Hallie Jackson

  Hallie Marie Jackson (born April 29, 1984) is Senior Washington correspondent for NBC News, an anchor for both its cable and streaming divisions, MSNBC and NBC News Now, 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 April 29, 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.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 in 2012 to Hearst Corporation, where she reported for their 26 stations from Washington, D.C. In 2014, Jackson became a reporter and journalist for NBC News,for which 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's daytime coverage platform.