Joy-Ann Reid Biography
Joy Ann Reid Age
Reid is 52 years old as of 2020, she was born on 8 December 1968, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He celebrates his birthday on 10 December every year and his birth sign is Sagittarius.
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Joy Ann Reid Height and Weight
Joy stands at a height of 5 feet and 9 inches tall. However, her exact weight and other body measurements are unavailable. She has a dark complexion and shiny black hair and a pair of black eyes.
Joy Ann Reid Parents and Siblings
Reid was born Joy-Ann Lomena in Brooklyn, New York. Her father was from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and her mother a college professor and nutritionist from Guyana; the couple met in graduate school at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Reid was raised Methodist and has one sister and one brother.
Her father was an engineer who was frequently absent from the family; her parents eventually divorced and her father returned to the Congo. She was raised mostly in Denver, Colorado, until the age of 17, when her mother died of breast cancer and she relocated to Flatbush, Brooklyn, to live with an aunt.
Joy-Ann Reid Education
Reid graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a concentration in film.
Joy-Ann Reid Husband
Reid is a married woman. She is married to her husband Jason Reid. Jason is an author in addition to an editor, working as an editor for the Discovery Channel. Joy and Jason are blessed with three children together. Although the two are seen quite a lot in public together, they do not talk much about their private lives. They have not even mentioned where they met and when they got married. Additionally, the names of their children are still unknown as well.
Joy Ann Reid Career
Reid started her journalism career in 1997, leaving New York and her job at a business consulting firm to start serving in southern Florida for a WSVN Channel 7 morning show. She left journalism in 2003 to oppose the Iraq War and President George W. Bush, but returned to broadcasting as a talk radio host, and then worked in the Barack Obama presidential campaign
Reid was the co-host of Wake Up South Florida from 2006 to 2007, a morning radio talk show broadcast from Radio One’s then-Miami affiliate WTPS, alongside “James T” Thomas. She worked as managing editor of The Grio (2011–2014), a political columnist for Miami Herald (2003–2015), and the editor of The Reid Report political blog (2000–2014)
Joy Ann Reid MSNBC
Reid hosted her own MSNBC afternoon cable news show, The Reid Report from February 2014 to February 2015. The show was canceled on February 19, 2015, and Reid was shifted to a new role as an MSNBC national correspondent. Since May 2016, Reid has hosted AM Joy, a political weekend-morning talk show on MSNBC, and is a frequent substitute for other MSNBC hosts, including Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow. As of 2018, Reid’s morning show on Saturday averages nearly 1 million weekly viewers.
Reid is the author of the book Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide, published by HarperCollins on September 8, 2015. In 2015, Reid gave the inaugural Ida B. Wells lecture at Wake Forest University’s Anna Julia Cooper Center
In 2017, Reid ranked fourth among Twitter’s top tweeted news outlets (@MSNBC) and most tweeted journalist (@JoyAnnReid) at each outlet. The Daily Dot credited her within August of that year coining the term KHive for supporters of Kamala Harris. In June 2020, it was announced that Reid would likely be taking over Hardball with Chris Matthews, making her cable’s first black female primetime anchor.
Reid also teaches a Syracuse University class in Manhattan exploring race, gender, and the media. In July 2020, MSNBC announced that Reid would host The ReidOut, a new Washington-based weeknight show in the 7 p.m. Eastern time slot vacated in March by Hardball host Chris Matthews’s retirement.
Joy Reid Book
Reid has written a book on the recent history of the Democratic Party, called Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide. In 2019, she published the book, The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story.
Besides being a successful reporter, Joy is also a well-known author. Her first book ‘Online Banking’ was published in 2000. She is also the author of ‘The man who stole America.’ However her most popular publish is 2015 ‘Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide’
Joy Reid Sick and Health
Reid suffered not only from Whooping Cough but from a blood clot in her brain. But currently, she thankfully is fully recovered and promised she’s fine and feeling all better. She expressed deep gratitude for her friends who filled in at the show, her medical team, and the AM Joy fans who lifted her up and made her feel loved and missed.
Joy Ann Reid Awards and Achievements
- She won the Women’s Media Center’s Carol Jenkins Visible and Powerful Media Award. in 2016
- Similarly, in 2018 New York Times stated that she had emerged as a “heroine” of the anti-Trump “resistance”. In the same year, she got nominated for three NABJ Salute to Excellence Awards