Joshua Johnson plays anchorman Dwight Richmond on the satirical Onion News Network. His portrayal helped The Onion win a 2025 Webby Award for Comedy. Joshua Johnson has spent more than 20 years in journalism, helping people see each other despite their differences. He was the founding host of NPR’s national talk show 1A, which grew to a weekly audience of four million listeners during his three years on-air. MSNBC later recruited him to anchor The Week with Joshua Johnson, where he created rare spaces for audience interaction in network news, before becoming the anchor of NOW Tonight, a primetime nightly newscast. His NBC News projects included specials for Black History Month, a live broadcast from New York’s Stonewall Inn for LGBTQ Pride Month, and a focus group of small business owners reacting to President Biden’s 2022 State of the Union Address.

Earlier in his career, Johnson reported and anchored at at San Francisco’s KQED, and at South Florida’s WLRN in partnership with The Miami Herald. He also created The Night Light with Joshua Johnson, an independent project about democracy, culture, and connection. Johnson holds bachelor’s degrees in Broadcasting and Theater Arts from the University of Miami and now lives in Chicago.

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