Jonathan Capehart

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart has been a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post since 2007.

He is an MSNBC Contributor (“Morning Joe,” "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and near daily presence on MSNBC dayside) and has been a member of the Reporters Roundtable on ABC News's “This Week with George Stephanopolous,” and substitute host on “The Brian Lehrer Show” and “The Leonard Lopate Show” on WNYC.

Capehart was deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily Newsfrom 2002 to 2004, and served on that paper's editorial board from 1993 to 2000.

In 1999, his 16-month editorial campaign to save the famed Apollo Theatre in Harlem earned him and the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.

Capehart left the Daily News in July 2000 to become the national affairs columnist at Bloomberg News, and took a leave from this position in February 2001 to serve as a policy advisor to Michael Bloomberg in his first successful campaign for New York City mayor.