Joy Reid Biography
Joy Reid is a political analyst, MSNBC national correspondent, and cable television host from the United States. She was called one of the political analysts “who have been at the center of cable-news discussions this election season” by The Hollywood Reporter in 2016.
How old is Joy Reid? – Age
The TV host is 52 years old as of 8 December 2020. She was born in 1968 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Joy Reid Family – Parents
Her father was from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and her mother was from Guyana, where she was a college professor and nutritionist. They met at the University of Iowa in Iowa City during graduate school. Reid has a sister June Carryl, who is an actress and playwright, and a brother Oren Lomena and was raised as a Methodist. Her father was an engineer who spent much of his time away from the family; her parents finally separated, and her father moved back to the Congo. She was mainly raised in Denver, Colorado until she was 17 years old when her mother died of breast cancer and she moved to Brooklyn to live with an aunt.
Who is Joy Reid Husband? – What does Joy Reid’s husband do for a living?
Reid married Jason Reid in 1997, who went on to work as a documentary film director. The couple is the parents of three children. Her husband is a Film Producer.
How much does Joy Reid get paid? – Net Worth
She earns an annual salary of $1.5 million. She has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Joy Reid Weight Loss
She joined a weight loss program and lost some good pounds, she later shared her loss look through Msnbc Weight Loss.
Joy Reid Career
Reid started her journalism career in 1997 when she moved from New York and her job at a business consulting company to South Florida to work for a morning show on WSVN Channel 7. She quit journalism in 2003 to work for the anti-war organization America Coming Together to fight President George W. Bush and the Iraq War. She later served on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and returned to broadcasting as a talk radio host.
Reid co-hosted Wake Up South Florida, a morning radio talk show broadcast from Radio One’s then-Miami affiliate WTPS, with “James T” Thomas from 2006 to 2007. She worked as the managing editor of The Grio, a political columnist for the Miami Herald, and the editor of the political blog The Reid Report. Reid hosted her own MSNBC afternoon cable news program, The Reid Report, from February 2014 to February 2015. Reid was moved to a new job as an MSNBC national correspondent after the show was canceled on February 19, 2015. Since May 2016, Reid has hosted AM Joy, an MSNBC political weekend morning talk show, and has filled in for other MSNBC hosts such as Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow on a regular basis. Reid’s Saturday morning show has almost one million weekly viewers as of 2018. Reid is the author of Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide, which was released on September 8, 2015, by HarperCollins. Reid delivered Wake Forest University’s Anna Julia Cooper Center’s inaugural Ida B. Wells lecture in 2015.
Reid was the fourth most tweeted journalist and the fourth most tweeted news source on Twitter in 2017. The Daily Dot credited her with coining the word KHive for Kamala Harris supporters in August of that year. Reid became cable’s first black female primetime anchor when MSNBC revealed in July 2020 that she will host The ReidOut, a new Washington-based weeknight show in the 7 p.m. Eastern time slot vacated by Hardball host Chris Matthews’ retirement in March 2020. Reid also teaches an ethnicity, gender, and media class at Syracuse University in Manhattan.
Joy Reid Awards
She had the “ability to break down complicated problems in a way that makes them digestible and open,” according to The Hollywood Reporter in 2016. “Ms. Reid, the daughter of refugees, has emerged as a ‘heroine’ of the anti-Trump’resistance,'” according to The New York Times in 2018.
Reid was a fellow at the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism from 2003 to 2004. Reid was nominated for three Salute to Excellence Awards by the National Association of Black Journalists in 2018. One for her segment at the Charlottesville white nationalist march in which a pastor is dragged to safety, another for Reid’s reporting on the hurricane damage to the US Virgin Islands, and finally for the segment that earned her an award, Disaster of ‘Time: The Kalief Browder Tale,’ in which a pastor is dragged to safety.
One for her segment at the Charlottesville white nationalist march where a pastor is pulled to safety, another for Reid’s reporting on hurricane damage to the US Virgin Islands, and finally for the segment that earned her an award, Disaster of ‘Time: The Kalief Browder Story,’ in which Reid sat down with Kalief’s brother Deion Browder and filmmaker Julia Mason. Carol Jenkins Visible and Influential Media Award was given to her by the Women’s Media Center in 2016.
Joy Reid Accusations
Reid’s previous blog posts from 2007 and 2009 were repeated by Twitter user @Jamie maz in late 2017 and again in April 2018. Reid expressed regret for the remarks, calling them “insensitive, tone-deaf, and stupid.” Reid officially apologized in June 2018, saying she had changed in the years since she wrote the posts. The posts were “obviously hateful and hurtful,” according to MSNBC, but they were “not representative of the colleague and friend we have known at MSNBC for the past seven years.” In another contentious post, the Zionist Organization of America requested that MSNBC fire Reid for spreading “sinister anti-Semitic canards.”
Reid said she had no recollection of writing those posts and asked lawyers to look into whether her blog or archives had been hacked. Her allegations of becoming a hacking victim were completely refuted in an article released by that website. Reid apologized at the start of April 28, 2018, version of AM Joy. Reid chastised President Donald Trump on September 1, 2020, for failing to condemn Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three men during a riot that occurred in the aftermath of a Black Lives Matter rally. She believed that this amounted to “radicalizing people” in the Muslim world, as portrayed by the US media. Southern Poverty Law Center and Muslim Advocacy Center are two civil rights groups. The Southern Poverty Law Center, Muslim Activists, and Senators Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib all condemned Reid’s statements as Islamophobic.
