In her first public comments since departing MSNBC, Joy Reid confesses to experiencing a whole range of emotions about the end of her show, The ReidOut.
“I’ve been through every emotion over the past several days,” Reid said during an appearance on the Win With Black Women podcast on Sunday night. She added that those emotions included “anger, rage, disappointment, hurt. I’m feeling guilt, you know, that I let my team lose their jobs.”
Still dealing with the immediate aftershock of no longer being part of MSNBC and its evening lineup, Reid spoke about the messages of support she has received since the news broke. Fighting back tears, Reid offered a positive perspective on what has transpired, saying: “Where I really land and where I’ve landed on today is just gratitude.”
Reflecting on The ReidOut, Reid said that the show “had value and that what I was doing had value.” She addressed the wide variety of subject matter she covered on the program, which ranged from Black Lives Matter and immigration to the current Donald Trump administration and the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
“I am not sorry that I stood up for those things, because those things are of God,” she said when referencing the events in that that region.
MSNBC made Reid’s departure official on Monday, announcing an overhaul of its weekday and weekend schedules. Starting in April, Reid’s 7 p.m. schedule will feature The Weekend ensemble of Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez. They will anchor the weekday 7 p.m. hour on Tuesday through Friday, plus a two-hour block from 7-9 p.m. on Mondays. Menendez will be the first Latina woman to host a primetime cable news program on MSNBC.
In a note to staffers, MSNBC’s newly appointed president, Rebecca Kutler, thanked Reid for her time at MSNBC, saying: “We thank her for her countless contributions over the years. Her work has been recognized with several esteemed honors, including, most recently, the 2025 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News Series.”
Reid was not the only MSNBC personality to lose her show in the overhaul. Alex Wagner—who previously anchored the 9 p.m. slot on Tuesday to Thursday—will now become the network’s senior political analyst. Jen Psaki will take over that timeslot after Rachel Maddow returns to anchoring on Mondays in May.
Reid had been with the network since 2011, starting as a contributor, moving to weekend anchor in 2016, and landing on the primetime schedule in 2020.