MSNBC Names New Correspondent

MSNBC has named Pulitzer Prize-winning journo Trymaine Lee as a Correspondent. Lee -- who until now was a National Reporter contributing online and on-air for NBC News and MSNBC digital -- will cover the role of race, violence, politics, and law enforcement in America and will bring his expertise in social justice issues to MSNBC’s primetime and weekend programming. He will appear regularly on All In with Chris Hayes, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, and AM Joy. The Rowan University graduate joined NBC News and MSNBC in 2012 as a National Reporter for the digital unit. He previously worked as a reporter for HuffPost, where he is credited with helping elevate the shooting of Trayvon Martin to a national audience. Before that, he was at the NYT, where his coverage of then-Governor Eliot Spitzer’s sex scandal helped earn the newspaper a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. He also earned a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team that covered Hurricane Katrina at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Lee was a 2016 and 2017 Fellow with the New America Foundation and a 2006 recipient of NABJ’s Emerging Journalist of the Year Award. He is currently writing a book on gun violence in America, slated to be released in 2019. Congrats, Trymaine! More here.