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Jonathan Capehart on his Terrific New Memoir and Leaving the Washington Post

Episode 396: Jonathan Capehart on his Terrific New Memoir and Leaving the Washington Post

Journalist, author, MSNBC anchor, and PBS NewsHour host Jonathan Capehart

Show notes

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart is a co-host of the morning edition of The Weekend on MSNBC. From 2020 until 2025 he was anchor of The Saturday Show and The Sunday Show on MSNBC. He is also an analyst on The PBS News Hour. He is a former Associate Editor at the Washington Post, where he was an opinion writer for nearly two decades.He was also deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News and served on its editorial board. His editorial campaign in 1999 to save the Apollo Theater earned the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. His new memoir, “Yet Here I Am: Lessons from A Black Man’s Search for Home,”, is a NY Times bestseller.

Jonathan discusses his terrific new book about his life and career, and shares why after nearly two decades he left The Washington Post this Summer.

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