Adweek.com: NBC, MSNBC, CNN and ABC Have Been Nominated for 2019 NAACP Image Awards
The Emmy nominations are in!
The nominees for the 50th NAACP Image Awards were announced this morning at TCA, and nominees include a number of TV newsers.
ABC’s The View is up for Outstanding Talk Series; Joy Reid (AM Joy – MSNBC) and Lester Holt (NBC Nightly News) are nominated in the Outstanding Host in a Talk or News/Information (Series or Special)–Individual or Ensemble category.
NBCNews.com: Joy goes one-on-one with director Rob Reiner on Trump, Barr
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MSNBC.com: How history will regard Cohen’s testimony on Trump
Donald Trump was lambasted by the president’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen in congressional testimony this past week, during which Cohen called Trump a racist and conman. Joy Reid is joined by historian Michael Beschloss to discuss. Read more
Contemptor.com: Filling In for Maddow, MSNBC's Joy Reid Leads All Cable in Total Viewership Friday Night
MSNBC was back on top in primetime Friday night, leading cable news in both total viewership and the key 25-54 demographic. With star Rachel Maddow taking the night off, Joy Reid filled in as guest host for The Rachel Maddow Show and turned in the most-watched cable program of the evening.
According to Nielsen, MSNBC averaged 2.553 million total viewers and 415,000 in the demo during the 8 PM to 11 PM primetime hours Friday night. Fox News placed second in both metrics, drawing 2.193 million viewers overall and 364,000 in the demographic. CNN captured a demo audience of 331,000 and 1.266 million total viewers.
BlackEnterprise.com: Joy Reid Is Taking MSNBC's TV Viewership To New Heights.
As a political analyst, author, and host, Joy Reid is known for asking the questions others shy away from and pushing people to tell the truth despite what side of the political spectrum they’re on. The Harvard graduate began her career in radio at Radio One and later transitioned into digital reporting for local and national outlets such as The Grio and the Miami Herald. In short, Reid is a Woman of Power.
And now, thanks to Reid and her team, in 2018, AM Joy scored their third straight year of growth on weekends. And the show became the No. 1 show in African American total viewers across all cable during the time period of Jan. 1 – Dec. 30, 2018.
Elle.com: Joy Reid Is Quietly, Steadily, Stealthily Changing the Game for Women on TV
A weekend-morning MSNBC show, lodged firmly in the posthangover, prebrunch hours, wouldn’t ordinarily be the stuff of trending topics. But the rules have changed since November 8, 2016. Now Reid’s show, AM Joy, regularly pulls in viewers, and 2017 marks the first time in 16 years that MSNBC beat out CNN in the Saturday-morning time slot. Twitter swells with real-time reactions from #Reiders, especially when Reid schools a guest in her trademark patient, no-nonsense fashion. (After Shonda Rhimes retweeted a clip of Reid calmly demolishing a guest who was spouting Clinton Foundation conspiracy theories—appending the comment “Just in case you’re wondering how to dismiss foolishness”—Reid confesses, “I died. Oh, I died!”) Given the cacophony of cable news, where the loudest panelist often wins, Reid’s approach has few antecedents on the right or the left, but perhaps that’s why she has so many newly minted fans: In a sensationalist climate, she refuses to let facts wriggle out of her grasp.Read more here.
Variety: How Joy Reid Took on Trump and Became MSNBC’s New Star
When Joy Reid takes over MSNBC’s broadcast for two hours each Saturday and Sunday, she knows she has to walk a tightrope. Her show, “AM Joy,” is supposed to have a broader perspective than the rat-a-tat-tat breaking-news coverage that normally fills MSNBC’s dayside grid. But in this current news cycle, headlines are always breaking.The trick, sometimes, is to nod to the news but use it to build up a bigger idea. “We want to keep adding to the story we are focusing in on,” Reid says. “It’s part of the job, to be flexible and nimble with the news cycle, because it’s so crazy.”Read more here.