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Full Name Hallie Marie Jackson Television NBC Nightly NewsMSNBC Live Spouse(s) Doug Hitchner (m. 2011) Similar Katy Tur, Kasie Hunt, Kristen Welker, Chris Jansing, Stephanie Ruhle Profiles | ||
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Hallie Marie Jackson (born April 29, 1984) is a White House correspondent for NBC News, an anchor for its cable division, MSNBC and a fill-in anchor for Today. She has worked in Salisbury, Maryland; Dover, Delaware; Hartford, Connecticut; New Haven, Connecticut; and Baltimore, Maryland before joining NBC News in 2014.
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Private life and education
Jackson was born on April 29, 1984, in Yardley, Pennsylvania, where she grew up and graduated in 2002 at Pennsbury High School. In 2006, Jackson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. degree in political science.
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. 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, 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 White House correspondent, while also stating that she would transition time slots and anchor MSNBC's 10:00 a.m. hour.
