Willie Geist
William " Willie" Russell Spirit ( May 3, 1975 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American television host. He is best known as the co- host of the program Morning Joe.
Life and work
Willie spirit was born in 1975 as the son of author and journalist Bill Geist and social worker Jody spirit. His younger sister is the producer Libby spirit, who was honored for her work, among others, the prestigious Peabody Award.
After visiting the Ridgewood High School, where he excelled as a football and basketball player, studied spirit at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he worked as editor of the student newspaper, The Vanderbilt Hustler alongside their studies.
In the late 1990s began spirit as an editor and producer for CNN Sports Illustrated, a spade sender of the round -the-clock sports programs radiates to work. For this commitment, engagement finally revealed as a producer and reporter for CNN Sports. In this capacity, he reported, among other things, the Super Bowl and the Masters tournament. 2004 changed mind as a writer and producer on the cable channel Fox Sports Net, where he worked on the show I, Max ( Moderator: Max Kellerman ) cooperated.
In April 2005, Spirit for the news channel MSNBC began to work: As a producer, he initially managed the show, The Situation with Tucker Carlson ( Moderator: Tucker Carlson ), which also chairing a humorous segment ( The Cutting Room Floor), in which he in a kind of spoken commentary was his personal view on current political events of the best was to be seen at the end of the show before the camera.
End of April 2007 was the spirit of the program Morning Joe, the second most successful pro rata basis information broadcast in the American breakfast television ( according to Fox and Friends on Fox News), as assigned to one of three co- presenters. In addition to Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, he presents on weekdays from 6.00 bis 9.00 clock Et is an mix of news reports, interviews and debates with guests and segments from the fields of entertainment and pop culture.
In July 2009, Spirit received - in addition to his job as co-host of Morning Joe - his own mission, the thirty minute show Way Too Early with Willie spirit that is around 5:30 to 6:00 ET immediately before Morning Joe, broadcast. There is also a titled Zeitgeist satirical video blog can be seen under the slogan "All the News You Can not Use " on MSNBC.com.
Spirit is married since May 24, 2003 Christina Sharkey, with whom he has two children: daughter Lucie Joy Geist ( born 14 June 2007) and the son of George William Geist ( born July 8, 2009).