Ari Melber
Anchor, The Beat with Ari Melber Weeknights at 6pm ET & Chief Legal Correspondent, MSNBC
Ari Melber
Anchor, The Beat with Ari Melber Weeknights at 6pm ET & Chief Legal Correspondent, MSNBC
Biography
Ari Melber is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, news anchor, writer and attorney. He anchors The Beat with Ari Melber on MSNBC, which draws the largest audience for any 6pm show in MSNBC’s history, and serves as the network’s Chief Legal Correspondent, reporting across all platforms, including MSNBC, NBC News, The Today Show and NBC Nightly News. Melber received a 2016 Emmy Award for his reporting on the Supreme Court.
On The Beat, Melber reports on news, politics, law and culture, and interviews a deliberately wide range of guests. The show features in-depth interviews with people ranging from newsmakers, like Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, to Trump administration figures Jay Sekulow, Stephen Bannon and Joe Arpaio, to prominent legal experts, such as Eric Holder and Ken Starr, to cultural voices like Alice Walker, Dave Chappelle, Annie Lennox and 50 Cent.
New York Times contributor Peter Wehner credits Melber as “an outstanding interviewer, among the best on television,” while The Detroit Free Press named The Beat to its list of the “best” new TV shows, noting a focus on “untangling” the facts rather than the “partisan posturing of so many” shows. The Hollywood Reporter notes The Beat quickly established itself as a “success” since launching in 2017, adding “there are few cable news hosts more perfectly suited” to covering the legal and political challenges of the Trump era.
As a writer, Melber reported on politics as a national correspondent for The Nation and wrote columns for Reuters and Politico. His articles and essays have also been published by the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Baltimore Sun and The New York Daily News.
Melber previously practiced law in New York, and received a J.D. from Cornell Law School, where he was an editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Speaker Videos
Ari Melber on Rudy Giuliani's Apartment Raid and the Derek Chauvin Trial
Ari Melber Breaks Down Trump's Criminal Cases and His Authoritarian Plans
Ari Melber — The January 6 Report - with John P. Flannery — at Sixth & I
Ari Melber in the Big Interview
Ari Melber Names Drake's Classic Albums, Talks Biden Agenda, Police Reform + TV Show Milestone
Watch The Beat with Ari Melber Highlights: July 20
Watch The Beat with Ari Melber Highlights: June 22
Speech Topics
Decision 2024: Analyzing the Impact of the Election on America's Future
Our upcoming national election will be a pivotal moment in American history, and its ramifications will shape our political landscape for years to come. In this talk, Political Analyst Ari Melber dives into the electoral landscape, from what it means for everything from women’s rights to climate change to healthcare to economic and cultural issues to how a second Trump term or the election of Kamala Harris will affect us all. The choices we make today will shape our future. Ari will keep you informed by unpacking the outcomes and the impact on America’s future.