Michelle Norris is becoming a member of MSNBC as senior contributing editor, following her resignation as a columnist for The Washington Post final month in protest over proprietor Jeff Bezos’ choice to not endorse within the presidential race.
Rachel Maddow made the announcement this night on an MSNBC election preview particular, which Norris joined. On election night time, Norris will likely be at Howard College, the positioning of the Harris-Walz marketing campaign’s watch occasion.
Norris additionally will likely be a frequent author for MSNBC.com.
Bezos defended the choice to dam the paper’s deliberate endorsement by citing polls exhibiting low belief within the media. However the choice led to a backlash, with greater than 200,000 dropping their digital subscriptions, in response to NPR.
After her resignation from the Put up, Norris wrote on X, “The Washington Put up’s choice to withhold an endorsement that had been written & accredited in an election the place core democratic ideas are at stake was a horrible mistake & an insult to the paper’s personal longstanding customary of recurrently endorsing candidates since 1976.”
She added, “The explanation given by no means justifies why the newspaper would abdicate its function in informing and guiding voters because it has executed in making endorsements in different key races this yr, and because it has executed in endorsing the candidates who have been operating in opposition to Trump in each 2016 and 2020.”
Norris was a columnist on the Put up from 2019 to 2024. Earlier than that, she co-hosted NPR’s All Issues Thought of from 2002 to 2011.
