Michelle Norris is joining MSNBC as senior contributing editor, following her resignation as a columnist for The Washington Post last month in protest over owner Jeff Bezos’ decision not to endorse in the presidential race.
Rachel Maddow made the announcement this evening on an MSNBC election preview special, which Norris joined. On election night, Norris will be at Howard University, the site of the Harris-Walz campaign’s watch party.
Norris also will be a frequent writer for MSNBC.com.
Bezos defended the decision to block the paper’s planned endorsement by citing polls showing low trust in the media. But the decision led to a backlash, with more than 200,000 dropping their digital subscriptions, according to NPR.
After her resignation from the Post, Norris wrote on X, “The Washington Post’s decision to withhold an endorsement that had been written & approved in an election where core democratic principles are at stake was a terrible mistake & an insult to the paper’s own longstanding standard of regularly endorsing candidates since 1976.”
She added, “The reason given in no way justifies why the newspaper would abdicate its role in informing and guiding voters as it has done in making endorsements in other key races this year, and as it has done in endorsing the candidates who were running against Trump in both 2016 and 2020.”
Norris was a columnist at the Post from 2019 to 2024. Before that, she co-hosted NPR’s All Things Considered from 2002 to 2011.
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