Rachel Maddow
| Rachel Maddow | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | MSNBC |
| Role: | Journalist |
| Location: | New York, N.Y. |
| Education: | •Stanford University •Oxford University |
| Website: | Official website |
Rachel Maddow is a journalist who hosts MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, which debuted in 2008. Maddow is also the author of a 2012 book, DRIFT: The Unmoooring of American Military Power.[1]
Career
Maddow began her work as a journalist on the radio. After earning a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, she attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, eventually earning her doctorate in political science. Maddow began work for radio stations in Massachusetts while finishing her dissertation and became a host on Air America Radio beginning in 2004. Maddow joined MSNBC as a political analyst in 2008.[1]
Since 2008, Maddow has hosted The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. The show airs on weeknights in primetime. Rolling Stone noted that Maddow's journalistic style is built on her interest in politics and political gain on a large scale. In 2012, the magazine reported that Maddow's interests are "not politics as personality but politics as mechanism, not who is winning power but what is being done with it."[2]
A 2016 profile in Variety noted that the show is atypical of cable news shows in that it does not usually feature guest commentators or "talking heads." The magazine noted that Maddow's show "instead pivots on Maddow’s ability to synthesize the nitty-gritty of a situation brewing in some part of the country and make it of interest to the broader populace."[3] NPR noted that when Maddow does interview guests on her show, she typically challenges experts to present facts. She told NPR she does this because "people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it."[4]
Presidential debates, 2015-2016
On January 31, 2016, MSNBC announced that Maddow and Chuck Todd would moderate a Democratic debate on February 4, 2016, in Durham, N.H.[5] Initially, although both Hillary Clinton and Martin O'Malley committed, Bernie Sanders declined to participate, as the debate had not been sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee.[6] The DNC approved the debate on February 1, 2016.[7] When O'Malley suspended his presidential campaign on February 1, 2016, Clinton and Sanders were the only remaining participants.[8]
Media
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 NBC News, "Rachel Maddow," accessed February 3, 2016
- ↑ Rolling Stone, "Rachel Maddow's Quiet War," June 27, 2012
- ↑ Variety, "As MSNBC Makes Shifts, Rachel Maddow Presses On," February 1, 2016
- ↑ NPR, "Rachel Maddow: The Fresh Air Interview," March 27, 2012
- ↑ MSNBC, "MSNBC to host New Hampshire Democratic debate," January 31, 2016
- ↑ USA Today, "Bernie Sanders says no to unsanctioned debate," January 27, 2016
- ↑ Daily Kos, "DWS and the DNC Approve of Additional Debate! What Changed?" February 1, 2016
- ↑ Advocate, "That Rachel Maddow Debate Just Got Really Interesting," February 2, 2016
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