Prior to the Tuesday night interview, NBC said Jackson had already had “exclusive access during the Vice President’s campaign stops in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.”
she had her “dream job” in covering the White House. Now she is set to conduct one of the most consequential interviews of the 2024 campaign.
A Lower Makefield, Pennsylvania, native and Johns Hopkins University graduate, Jackson first joined NBC News at their Los Angeles bureau in 2014 after stints at local Hearst networks throughout the Northeast. Then-head of worldwide newsgathering David Verdi described her as a “dynamic addition” in a note to staff, praising her work as both an on-air reporter and her experience on digital platforms—a salient observation given her eventual role as the face of NBC’s streaming platform.
As Jackson’s fame rose in covering the campaign, so did her responsibilities. She hosted the 1 p.m. hour of MSNBC‘s news block in the final months before the 2016 election, and after Donald Trump won, the Peacock bosses named her NBC’s chief White House correspondentin 2017 she refused to tolerate then-Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s curtness—and false claims— at White House press briefings.
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