Jonathan Capehart
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Jonathan Capehart is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is co-host of the morning edition of “The Weekend” and the NYT bestselling author of Yet Here I Am: Lessons from A Black Man’s Search for Home, published in May 2025. From 2020 until 2025, he was the anchor of “The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart.” At PBS, Capehart serves as a political analyst on “The 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 a member of The Post’s editorial board from 2007 until 2022. He also hosted the weekly Post podcast “Capehart” and the weekly Post Live show “First Look.”
Capehart’s MS NOW special “A Promised Land: A Conversation with Barack Obama” was nominated in 2021 for an Emmy for “Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis.” His MS NOW special “Pride of the White House” won a GLAAD Media Award for “Outstanding TV Journalism - Long Form” in 2022.
From 2002 to 2004, Capehart was deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News and served on that paper’s editorial board from 1993 to 2000. In 1999, his 16-month editorial campaign to save the famed Apollo Theater earned him and the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. Capehart left the Daily News in July 2000 to become the national affairs columnist at Bloomberg News, and took a leave from this position in February 2001 to serve as a policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg in his first campaign for New York City mayor.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Jonathan Capehart is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is co-host of the morning edition of “The Weekend” and the NYT bestselling author of Yet Here I Am: Lessons from A Black Man’s Search for Home, published in May 2025. From 2020 until 2025, he was the anchor of “The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart.” At PBS, Capehart serves as a political analyst on “The 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 a member of The Post’s editorial board from 2007 until 2022. He also hosted the weekly Post podcast “Capehart” and the weekly Post Live show “First Look.”
Capehart’s MS NOW special “A Promised Land: A Conversation with Barack Obama” was nominated in 2021 for an Emmy for “Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis.” His MS NOW special “Pride of the White House” won a GLAAD Media Award for “Outstanding TV Journalism - Long Form” in 2022.
From 2002 to 2004, Capehart was deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News and served on that paper’s editorial board from 1993 to 2000. In 1999, his 16-month editorial campaign to save the famed Apollo Theater earned him and the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. Capehart left the Daily News in July 2000 to become the national affairs columnist at Bloomberg News, and took a leave from this position in February 2001 to serve as a policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg in his first campaign for New York City mayor.
