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Reid Report Editor Joy-Ann (“Joy”) Reid is a political columnist for the Miami Herald and editor of The Reid Report, voted best national blog in the 2010 Florida Netroots Awards.

Joy has worked as an Internet news editor for NBC affiliate WTVJ in Miami and hosted a talk radio show for Radio One. In 2004, she served as statewide deputy communications director for America Coming Together, which registered 50,000 voters in Florida, and in 2008, she worked on South Florida urban media outreach for the Barack Obama presidential campaign.

Background: Journalism

Joy has worked in television and radio news since 1998, including for WTVJ and Fox station WSVN. In addition to the Herald, her columns have appeared on Salon.com, TheGrio.com, CommonDreams.org, in the South Florida Sun Sentinel, and the South Florida Times. From 2006-2007 she produced and co-hosted “Wake Up South Florida,” the morning show for Radio One’s then-Miami affiliate WTPS, alongside 30-year radio veteran James T. From 2008-2009 she co-hosted the weekly talk radio program “Elevating the Dialogue” on WNN-AM Fort Lauderdale. As a radio personality, Ms. Reid has interviewed national media and political figures including Bill Cosby, O.J. Simpson, Russell Simmons, former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, and then-Senator and then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Background: media

Ms. Reid is the managing partner of IMAGELAB, LLC, a video production, graphic design and communications firm. Through IMAGELAB Films, she is currently producing a television documentary, “The Fight Years,” which chronicles the history of boxing in Miami.

Ms. Reid is a 1991 graduate of Harvard University, where she majored in visual arts with a concentration in film, and a 2003 Knight Center for Specialized Journalism fellow. She has appeared as a political commentator on national and local television and radio, including MSNBC, CNBC, Miami PBS affiliate WPBT Channel 2 (where she is a frequent panelist on the weekly public affairs program “Issues,” hosted by Miami journalist Helen Ferre,) on WTVJ/NBC 6, Britain’s Sky News and Miami radio stations Hot 105 and 103.5 The Beat.

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