Trymaine D Lee was born on September 20,1978 and is an American journalist.
17 Facts About Trymaine Lee
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Trymaine Lee shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of Hurricane Katrina as part of a team at The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.
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From 2006 to 2010, Lee wrote for The New York Times and from early 2011 to November 2012 he was a senior reporter at The Huffington Post.
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Since then Trymaine Lee has been a national reporter for MSNBC, where he writes for the network's digital arm, and hosts the podcast Into America.
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Trymaine Lee began his career reporting on police and crime at the Philadelphia Tribune and the Trentonian of Trenton, New Jersey.
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Trymaine Lee had arrived in New Orleans only four months before.
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From 2006 to 2010, Trymaine Lee was a staff reporter for The New York Times, where he primarily covered Harlem.
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In March 2011, Trymaine Lee was hired to cover "national issues that impact the black community" for Huffington Post's Black Voices.
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Trymaine Lee did not learn of Trayvon Martin until more than a week after the teenager's death, but he was one of the first national reporters to cover the story, for Huffington Post's Black Voices on March 8,2012.
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Trymaine Lee continued filing stories on the case nearly every day that month.
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In November 2012, Trymaine Lee joined MSNBC as a national reporter for its digital unit, reporting on social justice issues and the impact of politics and policy on everyday people.
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Trymaine Lee described his move to MSNBC as a chance to "flex different muscles" as a journalist.
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In February 2020, Trymaine Lee began hosting the MSNBC podcast Into America.
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Trymaine Lee shared the award with three other reporters, Doug MacCash, Manuel Torres, and Mark Schleifstein.
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Trymaine Lee contributed to coverage of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal by The New York Times, which won the Breaking News Pulitzer three years later.
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In 2006, Trymaine Lee was named Emerging Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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In 2021, Trymaine Lee won "Podcast Host of the Year" at the Adweek Podcast Awards.