Errin Haines
Errin Haines
Errin Haines is an award-winning political reporter covering the 2020 election. She is the Founder and Editor at Large of The 19th, a nonprofit, newsroom covering the intersection of women, politics and policy, and an MSNBC Contributor. Haines was also a Fall 2019 Ferris Professor at Princeton University. [3] She has over two decades of experience as a journalist. As a member of the Associated Press’s 2020 politics team, she covered the intersection of race and the U.S. presidential election. [13]
Career
Errin began her career at the Atlanta Daily World, the city’s oldest continuously-published black newspaper.
“A lot of the work I did was around the killings of unarmed Black people by the police and by vigilantes,” she says.
“And when I moved on from that job, I thought I had moved on from that work.
I certainly didn’t think I would be doing this work in the midst of a pandemic.
But here we are.”[1]
Her work at the 19th covers political news related to women-centric stories.
She was previously a national writer working at the Associated Press's on race and ethnicity, Errin focused on the intersection of race, politics, and culture — including civil and voting rights, the black electorate, and the emerging modern protest movement.
Errin has also written for The Washington Post, Orlando Sentinel, and Los Angeles Times. Errin joined The Washington Post as a Virginia statehouse reporter in September 2012, where she has covered the Virginia U.S.
Senate race, the 2013 General Assembly and the nationally-watched 2013 Virginia gubernatorial contest.
Prior to joining The Post, Errin worked for seven years at The Associated Press’ Atlanta bureau, covering race and Southern politics.
She was also a Fall 2019 Ferris Professor at Princeton University, teaching a class on black women and the 2020 election.
In November 2020, Haines was awarded the 2020 Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence, a prize that honors journalists who have reported stories that are of significant importance or had a significant impact on some aspect of Black life in America.[16]
Awards
2020 Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence winner.[16]
Press Club’s Award of Excellence winner in the Large Print Category, 2010.
2008 Pulitzer nominee for her coverage of that year’s presidential campaign.
2006 National Association of Black Journalists Emerging Journalist of the Year.
She has also won several awards from the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists (AABJ) and more.
Personal
Education
She graduated from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Ga. She is also an alumna of the Tribune/METPRO fellowship.