Joy-Ann Reid
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December 8, 1968
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Joy-Ann Reid Bio
Joy-Ann Reid (born Joy-Ann M. Lomena) is an American national correspondent and author who was born on December 8th, 1968 in New York City, New York, United States. Joy graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a concentration in film and is a 2003 Knight Center for Specialized Journalism fellow. She is the younger sister of June Carryl. Joy is best known as the national correspondent for MSNBC which she hosted from February 2013 to February 2014. She was the host of MSNBC’s The Reid Report. Before her stint with the MSNBC, she worked as the Managing Editor of theGrio.com. She was once a talk radio producer and host for Radio One and previously served as an online news editor for the NBC WTVJ in Miramar, FL. As an author, she is best known for the books Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide (released in September 2015), and as co-author with E.J. Dionner Jr. on We Are The Change We Seek: the Speeches of Barack Obama, released in 2017. She anchored AM Joy on MSNBC every week and wrote The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story in 2019. MSNBC announced on July 9, 2020, that Reid would host The ReidOut, a new Washington-based weeknight show that would take over the 7 p.m. Eastern time slot vacated by Hardball host Chris Matthews' retirement in March.
