Jawn Murray Biography
Jawn Murray is an American TV commentator, pop culture expert, media personality, and social media influencer based in Washington, DC. He is best known for hosting TV shows for Travel Channel, EPIX, and NFL Network, as well as appearing on cable news channels such as CNN, HLN, and MSNBC. Ebony magazine named him one of the industry’s “30 on the Rise,” and the NAACP named him one of the “40 Power Players Under 40.”
He went to Norfolk State University and majored in Mass Communications.
Jawn Murray Age
He is 45 years old as of 21 April 2022. He was born on 21 April 1977 in Warrenton, Virginia, United States.
Jawn MurrayMarriage – Partner
He is said to be single.
Jawn Murray Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
Jawn Murray Career
He then interned at WPGC 95.5 FM in Washington, DC, which launched his professional career in the entertainment industry. Mid-host Michel Wright hired Murray as an intern to research stories for her on-air entertainment news segment because she recognized his passion for celebrity news and pop culture.
Murray launched his own career as an entertainment news reporter from Washington, DC, at the height of the dot-com boom, first with an email newsletter called Garek News before landing a weekly column in the Electronic Urban Report radio newswire and online site, now known as EURweb.com.
His writing career would flourish further with a widely popular entertainment column called BV Buzz, which he wrote for AOL’s Black Voices channel for seven years. Murray landed an additional job as a vacation-relief columnist for the New York Daily News, where he would fill in for the famous “Rush & Molloy” columnists. He also wrote over 20 magazine cover stories for publications such as Black Elegance, Savoy, Smooth, and Jewel.
In September 2006, he also became an on-air personality on the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show, making him one of the youngest contributors to the Urban Adult Contemporary radio program.
Murray also began contributing segments for television, first appearing on an E! Entertainment show called “Love Chain.” He went on to appear as a subject matter expert on Court TV and HLN, as well as providing commentary on VH1’s The Fabulous Life of… and ETrue !’s Hollywood Story, Hollywood Wives’ Tales, and Relatively Famous. Murray became a regular expert on the Life After bio series on TV One in 2010. He appeared in episodes about Ruben Studdard, Elise Neal, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Karrine Steffans, and Mark Curry, among others.
Murray announced the launch of a digital talent competition for EMI Gospel on January 13, 2011, while hosting a showcase for EMI Gospel in Nashville, Tennessee, during the Stellar Awards weekend. Jawn Murray presents Untapped was the compilation’s title, and Murray served as its executive producer.
Later that year, in 2011, he announced his departure from AOL Black Voices as a result of the company’s merger with The Huffington Post, as well as his departure from the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Murray felt he had neglected his first love, television, and wanted to focus his interests on television opportunities.
By late 2011, the media personality had established himself as a regular on both HLN and CNN. During the week of Whitney Houston’s death in 2012, Murray appeared as a subject matter expert on 21 TV network shows, including NBC’s Today and multiple series on CNN, HLN, BBC, MSNBC, and Fox News.Murray provided live commentary for the first episode of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show on the day of Houston’s funeral.
Murray co-hosted ABC’s The View in April 2014, just two weeks before the show’s creator, Barbara Walters, announced her retirement. On live TV during the episode, Walters turned to him and said, “I love your way with words.” He later appeared as a panelist on other talk shows such as The Meredith Vieira Show and The Wendy Williams Show, and he taped several episodes of the TV One series Unsung.
He has also hosted shows for the Travel Channel (Night Crawl New York with Jawn Murray and The Maryland Renaissance Festival), Epix (Top Five: A Red Carpet Special), and the NFL Network (NFL Fan Pass: Phoenix.)Murray is a social media enthusiast influencer who, according to The Huffington Post, is responsible for “catapulting” Kim Kardashian’s stardom with a story he wrote for AOL Black Voices in 2006. Grey Goose named him one of their 2010 “Archetype 25” honorees – 25 people who have carved out a niche for themselves in the world! Don Julio Tequila named him one of the 12 most powerful men in Washington, DC.
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