Host of The Joy Reid Show

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Joy-Ann Reid Short Bio

Joy-Ann Reid (also known as: Joy Reid) is a journalist, author, documentary film producer and social and political commentator, and the former host of The Reid Report, AM Joy, and the two-time NAACP Award-winning and Emmy nominated nightly news analysis program, “The ReidOut” on MSNBC. Her latest project: The Joy Reid Show, airs on Youtube and on all audio podcast platforms. Joy has written four books including two New York Times best sellers: Medgar and Myrlie; the Love Story That Awakened America, which landed at number one on the Times list and won the 2025 NAACP Image Award in the biography category, and The Man Who Sold America, which spent four weeks on the Times best-seller list; as well as Fracture: Barack Obama, The Clintons and the Racial Divide, and the foreword to Kamala Harris: Selections From the Official White House Photography. A 1991 Harvard graduate with a documentary film concentration, Reid has worked in talk radio for Radio One, as the managing editor of TheGrio.com and as a political operative for America Coming Together in 2004 and the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign. She is a proud, honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, and she and her husband Jason co-own the production company Image Lab Media Group, which produces The Joy Reid Show and an upcoming Medgar Evers documentary; and they have four adult children.

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Joy Ann Reid: Host of The Joy Reid Show

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