| Hallie Jackson | |
| Birth Name: | Hallie Marie Jackson[1] |
| Birth Date: | April 29, 1984 |
| Birth Place: | Yardley, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Johns Hopkins University (BA) |
| Partner: | Frank Thorp |
| Children: | 1 |
| Employer: | NBC News |
| Television: | NBC Nightly News Hallie Jackson NOW |
| Honors: | Phi Beta Kappa |
Hallie Marie Jackson (born April 29, 1984) is an American reporter and network anchor. She is the Senior Washington Correspondent for NBC News, an anchor for NBC News Now, and the anchor of the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News. She is also a substitute anchor for Today, Saturday Today, Sunday Today With Willie Geist, and NBC Nightly News. She worked in Salisbury, Maryland; Dover, Delaware; Hartford, Connecticut; New Haven, Connecticut; and Baltimore, Maryland, before joining NBC News in 2014.
Jackson was born on April 29, 1984,[2] in Yardley, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Heidi and David Jackson.[3] In 2002, she graduated from Pennsbury High School.[4] In 2006, Jackson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. degree in political science.[5] As an undergraduate at JHU, she joined Phi Mu sorority.
Jackson started her journalism career at WBOC-TV, in Salisbury, Maryland and Dover, Delaware in 2006 until her departure for WFSB, in Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut, during 2008.[6] Her career led to Hearst Corporation in 2012, where she reported for their 26 stations from Washington, D.C. In 2014, Jackson became a reporter and journalist for NBC News,[5] for which she covered the Ted Cruz presidential campaign for the network as their embedded reporter. In 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.[7] On September 20, 2021, Jackson moved to the 3 p.m. hour of MSNBC Live. On November 17, 2021, Jackson began hosting Hallie Jackson NOW on NBC News' streaming channel, NBC News NOW, which streams Mondays through Fridays at 5 p.m. ET.[8] Her streaming show expanded to two hours in March 2023.
On May 27, 2020, Jackson was invited to and gave special remarks at her alma mater Johns Hopkins University's 2020 commencement ceremony.[9] Other notable guest speakers during the virtual ceremony included Reddit co-founder and commencement speaker Alexis Ohanian, philanthropist and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a leading member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and senior class president Pavan Patel.[10]
Jackson and her partner Frank Thorp, a producer and off-air reporter for NBC News, announced the birth of their first child, a daughter, on March 9, 2020.[11]