Joy-Ann Reid

Joy Reid is a national correspondent for MSNBC and the author of the book “Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide.”(September 2015)  From February 2013-February 2014, Reid was the host of MSNBC’s “The Reid Report,” a daily program that offered Reid’s distinctive analysis and insight on the day’s news. Before that, Reid 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.

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’s columns and articles have appeared in the Miami Herald, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, South Florida Times and Salon.com. She is currently producing a documentary, “The Fight Years”-which takes a look into the sport of boxing during the 1950s and 1960s in Miami.

Website: MSNBC
Twitter: @JoyAnnReid