Ari Melber Biography
Ari Melber is an American attorney and journalist who serves as MSNBC’s chief legal correspondent and hosts The Beat with Ari Melber. His reports are among the most-watched MSNBC segments on the internet.
How old is Ari Melber? – Age
He is 41 years old as of 31 March 2021. He was born in 1980 in Seattle, Washington, United States. His realname is Ari Naftali Melber.
What is Ari Melber’s Ethnicity? – Family – Education
Melber is a Jewish immigrant’s son from Israel. His grandparents survived the Holocaust. He went to Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington, and then to the University of Michigan, where he earned an A.B. in political science. He moved to Washington, D.C. after college to work for Senator Maria Cantwell. He then joined Senator John Kerry’s presidential campaign, serving as Iowa’s deputy political director and California’s deputy political director. Melber went on to earn a J.D. from Cornell Law School, where he was an editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy and interned at New York County Defender Services, a Manhattan public defender’s office.
Is Ari Melber Still Married MSNBC? – Wife
Melber lives in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens neighborhood. Drew Grant, a pop culture reporter for The New York Observer, is his ex-wife. He belongs to the New York State Bar Association.
Ari Melber Career
Melber broke the story that a state investigator was looking into the possibility of charging potential Mueller probe defendants with state crimes, implying that a conviction would not be eligible for a presidential pardon. In March 2019, New York State prosecutors filed separate charges against Paul Trump’s former campaign chairman. Melber reported in October that President Trump’s actions toward Ukraine presented a potential case for impeachment for “bribery.”
Melber of MSNBC broke the story of police repeatedly tasing a Virginia man until he died in police custody, which prompted an FBI investigation. He was nominated for an Emmy for “Outstanding Live Interview” for interviewing four key witnesses in the Mueller investigation at the same time. Melber is described as “a remarkably effective interviewer” by Columbia Journalism Review, with “his veins appearing to contain ice water; he betrays no emotion at all” during heated exchanges.
Conservative commentator Tiana Lowe has called The Beat a “thought-provoking” and “idiosyncratic show” that “avoids the singular focus on Trump’s misdeeds that consumes some other hosts.” According to Mediaite, Melber’s interviewing style employs “the facts of the story and logical reasoning [rather than] partisan cheap shots” for “fascinating” exchanges. According to Vanity Fair, he is the “secret fourth Beastie Boy,” and he is “shockingly smart and well read.” Melber frequently employs hip hop lyrics to describe political or legal scenarios.
Ari Melber Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.
How much does Ari Melber make? – Salary
He earns an annual salary of $200 thousand.
