Chris Hayes Biography
Chris Hayes is a political analyst, television news anchor, activist, and author from the United States. Hayes is the host of MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, a weekday news and commentary show. Why Is This Happening? is it a weekly MSNBC program hosted by Hayes Up with Chris Hayes, a weekend MSNBC show was previously hosted by Hayes. He is the Nation magazine’s editor-at-large.
Chris Hayes Age
Hayes is 43 years old as of 2022. She was born Christopher Loffredo Hayes on 28 February 1979 in Norwood, New York, United States.
Chris Hayes Height
Hayes stands at a height of 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m).
Chris Hayes Family
Hayes is the youngest of Roger Hayes and Geri Hayes’ three sons. His mother is of Italian ancestry, while his father is Irish Catholic. While attending a Jesuit seminary in New York, his father went to the Bronx and began community organizing.
Roger, an associate commissioner for the NYC Department of Health, spent several years managing community organizing at the Community Service Society of New York. Hayes’ mother was a teacher who now works for the New York City Department of Education. Hayes was raised Catholic, but stopped going to church in college and now considers himself irreligious. Hayes’ brother Luke worked for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
Chris Hayes Wife
Hayes married Kate Shaw, a former U.S. Supreme Court law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens who is now a professor of law at Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and an ABC News Supreme Court contributor, on July 14, 2007. They met while they were both students at Brown. Andy Shaw, a longtime Chicago reporter, is his father-in-law. Hayes and Shaw lived in Washington, D.C. until they moved to New York City, where Chris Hayes’ show is produced. They are the parents of three children.
Chris Hayes Education
Immortal Technique and Lin-Manuel Miranda were among Hayes’ classmates at New York City’s prestigious Hunter College High School, where Hayes directed Miranda’s debut production. Hayes studied philosophy at Brown University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2001.
Chris Hayes Books
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, Hayes’ debut book, was published by Crown Publishing Group in June 2012. The Atlantic praised it as “provocative” and “thoughtful,” but criticized its policy recommendations as “less satisfactory.” Kirkus Reviews called it “provocative” and “forcefully written.” The book is “compellingly accessible, unbelievably erudite, and—most shockingly of all—correct,” according to Aaron Swartz. Hayes’ second book, A Colony in a Nation, was released in March 2017 by W. W. Norton.
Chris Hayes Salary
Hayes earns an annual salary of $1 million.
Chris Hayes Net Worth
Hayes has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Chris Hayes Press Freedom
Hayes slammed the US government’s decision to prosecute Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, with espionage under the 1917 Espionage Act for his role in the 2010 publishing of a trove of Iraq War papers and diplomatic cables leaked by Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. Hayes wrote on Twitter: “Assange’s espionage indictment for publishing is a frontal attack on the free press that is exceedingly dangerous. Awful, awful, awful.”
Chris Hayes Podcast
Hayes launched Why Is This Happening?, a weekly podcast including conversations with political officials, activists, journalists, writers, and academics, in May 2018. The podcast’s first live edition, with author Ta-Nehisi Coates, was taped in November 2018 at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, New York. On February 24, 2019, Hayes’ second live program featured an interview with Georgia politician and activist Stacey Abrams.
Chris Hayes Cable News
Hayes guest-hosted The Rachel Maddow Show in July 2010 when Maddow was in Afghanistan, and he afterward frequently stood in for her when she was unavailable. Hayes has previously hosted The Ed Show, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, and The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC.
MSNBC stated on November 5, 2010, that Hayes will be stepping in for Keith Olbermann while he was suspended. The network then reversed its decision after learning that Hayes had also made political contributions, which was the reason for Olbermann’s suspension. Hayes is also the most frequent guest on Seth Meyers’ Late Night show.
Chris Hayes Up with Chris Hayes
Hayes will host a two-hour morning show on Saturdays and Sundays, MSNBC announced on August 1, 2011. Up with Chris Hayes first aired on September 17, 2011. Hayes made comments on the air on May 27, 2012, against the use of the word “heroism” in reference to American military slain in action.
Other anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.
