Jonathan Capehart
Jonathan Capehart is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associate Editor of The Washington Post. Since 2007, he has been an opinion writer at The Post and was a member of The Post’s editorial board until 2022. He hosts the weekly Post podcast “Capehart” and the weekly Post Live show “First Look.” At MSNBC, Mr. Capehart is the anchor of “The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart,” which debuted on Feb. 18th, and “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart,” which has been on the air since 2020. His MSNBC special “A Promised Land: A Conversation with Barack Obama” was nominated in 2021 for an Emmy for “Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis.” His MSNBC special “Pride of the White House” won a GLAAD Media Award for “Outstanding TV Journalism - Long Form” in 2022. At PBS, Mr. Capehart serves as a political analyst on “The PBS Newshour” and is featured on the popular Friday segment “Brooks and Capehart.” He has moderated panels and conversations at the 92nd Street Y, the Connecticut Forum, Aspen Ideas Festival and for the Aspen Institute, the Center for American Progress, and at the Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund. Mr. 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. His memoir will be published by Grand Central Publishing in 2025.
