Hallie Jackson

Hallie Jackson
Born Hallie Marie Jackson[1]
(1984-04-29) April 29, 1984
Yardley, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality United States of America
Education B.A., Johns Hopkins University, political science
Occupation Correspondent
Employer NBC News
Television

NBC Nightly News
"Today Show"
Morning Joe
Hardball with Chris Matthews

"MSNBC"
Spouse(s) Doug Hitchner (m. 2011)
Honours Phi Beta Kappa

Hallie Marie Jackson (born April 29, 1984) is a correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for its cable division, MSNBC. She has 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,[3] in Yardley, Pennsylvania, where she grew up and graduated in 2002 at Pennsbury High School.[4] In 2006, Jackson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. degree in political science.[5] Jackson became engaged to her college boyfriend Doug Hitchner in May 2010, and the couple was subsequently married in the fall of 2011 in a formal ceremony in Perkasie, Pennsylvania in Bucks County. [6][7]

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.[8] 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,[5] 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.

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. Intelius. "Hallie Jackson in Pennsylvania". Intelius. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  4. "msnbc-broadcasts-from-washington-crossing-park". Newton PA. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  5. 1 2 Knox, Merrill (July 15, 2014). "Hallie Jackson Joins NBC News". Adweek. Retrieved April 5, 2016.
  6. "Engaged in 2010, Why Has Hallie Jackson Kept Her Married Life a Secret? Husband? Plus, Her Career Portfolio". LIVERAMPUP. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  7. "Engaged in 2010 and married a year later, NBC's Hallie Jackson and her husband Doug a happy family". FrostSnow. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
  8. Knox, Merrill (April 26, 2012). "WFSB Anchor Hallie Jackson Joining Hearst's Washington Bureau". Adweek. Retrieved April 5, 2016.

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