Rachel Maddow
Rachel Anne Maddow ( born April 1, 1973) is an American radio and television presenter and commentator.
Life
Maddow grew up in California. As a teenager she attended the Castro Valley College. She then studied at the prestigious Stanford University, where in 1994 she earned a degree in Public Policy. As a Rhodes scholarship in 1995, she went to Oxford, where she completed her graduate studies began at Lincoln College, where she graduated in 2001 with a doctorate. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the issue of HIV / AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons.
After the end of their studies Maddow won a contest in the Holyoke, Massachusetts, established radio station WRNX, which aimed at attracting new talent moderator. As winner of the competition, she received the job as co-host of the morning talk radio show, The Dave in the Morning Show. For the transmitter WRSI Maddow led for two years by the program, Big Breakfast. In March 2004, she left the station to join the newly founded Radiokonetzwerk Air America.
Moderated Together with Chuck D and Lizz Winstead Maddow on Air America the shipment Unfiltered until it was discontinued in March 2005. Barely two weeks later, she received her own two -hour program, the. Named after her Rachel Maddow Show In March 2008, the broadcasting system has been temporarily extended to a period of three hours before it returned in September 2008 to its former two-hour form. The broadcast is sent from 18 bis 20 clock clock local time in New York.
In June 2005, Maddow began to work ( with Tucker Carlson ) in the cable news channel MSNBC program as Gastkommentatorin for the mission Tucker. Soon after, she was hired as permanent political analyst for the broadcast Race for the White House with David Gregory. She also was hired as a commentator for various special broadcasts that aired the MSNBC to accompany the presidential election campaign 2007/2008, and for the mission Countdown with Keith Olbermann ( Keith Olbermann ), a mixture of reportage and personal comment. In the course of 2008 Maddow took several times for the vacationing Olbermanns as moderator of his mission. This was their first mission as host of a prime-time broadcast dar.
Due to the great popularity that was able to record Maddow as representative Olbermanns for themselves, MSNBC announced on 19 August 2008 at her moderating its own nightly show personality transfer. This program, which was called The Rachel Maddow Show, was first broadcast on 8 September 2008 on the transmission position 21 clock eastern time and replaced the old show for this time slot Verdict with Dan Abrams. The program is currently, according to Olbermanns program that pro rata basis the second largest program in the program of MSNBC and how these also available online via the station's website worldwide. Politically committed Maddow to the Democratic Party, whose political program and management staff they strongly supported in the 2008 presidential campaign in her show and recommended as the better alternative to the Republicans for the future leaders of America.
Maddow lives with her partner Susan Mikula in Manhattan and western Massachusetts. The magazine took it out on its list of the 100 homosexual men and women who have revived America last year. In addition, she was awarded the Prize of the Lesbian / Bi Woman of the Year.