Chris Jansing Biography
Chris Jansing is a television news correspondent from the United States. She currently works for NBC News as a senior national correspondent for the network’s cable division, MSNBC, and as a breaking news anchor for the channel alongside Brian Williams. From 2014 to January 20, 2017, Jansing was the senior White House correspondent for NBC News. She hosted Jansing and Company on MSNBC from 2010 to 2014.
How old is Chris Jansing? – Age
She is 65 years old as of 30 January 2022. She was born in 1957 in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, United States. Her real name is Christine Ann Kapostasy-Jansing.
Where did Chris Jansing go to college? – Family
She was born in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, to a Roman Catholic family as the youngest of 12 children to Joseph and Tilly Kapostasy. Her ancestors are Hungarian and Slovak. Jansing, who was originally a political science major, changed her major to broadcast journalism after working for the college radio station. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Otterbein College in 1978.
Is Chris Jansen from MSNBC married? – Wife
She married Robert Jansing, a chemist who ran an analytical chemistry laboratory, in 1982, and when she joined NBC in 1998, she began using her married name. Following that, the couple divorced.
Chris Jansing Career
She worked as an intern at a cable station in Columbus, Ohio, after which she accepted a job for a brief period at radio station WIPS in Ticonderoga, New York. She then accepted a position as a general assignment reporter for Albany, New York-based WNYT television, where she quickly rose to become the weekend anchor and then the weekly co-anchor.
She worked for WNYT for 17 years. In 1997, she received a New York Emmy Award for her coverage of the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. Jansing joined NBC News in June 1998, at which point she began to use her surname Jansing professionally rather than her maiden name Kapostasy, which she had previously used.
She has since anchored and reported for MSNBC, as well as served as a substitute anchor for The Today Show and NBC Nightly News on Sunday. She moved to Los Angeles in 2008 and worked as a field reporter for two years before returning to anchor in 2010. Chris Jansing previously hosted Jansing and Company on MSNBC weekdays at 10 a.m., with Richard Lui serving as a correspondent and substitute anchor. Jansing left the show on June 13, 2014, to become NBC’s Senior White House Correspondent.
Jansing was named a senior national correspondent for MSNBC on June 1, 2017. Jansing will continue to anchor the network’s breaking news coverage alongside Brian Williams, as well as provide coverage from the White House and Capitol Hill, as part of the role.
Chris Jansing Salary
She earns an annual salary of $1 million.
Chris Jansing Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.