Chris Hayes (journalist)

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Chris Hayes (2007)

Christopher Loffredo Hayes (born February 28, 1979 in New York City ) is an American journalist and television presenter .

Life and work

Born in the Bronx to Catholic parents, Hayes attended Hunter College High School, a magnet school for the gifted. He then studied at the renowned Brown University , which he left in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy.

From 2005 to 2006, Hayes was a Schumann Center Writing Fellow for the monthly In These Times .

From 2006 to 2007, Hayes was a Puffin Foundation fellow at The Nation Institute as a writer for The Nation magazine , which finally hired him on November 1, 2007 as a permanent editor. For the next four years he was the main reporter for the magazine from the heart of American politics in Washington, DC Hayes also writes regularly for the Chicago Reader . From 2008 to 2010 he was a fellow of the New America Foundation think tank .

Since 2009, Hayes - who is politically a liberal and leaning towards the Democratic Party - has appeared regularly as a commentator on various programs on the US news broadcaster MSNBC , in which he comments as an expert on current political events or from the perspective of one journalistic connoisseur of the US capital analyzed. As a result, he was entrusted with the guest moderation of programs such as Countdown with Keith Olbermann , The Rachel Maddow Show or The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on various occasions, when the regular moderators could not see them themselves.

From 2011 to 2013, Hayes hosted his own program Up! With Chris Hayes, a two-hour political news program on MSNBC's weekend program, which the station airs on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Up! first aired on September 17, 2011. The program offers a mixture of reports on current political and social events and glossy comments by Hayes on these events, as well as discussions with experts on the topics covered and finally interviews with prominent guests such as the leader of the Democratic group in the House of Representatives , Nancy Pelosi , or the Senator Bernie Sanders . The show was later taken over by Steve Kornacki .

Since April 1, 2013, Hayes has hosted All In with Chris Hayes during prime news time. All in is a newscast that, like all primetime programs on MSNBC, features and commentates on domestic and international news.

Hayes is married to law professor Kate Shaw and has two daughters and a son with her.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kate Shaw. In: cardozo.yu.edu. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Welcome David Emanuel Shaw-Hayes! In: msnbc.com. March 28, 2014, accessed May 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hayes, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hayes, Christopher L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City