Veteran journalist and political analyst Pleasure-Ann (Pleasure) Reid is getting into the podcast area along with her new multimedia enterprise, The Pleasure Reid Present.
Launching June 9, Reid will launch episodes thrice per week throughout YouTube and all main podcast platforms. Produced by Picture Lab Media Group, the present guarantees Reid’s signature political commentary in a format that blends reporting, interviews, and viewers engagement.
Set in a custom-designed basement model in Washington, D.C., the podcast will characteristic episodes each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with every present specializing in totally different themes.
Monday and Wednesday installments will embody Reid’s tackle present political and cultural headlines, together with in-depth interviews with public figures. Fridays, which have been dubbed “Freestyle Fridays,” are anticipated to be extra interactive, with Reid incorporating dwell Q&A classes with viewers and particular company.
The present’s preview episode options Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a 2025 gubernatorial candidate. The episode will air simply forward of New Jersey’s June 10 major. Comic and author Amber Ruffin will seem within the official debut episode, whereas Ebrahim Rasool, the previous South African ambassador to the U.S., can also be slated to affix the early lineup.
This pivot to a extra private platform comes after Reid wrapped her run as host of The ReidOut on MSNBC this February. Reid additionally beforehand helmed the community’s highest-rated weekend present, AM Pleasure. Each applications centered on political evaluation by way of the lens of race, tradition, and coverage.
“This new podcast marks an thrilling new chapter – a possibility to succeed in broader audiences, construct vibrant communities, and lead considerate conversations on the problems that matter,” Reid mentioned in an announcement.
The Pleasure Reid Present additionally plans to include content material from Pleasure’s Home, Reid’s Substack group of over 160,000 subscribers, and can revive segments acquainted to followers of her earlier work, together with “Who Received the Week?”
Reids profession additionally contains penning a number of best-selling books, together with The Man Who Offered America and Medgar and Myrlie. She is a graduate of Harvard College and co-founder of Picture Lab Media Group, which can also be producing The Pleasure Reid Present.
The present is anticipated to increase to a five-day-a-week format later this yr.
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