Jonathan Capehart

Jonathan Capehart is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is co-host of the morning edition of
“The Weekend” on MS NOW (7am – 10am) and the New York Times bestselling author of “Yet
Here I Am: Lessons from A Black Man’s Search for Home.” From 2020 until 2025, he was the
anchor of MSNBC’s “The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart.” At PBS, Capehart
serves as a political analyst on “PBS News Hour” and is featured on the popular Friday segment
“Brooks and Capehart.”

Capehart is a former Associate Editor of The Washington Post, where he served as an opinion
writer for 18 years. He was a member of The Post’s editorial board from 2007 until 2022. He also
hosted the weekly Post podcast “Capehart” and the weekly Post Live show “First Look.”
Capehart’s MSNBC special “A Promised Land: A Conversation with Barack Obama” was
nominated in 2021 for an Emmy for “Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis.” His MS NOW
special “The Look: A Conversation with Michelle Obama” in 2025 was the former First Lady’s firstever one-on-one cable television interview. Pride of the White House” won a GLAAD Media
Award for “Outstanding TV Journalism – Long Form” in 2022.

Capehart was a Spring 2019 Fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service. In
2022, he received an honorary degree from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. He received an
honorary degree from his alma mater, Carleton College, in 2023 and was elected to its Board of
Trustees in 2024.

From 2002 to 2004, Capehart was deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News and
served on that paper’s editorial board from 1993 to 2000. In 1999, his 16-month editorial campaign
to save the famed Apollo Theater earned him and the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
Capehart left the Daily News in July 2000 to become the national affairs columnist at Bloomberg
News, and took a leave from this position in February 2001 to serve as a policy adviser to Michael
Bloomberg in his first campaign for New York City mayor.