Joy Ann Reid’s Show Canceled: What’s in Store for Her Career After MSNBC?

The Breakdown: Joy Reid is among the few Black women in the media who are making changes from the inside. Her celebrated career as a writer, correspondent, and television host earned her the historic position as the first Black woman to land an MSNBC primetime show, her nightly show The ReidOut.

Unfortunately, in February 2025, Joy's platform faced some life-altering changes she didn't see coming. The move came after acquiring a robust net worth to ensure her bag remains secured.

Here's a look at Joy's coins.

Celebrity Net Worth shows Joy's net worth is $4 million. She has amassed her net worth through multiple roles within the media space, acting as an editor for The Grio and crafting her political blog, The Reid Report. The latter became Joy's first show of the same name with MSNBC in February 2014. The show lasted only for a year but marked the beginning of Joy's MSNBC tenure.

She hosted several programs with the network, including AM Joy in 2016. The ReidOut launched in 2020, taking over Chris Matthews's time slot. Joy is also a sought-after book publisher and has published several books centered on politics, including 2014's Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide, The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story, and We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama.

And because our sis refuses to sleep, she's also an Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University in her spare time, per Diverse Education. While there, she teaches "Race, Gender, and Media."

Joy's time at MSNBC was abruptly cut short on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. The network announced her departure via a memo.

"Joy Reid is leaving the network, and we thank her for her countless contributions over the years," MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler wrote (via NPR). "Her work has been recognized with several esteemed honors, including most recently, the 2025 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News Series. In the coming weeks, rotating anchors will host the hour."

While the network didn't explain what led to Joy's departure, her exit came amid President Donald Trump's attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The firing also happened after years of Joy being vocally critical of President Donald Trump and issues like the Black Lives Matter movement and the war on Gaza.

Joy expressed her unapologetic support of the movements during a Zoom call with the organization Win With Black Women, who scheduled the call the same day the news of her firing broke.

"But in the end, where I really land, and where I've landed on today, is just gratitude," she said while crying on the call. "Not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me. But also that my show had value."

"I am not sorry I stood up for those things because those things are of God," she added.

Joy aired her final The ReidOut episode on Feb. 24, where she called out the Trump Administration by posing, "When you are in the midst of a crisis, specifically a crisis of democracy, how do you resist? When fascism isn’t just coming, it’s already here?" She further addressed the firing and perceived war on the era of "theft" Black women are experiencing.

“Our opportunity to participate in this democracy is being threatened,” she declared at Essence's Black Women in Hollywood event, per The Hollywood Reporter. “We are losing the service, potentially, of federal workers who are disproportionately us in the service that we disproportionately give.”

“Equity is important because we come in knowing we have to be better, more educated, stronger, more prepared than anyone else when we walk into a room," Joy added. "And so we are. And so in each of the spaces that we exist, we tend to be the best, “And that equity is not just equity for us, it’s equity for these companies and organizations that we serve."