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Jonathan Capehart, Tiffany Cross Take Over 'A.M. Joy' Weekend Slots on MSNBC
Jonathan Capehart and Tiffany Cross were supposed to throw glasses at each other, not toast one another with them.
And yet the duo took to Zoom earlier this week to share a cocktail. After weeks of competing for a coveted weekend slot on MSNBC previously held by Joy Reid, both will get part of it: Cross, a political analyst and former resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, will anchor MSNBC on Saturdays between 10 a.m. and noon, while Capehart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is an opinion columnist for the Washington Post and has worked as a contributor at MSNBC since 2009, will lead Sundays in the same time period. Their new shows — official titles have yet to be determined — will debut December 12 and December 13, respectively, and hold forth from Washington, D.C.
Both anchors want to build on the efforts of Reid, whose “A.M. Joy” created a new weekend habit for curious MSNBC viewers eager to gain perspective on the headlines. “The people who come to MSNBC between ten and noon are people who know what the news is,” says Capehart, in an interview. “They come to us because they want to know the connection with other big stories, how it fits into the larger coverage, and why should I care?”
The two have since July helped to fill in on weekends, along with Zerlina Maxwell, a political analyst. Maxwell was given a daily program on NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming-video hub. Each member of the trio was, with every appearance, essentially auditioning for Reid’s weekend job, with MSNBC executives eager to see whether each anchor brought people who followed them in their other jobs over to the network. The process was unorthodox at best.
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/jonathan-capehart-tiffany-cross-msnbc-weekend-joy-reid-1234844992/
And yet the duo took to Zoom earlier this week to share a cocktail. After weeks of competing for a coveted weekend slot on MSNBC previously held by Joy Reid, both will get part of it: Cross, a political analyst and former resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, will anchor MSNBC on Saturdays between 10 a.m. and noon, while Capehart, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is an opinion columnist for the Washington Post and has worked as a contributor at MSNBC since 2009, will lead Sundays in the same time period. Their new shows — official titles have yet to be determined — will debut December 12 and December 13, respectively, and hold forth from Washington, D.C.
Both anchors want to build on the efforts of Reid, whose “A.M. Joy” created a new weekend habit for curious MSNBC viewers eager to gain perspective on the headlines. “The people who come to MSNBC between ten and noon are people who know what the news is,” says Capehart, in an interview. “They come to us because they want to know the connection with other big stories, how it fits into the larger coverage, and why should I care?”
The two have since July helped to fill in on weekends, along with Zerlina Maxwell, a political analyst. Maxwell was given a daily program on NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming-video hub. Each member of the trio was, with every appearance, essentially auditioning for Reid’s weekend job, with MSNBC executives eager to see whether each anchor brought people who followed them in their other jobs over to the network. The process was unorthodox at best.
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/jonathan-capehart-tiffany-cross-msnbc-weekend-joy-reid-1234844992/
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... cheers to both!
I think Johnson is a bit too outspoken for MSNBC, but I love him! Sometimes he leaves Nichole Wallace speechless. Not in a bad way, just in a "Wow, he really called it like it is," way. IMO, anyway. 
... hopefully they'll be the new replacements for Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd, who will suddenly want to spend more time with their families. I hope that happens real soon.
