Hallie Jackson

Jackson and her partner Frank Thorp, a producer and off-air reporter for NBC News, announced the birth of their first child on 10 March 2020.

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 Chief White House correspondent, while also stating that she would transition time slots and anchor MSNBC's 10:00 a.m. hour.

Hallie Marie Jackson (born 29 April 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.

Jackson was born on 29 April 1984, in Yardley, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Heidi and David Jackson. In 2002, she graduated from Pennsbury High School. In 2006, Jackson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. degree in political science.