Johanna Reagan

    

Johanna Reagan
Reagan in a 2017 interview
Born	(1968-07-14) July 14, 1968 Dallas, Brazoria
Education	University of Dallas
Occupation	Broadcast journalist
Notable credit(s)	Co-host of Voice on the Streets
Political party	Royalist
Movement	Liberal conservatism
Children	2
Awards	Emmy Award

Johanna Campbell Reagan (born July 14, 1962) is a Sierran journalist and an anchorwoman for the EBN News. She is the co-host of Voice on the Street and is also the main host of Prime Time with Reagan on EBN and has been since 2012. Originally a contributor for RBS News, she left the network in 2009 and joined EBN and gained traction due to her record as one of the more notable conservative journalists while on RBS.

Throughout her career, she has covered various events that have involved Sierra such as the 2004 invasion of Syria and also covered the campaign season during the 2008 Sierran federal election. During the 2013 Sierran federal election, she supported Daniel McComb and later admitted that she left RBS to join EBN over her support for McComb and sympathies with the Royalist Party of which she's been a member of since 2003. Originally born in Dallas, Brazoria, her family moved to Sierra when she was three years old and initially lived in San Diego, Laguna before moving to San Francisco, where she resides as of 2020. As a journalist for the EBN, she gained notority for her conservative stances, criticisms of the Democratic-Republican Party of Sierra and Social Democrats of Sierra along with the Sierran Left as a whole and is credited for helping McComb rise to prominence in Sierran politics due to her coverage of him during the 2012 Royalist Party leadership election. Her support for McComb resulted in her becoming an unofficial speechwriter for him during his premiership.

Reagan would gain attention in the late 2010s for her coverage supporting Nemesis Heartwell from her victory in the 2017 Royalist Party leadership election to being a defender of her in the media during her tenure as Prime Minister. While she would defend Heartwell, she did criticize her on two occasions; her response to the Red Rock Castle crisis and her decision to launch Operation Shield of Idlib in April 2020, both of which are credited for leading to her party's historic defeat in the 2020 Sierran federal election. In July, Reagan was covering a protest held in San Francisco City during the George Floyd protests when she was attacked by some of the protestors. This incident gained her widespread attention and in November, was invited to speak at the 2020 Royalist National Convention to speak on the issue of left-wing political violence under the government of Susan Kwon.

Early life and education

Johanna Reagan was born on July 14, 1962 in the Brazorian city of Dallas. While her mother was a native-born Brazorian citizen, her father was a Sierran citizen and held duel Brazorian-Sierran citizenship. When she was three, her family moved to Sierra and settled in San Diego, the provincial capital of Laguna. She would spend much of her childhood in the city before moving to San Francisco City after her father got a real estate job in the city. After graduating high school, she would attend the University of Dallas and graduate four years later, but would spend some time living in Brazoria before moving back to Sierra for good after turning 28.

During her time in Brazoria, she would reconnect with childhood friends from Laguna who were visiting Brazoria at the time of her stay in the country with one of them, Ashley Barrett, moving in with her until they both moved back to Sierra.

EBN journalist

2012 Royalist Convention

Reagan was EBN's main reporter on the ground during the 2012 Royalist National Convention where the party's leadership election that year was completed at the convention during the first day. Reagan had been a vocal supporter of Daniel McComb, a candidate and frontrunner in the 2012 leadership election, and gave glowing coverage of the San Joaquin Member of Parliament. She famously interviewed McComb a day before he was sworn in as Leader of the Royalist Party at the end of the convention and would cover his acceptance speech after he was sworn in as the new party leader on the fourth and final day of the convention. Her coverage is credited with popularizing McComb and making him a major leading figure in the conservative movement.

Political positions

Reagan identifies as a liberal conservative stating that she holds more liberal positions on social and certain cultural issues favoring the legalization of same-sex marriage believing that government should have no say in a private matter like marriage and even supported decriminalizing cannabis, but stopped short of supporting full legalization. Reagan is conservative on economic issues supporting decreases taxes and repealing the estate tax. In 2020 she spoke out against Susan Kwon for increasing Sierra's corporate tax rate from 21% to 35% calling it "an attack on economic success in Sierra".

Social issues

Reagan identifies as a "quasi-social liberal" supporting the legalization of same-sex marriage in Sierra believing that marriage is a personal matter and that neither the federal government nor any provincial government should be allowed to determine what kinds of marriages are legal and illegal. She has also voiced support towards decriminalizing cannabis and vapes and has praised Clark's lax laws in regards to the consumption of alcohol and other narcotics calling it a model for Sierra's narcotic laws, which she's accused of being outdated.