Longtime White House correspondent April Ryan has joined MSNBC as a contributor and made her first appearance with the network during Morning Joe Tuesday.
Ryan has previous cable news experience. She worked as a political analyst for CNN in addition to working as a White House correspondent and Washington D.C. bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks from 1997 to 2020.
Ryan has worked for digital news outlet TheGrio since 2021. TheGrio describes itself as providing “the latest news and breaking Black news for U.S., world, entertainment, politics, and health for African Americans.”
She serves as the publication’s Washington D.C. Bureau Chief. Ryan is the longest-serving Black woman in the White House Press Corps and is one of only four African-Americans to join the board of the White House Correspondents Association in its history.
The 55-year-old Ryan was named the 2017 Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.
