Jonathan Capehart, Early Life, Career, Award and Honors, Personal Life, Net Worth

Jonathan Capehart is a Hollywood journalist and television personality. He is recognized for writing for The Washington PostPartisan blog. Also, he hosts the show The Sunday with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC.

Also, worked with New York Daily News, serving as a member of its editorial board since 1993-2000.

Jonathan Capehart Early Life

On July 2 in 1967, Jonathan Capehart was born and raised in Hazlet, New Newark, and New Jersey, the U.S. Further, he enrolled from the Saint Benedict’s Preparatory School for his study.

Besides, he completed his advanced academic at Carleton College and also he is graduated with his degree in Journalism.

Concerning his parent’s details, his mother’s name is Margaret Capehart, and his father’s details are unavailable. If he has a sibling or not is undisclosed.

There seems he has kept a secret about his early life too. Moreover, he holds an American nationality and belongs to African American of Ethnicity.

Jonathan Capehart Career

Knowing about his career, he began working for NBC’s The Today Show as a specialist. In the early years of 1993-2000, he started working for New York Daily News (NYDN).

Later in 2000, he decided to leave the show Daily News to work at Bloomberg News.

Apart from this, he notified and wrote speeches for Michael Bloomberg through Bloomberg’s 2001 race for the mayoralty of New York City.

Again, he returned to N.Y. Daily News in 2002 and served as a deputy editor of the editorial page sheet till 2004.

Capehart joined the global public relations company Hill & Knowlton as a Senior Vice President and senior counselor of public affairs in 2004 December.

Similarly, in 2007, Jonathan Capehart Washington Post’s Profession transpired to an agent.

Then he began working as a columnist and besides was an individual from the editorial board. Additionally, he started working for MSNBC at the same time.

Therefore, he has continued performing as a contributing analyst for MSNBC.

He hosted the show Cape Up podcast, in which he talked about race, age, gender, religion, and cultural identity in politics. Likewise, in 2018 he started hosting as a guest at the WNYC radio show Midday on WNYC.

Somehow, two years later, on December 13, 2020, he hosted the premiere episode of The Sunday with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC.

And after 2021 January, he replaced Mark Shield in the Friday political commentary part on the PBS NewsHour.

Award and Honors

Capehart was a fundamental contributor to a New York Daily News crew note that got the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1999. The array of editorials condemned the economic mismanagement of Harlem’s Apollo Theater.

Jonathan was a 2011 Esteem Honoree, a particular given to individuals in honor of efforts to promote the African American and LGBT societies in entertainment, media, civil rights, business, and art.

On the 50th anniversary of the first LGBTQ Pride parade, Queerty named him with the fifty heroes leading the nation toward equality, acceptance, and dignity for all personalities in 2020 June.

Jonathan Capehart Personal Life

The T.V. personality Capehart is gay and was married. Hence, Jonathan was married to Nick Schmit on June 7, 2017, proving him gay.

The two married 2016 in May by Eric Holder. Schmit works as the Assistant Cheif of Protocol at the State Department.

The couple dated for five years. Eric is a retired U.S. general attorney.  And the lovebirds do not have any kids.

Jonathan Capehart Net Worth

The 54 years old Capehart has earned a large sum of income from his professional career, although he has not disclosed his specific salary and income.

As of 2021, his net worth is about $3 million. Jonathan has gathered it from his career in many network and print media.

At the same time, his income and salary are still not available. Currently, he is still pursuing his work, and perhaps he will increase his net worth in the upcoming years.

Besides, his car and mansion are not known in front of the public.

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