Rachel Maddow Biography
Rachel Maddow is a liberal political pundit and host of an American television news program. Maddow co-anchors MSNBC’s special event co-anchors with Brian Williams and hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a nightly television show on the cable network.
Rachel Maddow Age
Maddow is 49 years old as of 2022. She was born Rachel Anne Maddow on 1 April 1973 in Castro Valley, California, United States.
Rachel Maddow Height
Maddow stands at a height of 5 feet and 10 inches(1.8 m).
Rachel Maddow Family
Robert B. Maddow, Maddow’s father, is a former the United States Air Force captain who resigned his commission the year before her birth and went on to work for the East Bay Municipal Utility District as a lawyer. Elaine (née Gosse), her mother, worked as a school program supervisor. David, her older brother, is her only sibling. Her paternal grandfather was from a family of Russian Jews (the original surname was “Medvedof”) who immigrated to the United States. Her paternal grandmother was a descendant of the Dutch. Maddow’s mother is of English and Irish ancestry and is from Newfoundland and Labrador. Maddow’s family is “very, very Catholic,” and she grew up in a “quite conservative” environment, according to her mother.
Rachel Maddow Education
Maddow was a competitive athlete who competed in volleyball, basketball, and swimming in high school. She attended Stanford University after graduating from Castro Valley High School. She was outed as a lesbian as a freshman by the college newspaper, which published an interview with her before she could tell her parents. In 1994, she graduated from Stanford with a bachelor’s degree in public policy. She received the John Gardner Fellowship at graduation.
She received a Rhodes Scholarship and began postgraduate studies at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1995. In the same year, she was also offered a Marshall Scholarship, which she declined in favor of the Rhodes. As a result, she became the first openly gay Rhodes Scholar. She received her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in politics from the University of Oxford in 2001. Her supervisor was Lucia Zedner, and her thesis was titled HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons.
Rachel Maddow Husband
Maddow lives with her spouse, artist Susan Mikula, in Manhattan, New York, and West Cummington, Massachusetts. When Maddow was working on her doctoral dissertation in 1999, they met.
Rachel Maddow Politics
Maddow was a vocal opponent of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Maddow has stated that the alleged Trump-Russia cooperation went on beyond the 2016 presidential election. She accused Russia of the CIA’s hacking capabilities being revealed by WikiLeaks in Vault 7, adding, “Consider what other US agency Putin despises more than the State Department.” That Putin aspires to defeat? “Isn’t it the CIA?”
Donald Trump’s economic ties to Saudi Arabia, according to Maddow, raise some troubling questions. President Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria in December 2018 was condemned by Maddow. Maddow projected in July 2020 that unemployment data for the preceding month would be “really catastrophic.” Former New York Times writer Barry Meier used Maddow as an example of how journalists can be exploited by private intelligence sources in May 2021.
Rachel Maddow Salary
Maddow earns an annual salary of $20 Million.
Rachel Maddow Net Worth
Maddow has an estimated net worth of $90 Million.
Rachel Maddow Books
In 2012, Maddow published Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, which examined the military’s role in postwar American politics. Drift debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction when it was published. The Washington Post announced in December 2013 that Maddow would write a monthly opinion piece for the publication, writing one article per month for a six-month period. The New York Times published Maddow’s first crossword puzzle on March 2, 2018, in partnership with Joe DiPietro.
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the World’s Richest, Most Destructive Industry was published in October 2019 by Rachel Maddow. The audiobook version of Blowout, which Maddow recorded, won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in March 2021. Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House, which she co-wrote with Michael Yarvitz, will be released in December 2020.
Rachel Maddow The Rachel Maddow Show
Rachel Maddow of MSNBC was the first openly homosexual or lesbian primetime news anchor in the United States. In 2008, she replaced Verdict with Dan Abrams in the network’s 9:00 p.m. time slot, and her show frequently surpassed Countdown as MSNBC’s highest-rated show. MSNBC topped CNN and Fox News in news ratings in mid-May 2017, amid various controversies surrounding the Trump administration. “America’s wonkiest anchor,” according to Rolling Stone, who “cut through the pandemonium of the Trump administration – and became the most trusted name in the news.” She took a break from her show between February and April 2022 to work on the film adaptation of Bag Man.
Rachel Maddow Herring Networks, Inc. v. Rachel Maddow, et al.
The One America News Network (OAN) filed a $10 million lawsuit against Maddow in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California on September 10, 2019, after Maddow referred to the network as “paid Russian propaganda” on her show on July 22. Maddow had repeated a Daily Beast story in which an OAN employee was identified as also working for Sputnik News, which is owned by the Russian government-owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya and has been accused of deliberately disseminating disinformation and is frequently described as a propaganda outlet. Comcast, MSNBC, and NBCUniversal Media were also mentioned in the lawsuit.
Judge Cynthia Bashant dismissed the case on May 22, 2020, finding that “the contested remark is an opinion that cannot serve as the foundation for a defamation.” Herring Networks, the parent company of OAN, has stated that they intend to appeal. The United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit affirmed Maddow’s victory in August 2021 after examining Herring’s appeal. The Court of Appeals also upheld a lower court decision ordering Herring to pay Maddow’s legal fees.
Rachel Maddow Radio
In 1999, Maddow began her career as a radio broadcaster at WRNX in Holyoke, Massachusetts, which was then home to “The Dave in the Morning Show.” She competed and won a contest held by the station to find a new second lead for Dave Brinnel, the show’s main host. She presented Big Breakfast on WRSI in Northampton, Massachusetts, for two years after the WRNX show, until leaving in 2004 to join the new Air America. She co-hosted Unfiltered with Chuck D and Lizz Winstead until March 2005, when the show was canceled.
Maddow’s weekday two-hour radio show, The Rachel Maddow Show, began airing two weeks after Unfiltered was canceled in April 2005; in March 2008, it gained the third hour, broadcasting from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. EST, with David Bender filling in for the call-in segment when Maddow was on TV assignment. When Maddow debuted a nightly MSNBC television program in 2008, the show’s length was reduced to two hours. Maddow returned to the 5:00 a.m. hour in 2009 after renewing her contract with Air America.
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.