Joy Reid has officially signed off and said goodbye to The ReidOut family.
Following the sudden cancellation of MSNBC’s The ReidOut, the longtime host bid her final farewell by thanking her amazing team as well as those who have followed along for her nearly five-year journey.
“Shoutout to our amazing readers, our audience,” Reid said during the Feb. 24 broadcast. “I just love running into y’all in the airport, in these streets and on social media.”
“Thank you, thank you, thank you,” she continued, “for holding us down almost five years. We are a toddler and we out in these streets, in this world, and we are not gonna stop.”
And while rumors had started circulating over the weekend, it was just earlier that day that Rebecca Kulter—MSNBC’s new president as of earlier this year—announced the show would be ending and Reid would be exiting the network, with plans to fill her 7 p.m. spot with The Weekend’s Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez.
"Joy Reid is leaving the network and we thank her for her countless contributions over the years," Kulter wrote in a Feb. 24 statement to staff, obtained by People. "Her work has been recognized with several esteemed honors, including most recently, the 2025 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News Series."
Many others also recognized the impact Reid left behind, including former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who shared a few words to honor her at the beginning of her show Inside with Jen Psaki, which aired right after the final episode of The ReidOut.
“I want to thank her because she’s done amazing work here,” Psaki said of Reid. “She does tell stories no one tells—she does that fearlessly on her show—but also for the person that she is.”
Just hours before the memo went out, Reid expressed just how thankful she has been for the community she’s built over the years.
“I just want to say thank you to everyone who has reached out with kindness and encouragement, both personally and in these social media streets,” she wrote in her Feb. 24 Instagram post confirming her departure. “So very proud of The Reidout @joy.msnbc.com team, who are truly family, and all of our supporters & friends.”
Reid isn’t the only host bidding farewell to their show, however, as NBC Nightly News’ longtime anchor Lester Holt also announced that same day that he would be leaving the show after a decade to take up a full-time role at Dateline.
“A smile comes to my face when I think that with Nightly News, and Dateline, I have now anchored two of the most successful and iconic television news programs in broadcast history,” Holt wrote in a Feb. 24 note to staff of both series, shared by NBC News. “As a 20-year-old radio reporter on the police beat chasing breaking news around San Francisco, I could never have imagined my career path would unfold in the way it has. What an amazing ride.”
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