Joy Ann Reid is a political pundit and television personality in the United States. Joy Ann Reid is an MSNBC national reporter and the author of “Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide.”
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Early years of life
Reid’s full name is Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid, and she was born on December 8, 1968. She will be 51 years old in the year 2020. Reid’s parents were immigrants, despite the fact that she was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother was a Guyanese and her father was from the Democratic Republic of Congo. When she was little, her father was seldom in the picture. Her parents eventually split, and she, along with her brother and sister, was raised by her mother. Joy and her family resided in Denver, Colorado, until she was 17 years old. However, a catastrophe occurred. Breast cancer claimed her mother’s life. Joy moved live with her aunt in Flatbush, Brooklyn, after the event.
Reid succeeded in her studies despite having had an extremely difficult upbringing. She was accepted to Harvard University after high school. She struggled since she had to adjust to a new environment while still paying her tuition on her own. She did, however, get a bachelor’s degree in emphasis cinema in 1991.
Professional life and career
Reid worked for a business consulting company before becoming a writer. She left the company in 1997 and went to work for a morning program on WSVN Channel 7 in southern Florida. She left WSVN after around 5 years to campaign against the Iraq war and President George W. Bush. She eventually returned to the radio show. Meanwhile, she volunteered for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
Reid and James Thomas started presenting ‘Wake Up South Florida’ in 2006. In 2014, she launched her own MSNBC show, The Reid Report. She worked as the managing editor of The Grio, a political writer for the Miami Herald, and the editor of The Reid Report political blog between 2006 and 2014.
The Reid Report was terminated in 2015. She went on to become a national reporter for MSNBC after that. She has also hosted MSNBC’s political weekend morning chat program “AM Joy,” which has an average of one million weekly viewers. Reid was recently confirmed as the host of The ReidOut, a new Washington-based weekday program airing at 7 p.m. on MSNBC.
Joy is a well-known novelist as well as a famous reporter. In the year 2000, she wrote her first book, titled “Online Banking.” She is the author of the book “The Man Who Stole America.” Her most successful book, Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide, was published in 2015.Reid is also a professor at Syracuse University, where he teaches seminars in Manhattan on race, gender, and the media.
Net Worth and Awards
Reid has garnered several awards for her efforts. In 2016, she received the Carol Jenkins Visible and Powerful Media Award from the Women’s Media Center. Similarly, the New York Times declared her a “heroine” of the anti-Trump “resistance” in 2018. She was nominated for three NABJ Salute to Excellence Awards in the same year.
Reid achieved fame and fortune after devoting more than half of his life to journalism. The MSNBC national reporter has a net worth of $4 million dollars now. Her annual compensation is also approximately $1.5 million. With her new prospects, she will undoubtedly continue to increase her value.
Relationship status
Jason Reid is Reid’s husband. Jason is a novelist as well as an editor, and he works for the Discovery Channel as an editor. The couple is the parents of three children. Despite the fact that they are often seen together in public, they remain tight-lipped about their personal lives. They don’t even know how they met or when they married. Furthermore, their children’s names are still unknown.
Social Media and Body Measurement
52-year-old woman Reid is still active and in good health. She has a height of 5 feet 9 inches. Her actual weight and other bodily parameters, however, remain unknown. African-American fusion Joy is a dark-skinned woman with lustrous black hair. She also has a nice grin and a lovely set of dark eyes.
Joy, like any other journalist in recent years, utilizes the internet to disseminate information and news to the general audience. She is very active on Twitter, where she often tweets about current political events. She even communicates her ideals and viewpoints. She was even listed as the most tweeted journalist in 2017. On Twitter, she has over a million followers. Her Instagram postings, on the other hand, are more focused on her personal life. She has nearly 270k followers on this platform.
Quick Facts
Full Name: | Joy Reid |
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Born Date: | 08 Dec, 1968 |
Age: | 52 years |
Horoscope: | Sagittarius |
Lucky Number: | 8 |
Lucky Stone: | Turquoise |
Lucky Color: | Orange |
Best Match for Marriage: | Leo, Aquarius |
Gender: | Female |
Profession: | Journalist |
Country: | USA |
Height: | 5 feet 9 inches (1.75m) |
Marital Status: | married |
Husband | Jason Reid |
Net Worth | $4M |
Salary | $1.5M |
Eye Color | Black |
Hair Color | Black |
Birth Place | Brooklyn, New York |
Nationality | American |
Education | Harvard University |
Siblings | Two |
Kids | three |
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IMDB | Joy Reid IMDB |
Wiki | Joy Reid Wiki |