W. Bush. After that, she came back to broadcasting this time as a radio host, and worked on Obama’s 2008 presidential campaigns.

In 2006 she was co-hosting a morning radio talk show at Wake Up South Florida. The show show broadcasted from Radio One’s and after that, it was then hosted at affiliate WTPS, alongside “James T” the show aired until 2007. Furthermore, in 2011 she worked as a managing director of The Grio until 2014. All along she has been a political columnist for Miami Herald from 2003 until 2015. From 2000 until 2014 she has been an editor of The Reid Report political blog.

A Photo of Joy Reid
A Photo of Joy Reid

The Reid Report

In February 2014, she began hosting her own show titled The Reid Report at MSNBC, an afternoon cable news show. However, the show lasted for only one year and it was canceled on February 19, 2015, and she was moved to a new role as a national correspondent. From May 2016 she began hosting a political weekend-morning show titled AM Joy on MSNBC. In addition, she appears frequently stand for the other MSNBC host such as Chris Hayes and Rachael Maddow. Her Saturday morning show was doing well and it almost reached one million weekly viewers as of 2018.

Reid was ranked No. 4 among Twitter’s top tweeted news outlet in 2017. She was also was ranked as one of the most tweeted journalists in each outlet. She was then credited by The Daily Dot in August of 2017 coining the term KHive for the supporter of Kamala Harris.

MSNBC in July 2020, confirmed that Reid was going to host a new show titled ReidOut. It was going to air on a weeknight at 7 p.m Eastern time a slot which was left by Hardball host Chris Mathews who retired in March 2020. The cable made her first black female primetime anchor. Joy Reid is also a teacher at Syracuse University, class Manhattan where she explores race, gender, and the Media.

Honors

In 2003 she was a fellow at Knight Center for Specialized Journalism. Later in 2018, she was nominated for 3 NABJ Salute to Excellence Awards. Her first nomination was on her reporting on a Pastor who was being pulled to a safer place at the Charlottesville white nationalist march, during the Hurricanes to the Virgins Island. Finally her last segment that made her win an award was the Tragedy of Time: The Kalief Browder Story’ Where she down with Deion Browder a filmmaker Julia Mason. Reid also got the Women’s Media Center’s Carol Jenkins and Powerful Media Award in 2016.

Joy Reid Age

She currently 52 years, she was born on December 8, 1968, in New York City U.S.

Joy Reid Family

Parents

Her father was an engineer from Congo and her mother was a college professor and nutritionist from Guyana. However, her father’s career made him stay away from home so he was an absent father and that led to her parent getting a divorce. After they divorced her father went back to Congo and she was raised by her mother in Denver until she was 17. When she turned 17 her mother died due to breast cancer and Flatbush, Brooklyn to live with her Aunt.

Siblings

Reid has no siblings

Joy Reid Education

She attended Havard University where she graduated in 1991.

Joy Reid Spouse

Reid is married to Jason Reid, the two love birds tied the Knot in 1997

Joy Reid Children

The couple have been blessed with three kids

Joy Reid height

The 52 years old stands at 5feet 5inches and weighs 55kg.

Joy Reid Net worth

As of 2019, her Net Worth was $4 million and a salary of $2million annually.

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