Rachel Maddow – News Reporter and Author
Rachel Maddow presides over one of the most powerful television news shows in America. She’s an accomplished author and a beloved representative for progressive America.
She graduated from Castro Valley High School and received a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford University, where she won a Rhodes Scholarship. She lives in New York City and Massachusetts with her partner, artist Susan Mikula.
The Rachel Maddow Show
The Rachel Maddow Show features in-depth news coverage and reporting on the day’s most important stories. She interviews individuals at the center of current news events to provide a different perspective on the story. The program also airs a wide variety of political analysis and commentary, as well as a host of special segments. The show is available on iTunes and other platforms with a subscription to MSNBC Premium.
This week on The Rachel Maddow Show, we’ll take a deep dive into the latest developments in the Trump-Russia investigation. We’ll explore some of the strange turns that have emerged in recent days and discuss how they may relate to Trump’s ongoing efforts to derail the Mueller investigation. Plus, we’ll take a look at the new book by Steve Benen, “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”
The acclaimed MSNBC host is taking her popular show on the road this September. She’ll be visiting select U.S. cities to hold special screenings with post-screening panels featuring film subjects Lev Parnas and his wife Svetlana, director Billy Corben and producer Alfred Spellman. The road trip will be a debut for the first feature-length documentary to come out of Maddow’s Surprise Inside production banner. The company aims to entertain with the films while still maintaining high journalistic standards, Maddow has said.
The Rachel Maddow Podcast
The Rachel Maddow Podcast, with Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson, digs into stories from today’s headlines and tries to understand what they have in common with historical antecedent. It is a fascinating show that features a lot of long-form analysis and interviews.
Bag Man, a story of the attempted bribery and murder of then Vice President Spiro Agnew, is an excellent example of how a long-form podcast can go beyond the standard cable pundit model to allow listeners to dig into the details of a complex and important scandal. By contrast, the more ad-driven offerings on most podcast platforms tend to present a simplistic and biased view of events, focusing on a narrow range of talking points that they think will appeal to listeners’ political sensibilities.
In addition to her weekly television show, which premiered in 2008 on MSNBC, Maddow has hosted a variety of radio shows, including one on Air America, a liberal satellite network that was shut down in 2010. After a brief stint working as an on-air sidekick at a morning talk show in Holyoke, Massachusetts, she returned to her PhD dissertation work in AIDS prison advocacy, but soon answered an ad for a cohost position at a local radio station.
After months of discussions quarterbacked by her agents at Endeavor, Maddow was able to secure an NBC deal that allows her to continue her groundbreaking journalism while also pursuing multiple other projects across MSNBC and beyond. She plans to helm multiple podcasts in the future, as well as documentaries and even films.
The Rachel Maddow YouTube Channel
As America grapples with a rising tide of authoritarian trends, one of our most dynamic journalists is digging into the historical roots of those trends in her first original podcast. In Bag Man, Rachel Maddow goes back 45 years to investigate a brazen political bribery scandal that didn’t get much attention in its day. It’s a story of intrigue, corruption and envelopes full of cash that is as relevant now as it was in its own time.
As with her weekly TV show, the eponymous Rachel Maddow Podcast is a conversation about politics and civic life led by an intelligent, thoughtful liberal. The show features a wide variety of topics from a broad intellectual spectrum. The podcast has also become a home for long-form conversations with her guests, including authors and experts on subjects from Title IX to British royals.
Maddow has never shied away from respectful engagement with ideological adversaries, from her early days as a radio host to amiable debates with Pat Buchanan in the days before MSNBC. And with her new project, the Peabody Award-nominated podcast Ultra, she’s extending that sensibility to a series about the all-but-forgotten true stories of an ascendant American demagogue and the frayed line between violent extremism and mainstream politics. Subscribe to Ultra on Apple Podcasts for episode alerts the Friday before they drop and ad-free listening.
The Rachel Maddow Book Club
In this wide-ranging interview, Newmark J-School alumnus Rachel Maddow talks about her path to becoming one of the most influential and popular political commentators in America. She also discusses her new book, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism.
Rachel Maddow is an Emmy award-winning TV show host and bestselling author. Her broad progressive appeal and singular approach to anchoring–story-driven monologues that run up to 30 minutes, connecting dots you didn’t know existed and dragging you down rabbit holes–has made her MSNBC’s ratings champ and the only non-Murdoch figure in cable news capable of playing in the same sandbox as Fox News’ fire-breathers.
She is the author of four books, including “DRIFT: The Unmooring of American Military Power,” which was a #1 New York Times bestseller; and “Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth.” Her new book, “Ultra,” is an all-new original series that tells the all-but-forgotten true story of the line between violent extremism and mainstream politics fraying to reveal an international manhunt for an American traitor, a Nazi war crimes prosecution, and a bizarre foreign influence operation inside Congress. Subscribe to the Ultra season one and two podcasts on Apple Podcasts for early access each Friday and ad-free listening. Rachel is the host of her eponymous weeknight program on MSNBC and a frequent guest on other shows and platforms. She is also the creator and executive producer of the popular MSNBC podcasts Bag Man and Deja News.
