Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart is the co-host of “The Weekend,” airing Saturdays and Sundays from 7 to 10 a.m. ET on MSNBC, soon to be MS NOW.

A longtime MS NOW host, he also serves as a political analyst on “PBS NewsHour” and is featured on the popular Friday segment, “Brooks and Capehart.”

Capehart has also hosted several MSNBC specials. In 2021, his MSNBC special “A Promised Land: A Conversation with Barack Obama” was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis. Additional specials include the “Pride of Stage and Screen” and “Pride of the White House,” the latter earning him a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism—Long Form in 2022.

Capehart was the deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News (2002 to 2004) and served on its editorial board from 1993 to 2000. In 1999, his editorial campaign to save the 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 leave from this position in February 2001 to serve as a policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg in his first successful campaign for New York City Mayor. Capehart was also previously an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post.

His memoir, “Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home,” was published by Twelve Books in 2025.