CAMDEN COUNTY COLLEGE ALUMNUS TRYMAINE LEE MSNBC REPORTER
Monday, July 25, 2016
(July 21, 2016) - You may have seen Camden County College alumnus, Trymaine Lee, on TV lately, as he reports on 
social justice issues and the impact of politics and policy on people for MSNBC. But he is also a local resident who started at CCC. “When I graduated from Camden County College . . .I was hungry and ambitious,” said the Chesilhurst native, who completed his associate’s degree at CCC in 2000. “What I wanted more than anything else was to go out there in the world and make my family and all of the people who had walked with me on this journey proud. I wanted to go out there and shine for all of the little towns in Camden County that no one had ever heard of but us.”
After earning his bachelor’s degree from Rowan University in 2003, Lee worked at the Philadelphia Daily News, the Philadelphia Tribune and The Trentonian. He was employed at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005. He was among the staffers who volunteered to remain on the job, risking their own safety, to report on the storm and its aftermath.
Lee and his colleagues were recognized with Pulitzer Prizes in two categories. Individually, he received an Emerging Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists and an Alumnus of Distinction Award from Rowan University.
Since 2006, Lee has been a reporter with The New York Times. There, he was among the reporters who contributed to a story on the scandal that led to the resignation of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009. Lee went on to write for the Huffington Post and then MSNBC as a national reporter for its digital unit.
Lee won the Camden County College Outstanding Alumni Award in 2010.
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