Joy-Ann Reid is a journalist, author, documentary film producer and social and political commentator with a 30-plus year history in the media business.

For five years, from July 2020 until February 2025 she hosted the two-time NAACP Award-winning and Emmy nominated nightly news analysis program, “The ReidOut” on MSNBC. Prior to that she hosted the weekend program: “A.M. Joy” (2016-2020) which became MSNBC’s highest ever rated weekend program, and a daily news show: “The Reid Report” from 2014-2015. As a national correspondent for MSNBC, Reid covered Black Lives Matter cases from Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor and Tyre Nichols, to the removal of the confederate flag from the South Carolina capitol, an alleged lynching in Mississippi and the burning of Southern Black churches.

Reid has written four books including two New York Times best sellers: Medgar and Myrlie; a New York Times number one bestseller and The Man Who Sold America, which spent four weeks on the list; as well as Fracture: Barack Obama, The Clintons and the Racial Divide and We are the Change We Seek: the speeches of Barack Obama (with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne) as well as the foreword to Kamala Harris: The Official White House Photos.

Reid graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual and Environmental Studies with a concentration in documentary film. She is a 2003 Knight Center for Advanced Journalism fellow and served as a press secretary for the national voter registration and mobilization entity, America Coming Together in 2004 and for the Florida branch of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008.

She has received six NAACP Image Award nominations and “The ReidOut” received the award for best talk program in 2020. Reid received the NAACP Image Award for Best News and Information Host in 2025 and for best Biography for Medgar and Myrlie. The documentary she co-Executive Produced: The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show (directed by Yoruba Richen) was nominated for an Emmy, and she has received awards from the Women’s Media Center, the National Action Network, and GLAAD. Reid, who hosts a podcast with legendary broadcaster Jacque Reid called “Reid This, Reid That,” became an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated in November 2021.

She and her husband Jason run a documentary film production company, Image Lab Media Goup.