ReidOut: Joy Reid heads over to nightly news program

Joy Reid at the 2017 NAACP Image Awards. Photo: The Chocolate Voice

Joy Reid, host of the MSNBC weekend talk show AM Joy, is moving to the 7 p.m. hour on July 20, according to the New York Times, making her one of the few Black women to anchor a major nightly news program. Her new show, The ReidOut, replaces Hardball and its host, According to website Vulture, Chris Matthews, who was forced to resign because of sexual-harassment allegations in March.

Based in Washington, D.C., The ReidOut will focus on political analysis and punditry while also addressing race, class, policing, and other social issues.

โ€œI am a Black mom, a Black woman, a Black daughter,โ€ Reid said to the Times. โ€œI am also a journalist who can conceptualize that pain from a unique point of view. Every day Iโ€™m in this job, Iโ€™m very conscious of that responsibility to make that collective voice heard. Itโ€™s unique to do that as a Black woman.โ€

After graduating from Harvard, Reid worked in TV, talk radio, and served as managing editor of TheGrio.com. Outside of journalism, she worked on Barack Obamaโ€™s presidential campaign in 2008 and published a book. She joined MSNBC in 2011 and briefly hosted a daily talk show, The Reid Report, in 2014.

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