Jason Johnson Biography
Jason Johnson is an American political scientist, commentator, and writer working at MSNBC and CNN. He serves as a regular political contributor to the 2 networks. He is also the author of the book “Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell”.
Jason Johnson Age
Johnson is 45 years old as of 2021. He was born on March 14, 1976, in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. He celebrates his birthday on the 14 of March every year.
Jason Johnson Height
Johnson stands at a height of 6 feet 4 inches (1.93m) tall.
Jason Johnson Family
Johnson has managed to keep his personal life away from the limelight hence he has not disclosed any information about his parents. It is also not known if Johnson has any siblings.
Jason Johnson Wife
Johnson is openly gay. However, he has not disclosed the name of his partner as he likes to keep his personal life private.
Jason Johnson Net Worth
Johnson has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million – $5 Million which he has earned through his career as an anchor.
Jason Johnson Salary
Johnson earns an annual salary ranging from $ 45,000 – $ 110,500.
Jason Johnson Education
Johnson attended the University of Virginia where he earned his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in government. Later on, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received a Master of Arts (M.A.) and Ph.D. in political science.
Jason Johnson Career
Johnson serves at MSNBC and CNN as a regular political contributor. Furthermore, he is the author of the book “Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell”. Johnson also serves as an associate professor of communication and journalism at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he teaches courses that concentrate on international and political journalism.
He was named the politics editor for The Source in October 2010. Furthermore, he also served as politics editor of The Root until early 2020. In addition, he was a former professor at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio where he taught political science and communications.
He can be seen often on MSNBC, and Al Jazeera English as a commentator, and in addition, he has appeared in The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel. Furthermore, he is a regular political commentator on WYTV in Youngstown, WKBN-TV, WOIO in Cleveland, and WKYC in Ohio.
More to that, he often appears on radio stations such as WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, CKNW in Vancouver, British Columbia, The Basheer Jones Show on WERE, and WCPN in Cleveland. Furthermore, he has appeared on All Things Considered and on NPR’s Morning Edition.
After referring to female African American supporters of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as being from “the Island of Misfit Black Girls” he became temporarily “benched” in February 2020.
His comment to female African American supporters of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as being from “the Island of Misfit Black Girls” made him fired from his position at The Root. While he serves at MSNBC, he has made several other noteworthy statements regarding the 2020 United States presidential election.
In legislative races in Virginia, South Carolina, and Maryland, he served as a campaign manager. In addition, he worked on the 2000 London mayoral election in the field of international and comparative politics. Prior to this, he served in Mexico and South Africa as an international election monitor.
The Wall Street Journal, Akron Beacon Journal, The Plain Dealer, The Cincinnati Enquirer, and The Hill have all quoted him as an expert on politics. In addition, he has also made an appearance in the online edition of Black Enterprise and Essence.
He stated that Sanders’s presidential campaign was done and that he would drop out by August in January 2019. Furthermore, he argued that billionaire presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is not an oligarch, prompting Saagar Enjeti of The Hill to characterize Johnson as a “professional wrong person” in February 2020. In July 2020, he came back to MSNBC, and he serves as a regular political panelist.
Jason Johnson MSNBC
Johnson is working at MSNBC where he works alongside other famous MSNBC anchors and reporters including;
- Lawrence O’Donnell
- Kelly O’Donnell
- Kristen Welker
- Peter Alexander
- Kasie Hunt
- Monica Alba
- Carol Lee
- Garret Haake
- Savannah Guthrie
- Marrianna Sotomayor
- Mike Memoli
- Steve Patterson
- Morgan Radford
- Lester Holt
- Geoff Bennett
- Steve Schmidt
- Richard Lui
- Cynthia McFadden
- Ali Velshi
- Kate Snow
- Jacob Soboroff
- Heldi Przybyla
- Josh Lederman
- Leigh Ann Caldwell
- Tamron Hall
- Eugene Robinson
- Nicolle Wallace
- Chuck Todd
- Steve Kornack
- Rachel Maddow
- Yasmin Vossoughian
- Joshua Johnson
- Lindsey Reiser
- Alicia Menendez
- Chris Jansing
- Savannah Sellers
- Brian Williams
- Alex Witt
- Cori Coffin
- Kendis Gibson
- Ayman Mohyeldin
- Katy Tur
- Andrea Mitchell
- Craig Melvin
- Hallie Jackson
- Stephanie Ruhle
Jason Johnson Social Media Platforms
Johnson is active on his social media accounts and is often seen posting on his Instagram, and Twitter. He has over 238k followers on Twitter, and over 10k followers on Instagram.