Hallie Marie Jackson is an anchor for NBC News and a Senior Washington correspondent.
She is an anchor for NBC News’s cable and streaming divisions, MSNBC and NBC News Now. She is also a fill-in and a substitute anchor for shows such as Today, Sunday Today with Willie Geist, and NBC Nightly News.
She joined NBC News in 2014 and has been associated with the network since then. Before that, she worked in places such as Salisbury, Dover, Hartford, New Haven, and Baltimore.
She was born on April 29, 1984, in Yardley, Pennsylvania, to Heidi and David Jackson. She completed her high school studies at Pennsbury High School in 2002 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 2006 from Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science.
She was invited to give special remarks at John Hopkins University’s 2020 virtual commencement ceremony. Other notable guests included Reddit co-founder and commencement speaker Alexis Ohanian, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, philanthropist and former NY City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and senior class president Pavan Patel.
Meet Hallie Jackson’s Husband, Frank Thorp
Hallie Jackson is a Washington correspondent whose husband is Frank Thorp, a producer and off-air reporter for NBC News.
It is unclear whether the couple is officially married, but they live together in Washington, D.C., with their beautiful daughter and pet dog.
Frank Thorp was born in May 1984 and is currently 38 years old, the same as his partner Hallie Jackson. He studied at West Virginia University and graduated with a degree in 2007.
He also went as an international student overseas for higher studies. He studied Psychology at Aalborg University in Denmark and Community Development at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
He is a photographer who often shoots films and digitals when he is not working for NBC News. His picture collections can be viewed on his Instagram profile, mainly his b/w photography.
He has been associated with NBC News for almost two decades. He joined the network in 2004 as an intern at the Today’s Show. He then worked as a reporter for NBC4 and Served as the Executive Producer for a thirty-minute intern newscast named “NBC4 – The Intern Edition”.
As a researcher at Today Show at NBC News, Thorp went to Cape Town, South Africa, and filmed “Where in the World is Matt Lauer? He was also a radio reporter for WWVU Radio and was awarded the 2006 West Virginia Associated Press Association’s Award for Best Reporter in West Virginia.
After working as a desk assistant and researcher at NBC News, Thorp became the associate producer of The Early Show on CBS News. As a producer, he relocated to Haiti and reported on future and current events in Haiti to NBC News offices in Atlanta and New York City.
He is a producer and off-air reporter who primarily focuses on the House of Representatives and the United States Senate for NBC News. He worked on the leading network-wide coverage of President Trump’s two impeachment trials and the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Hallie Jackson Relationship History
Before joining with current partner Frank Throp, Hallie Jackson married Doug Hitchner. They wed in 2011 but separated a couple of years later due to undisclosed reasons.
The Senior Washington Correspondent and her first husband, Hitchner, had no children. It is unclear whether the two officially divorced, but one thing is clear, their marriage did not last long, and they went their separate paths.
Hallie and her current partner Frank were acquitted with each other from their time at NBC News, where the former joined in 2014, and the latter had been working since 2004. Unfortunately, they fell for each other after meeting, resulting in the end of Hallie’s marriage with Hitchner and the beginning of her relationship with Thorp.
The 38-year-old’s relationship history before her marriage with Hitchner has not been mentioned. Likewise, her current partner Frank Thorp’s relationship history is also unavailable on the internet.
Hallie Jackson Children
Hallie Jackson has a daughter with her partner Frank Thorp. The chief Washington Correspondent for NBC News announced the birth of her first child on March 9, 2020.
The couple named their daughter Monroe “Ro” Jackson Thorp in honor of Hallie’s great-grandfather. The baby, due in early April but arrived a few weeks early, was born 5-pound, 9-ounce.
The family of three lives happily in Washington, D.C., and often goes on vacation together. Thorp has been an excellent dad for little Monroe, as seen on the social media pictures uploaded by Hallie.
Hallie Jackson is available on Instagram as @hallie_gram and has amassed 85K followers, and on Twitter, she has 544K followers on her profile, @HallieJackson. Additionally, her partner Frank Thorp has 26K followers on his Instagram, @frankthorpv.