Jonathan Lemire

Lemire grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. He graduated from Central Catholic High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he was a record-setting runner for the school's track and field team, and earned a bachelor's degree in history from Columbia University in 2001.[3][4]

At Columbia, he wrote for the student newspaper, Columbia Daily Spectator,[5] and later interned at the New York Daily News in 2001, "I was told that I would never be hired but I could stay on as an intern for another few months."[6] A week later, the September 11 attacks occurred, he remained an intern, and "was eventually brought on staff".[6][7] Lemire worked there for more than a decade.[8]

In 2013, Lemire joined the Associated Press,[9][10] where he covered New York City politics as well as Donald Trump and Joe Biden's administrations.[11] He gained media attention for his news conference question, to Trump about Russia's Vladimir Putin at their July 2018 Helsinki summit, "Who do you believe, Putin or U.S. intelligence?"[12][13][14][15] Lemire has also been a longtime political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News.[16]

In October 2021, MSNBC named Lemire as the new host of its early morning news show Way Too Early, taking over full-time reporting duties from Kasie Hunt.[17] He was also named White House bureau chief of Politico and began his duties in November 2021.[18]

• The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020. Flatiron Books. 26 July 2022. ISBN 978-1-250-81963-5.[19][20][21][22]

In 2008, Lemire married fellow journalist Carrie Melago, who is a managing editor of Chalkbeat.[23][24][25] They met while they were both working at The Daily News. The couple has two children.[6]