- Chris Hayes is the host of the MSNBC show "All in with Chris Hayes."
- Born and raised in The Bronx, New York, Hayes dreamed of a life in the theater. Instead, he began to write and report when he moved to Chicago after graduating college.
- By 28, he was the Washington editor of The Nation.
- He transitioned from print to television and has since hosted two shows and won several Emmys. But it hasn't all been a smooth run.
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Chris Hayes might be the most earnest news anchor in America.
Bookish and serious, he sometimes lacks the charm or charisma of his competitors. He's been described by numerous news organizations as "an intellectual."
For years, Hayes had lower ratings than his competitors in the same much-coveted 8 p.m. timeslot, struggling to compete with rival anchors Anderson Cooper and the now-disgraced Bill O'Reilly.
But he's hung in there. He's an unlikely success at MSNBC, coming from the relatively small world of left-wing magazines as an editor of The Nation and a socialist newspaper in Chicago before that. He transitioned from print to television thanks, in part, to a shoulder tap by MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow.
He told the Chicago Tribune that his first job on television simply fell into his lap. "One of many, many, many lucky and fortunate breaks to which I've been subject," he said in 2011. But it hasn't all been luck.
Here's his life so far.