ARI MELBER is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, evening news achor, writer, and attorney. He anchors The Beat with Ari Melber on MSNBC, serves as the network's chief legal correspondent, and is a legal analyst for NBC News. Melber received a 2016 Emmy Award for his reporting on the Supreme Court and was nominated for a 2020 Emmy for an "Outstanding Live Interview, " featuring four witnesses in the Mueller probe.
He has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Politico, and other publications. Melber received a JD from Cornell Law School, where he was an editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. He previously practiced First Amendment law and is a member of the New York Bar.