Alex Wagner

Alex Wagner
Wagner in 2018
Born
Alexandra Swe Wagner

(1977-11-27) November 27, 1977 (age 47)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
EducationBrown University (BA)
Occupation
  • Television host
Spouse
​
(m. 2014)​
Children2

Alexandra Swe Wagner (born November 27, 1977) is an American television host. She is the host of Alex Wagner Tonight on MSNBC and the author of FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging (One World/Random House). She was a contributor for CBS News and is a contributing editor at The Atlantic.[1][2] In 2022, she hosted the first season of Netflix's The Mole reboot.[3] Previously, she was the anchor of the daytime program Now with Alex Wagner (2011–2015) on MSNBC and the co-host of The Circus on Showtime.[4] From November 2016 until March 2018, she was a TV co-anchor on CBS This Morning Saturday. She has also been a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine since April 2016.[5]

After serving as a fill-in host for both The Rachel Maddow Show and All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, she began hosting Alex Wagner Tonight on August 16, 2022.[6]

Early life and education

Alex Wagner was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Her mother, Tin Swe Thant, is an immigrant from Yangon, Myanmar, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen before attending Swarthmore College.[7] Her father, Carl Wagner, from Lansing, Iowa, was of Luxembourgish, German and Irish descent and is a graduate of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. He was a prominent Democratic Party political consultant who co-chaired Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.[8][9][10] She attended Woodrow Wilson High School (renamed Jackson-Reed in 2022)[11] and graduated from Brown University in 1999, having studied art history and literature.[12][13] Wagner was raised Roman Catholic.[14]

Career

Wagner has worked as the cultural correspondent for the Center for American Progress.[15] From 2003 to 2007, she was editor-in-chief of The Fader magazine, covering music and cultural movements from around the world.[16] She also served as executive director of Not on Our Watch Project, an advocacy organization focused on mass atrocities and human rights violations.[16]

Wagner then became the White House correspondent for Politics Daily, a political news magazine under AOL News.[16] She moved to The Huffington Post after it was acquired by AOL.[17]

As an analyst on MSNBC, Wagner appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.[18]

On November 14, 2011, Wagner began hosting Now with Alex Wagner weekdays (originally at noon ET, but later at 4 PM ET).[19] On July 30, 2015, MSNBC President Phil Griffin announced that the series had been cancelled in an effort to transition the network's daytime programming to more breaking news reporting and less political commentary and opinion. The next day the program aired its final episode. MSNBC later announced that Wagner would host a weekend program, but those plans were later abandoned.

On April 26, 2016, The Atlantic announced that Wagner was leaving MSNBC to join the magazine as a senior editor. In addition to writing for The Atlantic, Wagner would moderate events with AtlanticLIVE and help with developing video and TV projects with The Atlantic Studios.[5] In November 2016, Wagner replaced Vinita Nair on CBS This Morning Saturday.[20] March 17, 2018, was her last appearance on CBS This Morning Saturday as she confirmed she would be leaving that show to co-host The Circus for Showtime, replacing Mark Halperin.[21]

In 2020, Wagner launched a podcast with Crooked Media and Cadence13 that addressed the COVID-19 pandemic.[22] In August 2022, Wagner began presenting Alex Wagner Tonight, taking over Maddow's 9 PM slots on Tuesdays through Fridays as the latter scaled back to Mondays only.[6][23]

Political views

Wagner has described herself as progressive.[24] On matters involving Israel, she has said that there is an element of "trepidation that inhibits a robust discussion about Israel in the American media" due to fears of being falsely slurred as an anti-Semite.[25]

Personal life

On August 30, 2014, Wagner married former White House nutrition policy advisor and assistant chef Sam Kass in a ceremony held at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, a restaurant in Pocantico Hills, New York.[26] The wedding was attended by then U.S. President Barack Obama and his family, as Kass had been the Obama family personal chef since they lived in Chicago.[26][27] Wagner and Kass' first child, Cyrus, was born in 2017.[28] On April 16, 2019, she gave birth to their second son, Rafael.

