Few names tower over the news business like that of Jonathan Capehart.The classy, intellectual journalist worked his way up the industry from his native New Jersey to the newsroom of The Today Show, and to the pages of The New York Daily News.
His work on the editorial board of the newspaper earned him a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1999.Capehart hit a new level of fame when he landed a job as a columnist for The Washington Post in 2007, as well as a contributor spot on cable news network MSNBC.
Throughout his career, Capehart has lived as an openly gay man, wedding husband Nick Schmidt in 2017. It should come as no surprise then that much of Capehart’s work has focused on issues of sexuality, gender and race, and how those factors play.