Hallie Jackson

Hallie Jackson
Jackson reporting during an anti-Trump protest at Trump Tower in 2016
Born Hallie Marie Jackson[1]
(1984-04-29) April 29, 1984
Yardley, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality American
Education B.A., Johns Hopkins University, political science
Occupation Correspondent
Employer NBC News (2014-present)
Television

NBC Nightly News

MSNBC Live
Honors Phi Beta Kappa

Hallie Marie Jackson (born April 29, 1984) is Chief White House correspondent for NBC News, an anchor for its cable division, MSNBC, and a fill-in anchor for Today. She worked in Salisbury, Maryland; Dover, Delaware; Hartford, Connecticut; New Haven, Connecticut; and Baltimore, Maryland before joining NBC News in 2014.

Private life and education

Jackson was born on April 29,[2] 1984, in Yardley, Pennsylvania, where she grew up and graduated in 2002 at Pennsbury High School.[3] In 2006, Jackson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. degree in political science.[4].

Career

She started her journalism career at WBOC-TV in the towns of Salisbury, Maryland and Dover, Delaware, in 2006, until her departure for WFSB in the cities of Hartford, Connecticut and New Haven, Connecticut during 2008.[5] Her career led her to Hearst Corporation in 2012, where she reported for their 26 stations from Washington, D.C.. Jackson became an NBC News reporter and journalist in 2014,[4] where she covered the Ted Cruz presidential campaign for the network as their embedded reporter. In late summer 2016 Jackson began anchoring the 1 P.M. ET edition of MSNBC Live, NBC News' daytime coverage platform. In January 2017, NBC named Jackson as its Chief White House correspondent, while also stating that she would transition time slots and anchor MSNBC's 10:00 a.m. hour.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Phi Beta Kappa to Induct New Members". The JHU Gazette. May 1, 2006. Retrieved June 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) (April 29, 2014). "Thanks for all the birthday wishes! Out contemplating the unending passage of time with some Paleozoic-era rocks. :)". Twitter. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ "msnbc-broadcasts-from-washington-crossing-park". Newton PA. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  4. 1 2 Knox, Merrill (July 15, 2014). "Hallie Jackson Joins NBC News". Adweek. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ Knox, Merrill (April 26, 2012). "WFSB Anchor Hallie Jackson Joining Hearst's Washington Bureau". Adweek. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ariens, Chris (January 18, 2017). "NBC Names Hallie Jackson White House Correspondent, Kasie Hunt to Capitol Hill". Adweek. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
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