Books

In April 2018, Futureface, her book about her Burmese American ancestry, was published.[21]

References

  1. ^ Reese, Hope (March 26, 2018). "How I Get It Done: CBS News Contributor Alex Wagner". The Cut. Retrieved Apr 16, 2018.
  2. ^ "The Atlantic Announces Ideas Columnists Ibram X. Kendi, Annie Lowrey, Alex Wagner, and Kevin D. Williamson". The Atlantic. March 22, 2018. Retrieved Apr 16, 2018.
  3. ^ Petski, Denise (September 8, 2022). "Alex Wagner To Host Netflix's 'The Mole' Reboot". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  4. ^ Johnson, Ted (March 15, 2018). "Alex Wagner on the Return of Showtime's 'The Circus': 'We Will Get the Story'". Variety. Retrieved Apr 16, 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Alex Wagner Leaves MSNBC for The Atlantic". politico.com. April 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Alex Wagner's New MSNBC Show Will Be Titled Alex Wagner Tonight". www.adweek.com. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
  7. ^ Goodman, Lizzy (April 19, 2012). "Politicool: Alex Wagner". Elle. Archived from the original on February 26, 2015. Retrieved August 11, 2012. Wagner, who is 34 but looks 26, is young to have her own TV show... "I feel strongly about this as the first-generation American on my mom's side," Wagner says. (Her mother is from Burma, her father, Carl Wagner, from Iowa.)
  8. ^ "Burmese-American Alex Wagner Hosts Her Own U.S. Political TV Show". IIP Digital, U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on May 7, 2013 – via Internet Archive.
  9. ^ ""Futureface": Alex Wagner digs into the "ugly parts" of her family history". CBS This Morning. April 17, 2018.
  10. ^ Post, Bart Barnes The Washington (30 June 2017). "Carl Wagner, Democratic strategist co-chaired Clinton's run, dies at 72". The Frederick News-Post. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  11. ^ Neal, Jill Hudson. "Alex Wagner: A Voice for All Things Now". Capitol File. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  12. ^ Weisberg, Jacob (January 22, 2014). "The Talk of the Town: Alex Wagner and Sam Kass—Politics' It Couple". Vogue. Retrieved Sep 1, 2014.
  13. ^ "Now with Alex Wagner - Biographies". NBCUniversal. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
  14. ^ Real Clear Politics: "Fireworks: MSNBC's Alex Wagner vs. Ron Paul On Syria, Liberty, Anti-Semitism" September 5, 2013 | Wagner: I was raised in a Catholic Family, so that's the last thing I'd want to do.
  15. ^ "Alex Wagner". Politics Daily. 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
  16. ^ a b c "Alex Wagner". The Huffington Post. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
  17. ^ Weprin, Alex (October 20, 2011). "Political Analyst Alex Wagner to Host New NoonET Show on MSNBC". TV Newser. Retrieved Oct 21, 2011.
  18. ^ Alvarez, Alex (October 21, 2011). "MSNBC Analyst Alex Wagner Developing Her Own Noontime Show On The Network". Mediaite. Retrieved Oct 21, 2011.
  19. ^ Knox, Merrill (November 11, 2011). "'Now With Alex Wagner' Debuts Monday on MSNBC". TV Newser. Retrieved Nov 11, 2011.
  20. ^ Rob, Owen (November 18, 2016). "TV Q&A: TV news personalities, ABC on demand and a departed national news anchor". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  21. ^ a b Ted Johnson, Alex Wagner on the Return of Showtime’s ‘The Circus’: ‘We Will Get the Story’, Variety, March 15, 2018. URL accessed March 17, 2018
  22. ^ "SIX FEET APART WITH ALEX WAGNER". Crooked Media. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  23. ^ Hipes, Patrick (June 27, 2022). "Alex Wagner To Take Over Rachel Maddow's Time Slot At MSNBC". Deadline. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
  24. ^ Byers, Dylan (June 9, 2012). "MSNBC's Alex Wagner breaks the old mold". Politico.
  25. ^ Haaretz: "MSNBC host Alex Wagner: Fear of anti-Semitism charge inhibits 'robust discussion' about Israel" by Chemi Shalev. March 15, 2013.
  26. ^ a b Korte, Gregory (August 30, 2014). "Obamas attend wedding of White House chef". USA Today. Gannett Satellite Information Network. Retrieved August 31, 2014.
  27. ^ Steinhauer, Jennifer (August 28, 2014). "Sam Kass, the Obamas' Foodmaster General". The New York Times. Washington, D.C. Retrieved August 31, 2014.
  28. ^ "Alex Wagner on Twitter". Twitter. August 5, 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
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