Joy-Ann ("Joy") Reid has worked in television and radio news since 1998, including for NBC News affiliate WTVJ and Fox station WSVN. She has written columns for the Miami Herald, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Salon.com and the South Florida Times. As a radio personality, Ms. Reid has interviewed national media and political figures, including Bill Cosby, O.J. Simpson, Russell Simmons, former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, and then-Senator and then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.

During the 2004 presidential election, Reid served as Florida deputy communications director for the Democratic-leaning 527 America Coming Together. In 2008, she served as a press aide to then-Senator Barack Obama's Florida campaign.

Ms. Reid is the managing partner of IMAGELAB, LLC, a video production, graphic design and communications firm. She is producing a television documentary, "The Fight Years," which chronicles the history of boxing in Miami.

Ms. Reid is a 1991 graduate of Harvard University, where she majored in visual arts with a concentration in film, and a 2003 Knight Center for Specialized Journalism fellow. She has appeared as a political commentator on radio and television, including Miami PBS affiliate WPBT Channel 2, WTVJ (NBC 6), Britain's Sky News and Miami radio stations Hot 105 and 103.5 The Beat.

She blogs daily at reidreport.com.