The top legal reporter for MSNBC and host of The Beat with Ari Melber, Ari Naftali Melber (born March 31, 1980) is an American lawyer and Emmy-winning journalist.
In 2023, “The Beat” earned the greatest ratings of any program on MSNBC or CNN, “outranking everything else on MSNBC — the first time in the network’s 27 years that a show outside the prime-time window took top honors,” according to the New York Times.
For viewers under the age of 55 (referred to as “demo”), “The Beat’s” ratings in 2023 were 46% higher than the previous year.
“The Beat” was performing better against Fox News than “any other show before it,” surpassing “CNN in total viewers.”
Meet Ari Melber parents Daniel M. Melber & Barbara D. Melber
Ari Naftali Melber was born on March 31, 1980, in Seattle, Washington, U.S., to Barbara and Daniel Melber.
He is a European-born Jew. His grandparents had survived the “Holocaust” against Jews during the Second World War. Through some kind of immigration, they got to Seattle, Washington.
