User:Annm34/Tiffany Cross

Early life and education[edit]
Cross was born in Ohio. While growing up she moved between Cleveland, Ohio and Atlanta, Georgia. When she was a teenager, she wanted to be the "brown Murphy Brown". During this time she was also a huge fan of Oprah and has claimed to never miss an episode of her show. Growing up Tiffany's mother would often take her to the public library, which is how Tiffany found a love for reading and writing. She was on her own once she turned 16, and had to pay her own College tuition.

She attended Clark Atlanta University where she majored in Mass Communications with an emphasis on radio, television, and film. Tiffany has since moved to Washington D.C.

Career[edit]
Tiffany had spent time perusing the journalism field since she was 14. Tiffany has spent over 20 years working with media and politics. Over Tiffany's media career she has coved Elections, Administrations, Congress, and Capitol Hill. During her time she has made her own News Platform, covered local, federal, and state campaigns. Tiffany's first journalism job was as a reporter at an Atlanta radio station. Eventually, she worked for CNN as an associate producer in the early 2000s. When starting at CNN she worked any shift they would let her work, holidays and nights included. She was also the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for BET Networks. She later became a resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics. Cross has also made regular appearances on MSNBC, most notably on AM Joy with Joy Reid. Tiffany has also served as the managing editor of The Beat DC.

In July 2020, her book Say It Louder: Black Voters, Our Voices, and the Shaping of American Democracy was published. That same month, Joy Reid's new weekday show, The ReidOut, started, and Cross became one of a handful of rotating guest hosts of AM Joy. As of August, Cross, Jonathan Capehart and Zerlina Maxwell were being considered for the weekend slot by MSNBC. In December, Cross was named host of a new two-hour show on MSNBC, Cross Connection (often stylized as Crosstalk), replacing Reid's AM Joy Saturday slot, with Capehart taking the Sunday slot and Maxwell hosting her own show on NBC Peacock. This show made Tiffany become the first black women to host a prime-time show that aired on cable news.

On the October 19, 2022 edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson's monologue included clips of on-air statements by Cross in which she made several racist anti-white statements.

Relationships
Over the years Tiffany has made many valuable relationships, including becoming friends with Angela Rye. At the start of her career she worked for Bob Novak, a columnist and conservative political commentor. Tiffany has also worked with Wolf Blitzer while he was hosting a Sunday morning political show. During her early career in D.C. Tiffany would often catch rides to work on Sunday mornings with Tracey Webb, a producer.