Jonathan Capehart

Jonathan Capehart

Jonathan Capehart

Co-host, MS NOW “The Weekend"

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Monday 19 October, 11:15 - 11:35

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Biography

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 deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News (2002-2004) and served on its editorial board (1993-2000). His editorial campaign in 1999 to save the Apollo Theater earned the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.