{"id":26652,"date":"2020-08-24T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=26652"},"modified":"2020-08-24T13:49:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T18:49:38","slug":"meagan-fitzgerald-joins-nbc-news-chicago-bureau-correspondent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/08\/24\/meagan-fitzgerald-joins-nbc-news-chicago-bureau-correspondent\/","title":{"rendered":"Meagan Fitzgerald joins NBC News Chicago bureau as correspondent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Meagan Fitzgerald<\/p><\/div>\n

Meagan Fitzgerald, weekend morning news anchor at the NBC-owned station in Washington, D.C., has been named Chicago-based correspondent for NBC News <\/a>and MSNBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cA heartfelt and sincere honor,\u201d Fitzgerald tweeted<\/a> today shortly after her hiring was announced by David Verdi,\u00a0 NBC News senior vice president of worldwide news gathering. \u201cI\u2019m very excited and grateful to join this team!\u201d<\/p>\n

A graduate of Howard University, Fitzgerald joined NBC-owned WRC in Washington as a reporter and fill-in anchor in 2015. She was promoted to weekend morning anchor in 2019. She previously worked for KUSA, the NBC affiliate in Denver, and KTVE, the NBC affiliate licensed to El Dorado, Arkansas, and serving West Monroe, Louisiana.<\/p>\n

At Howard University she played for the women's lacrosse team for four years, and later served as head coach of the women's lacrosse team at the University of San Diego.<\/p>\n

Fitzgerald made headlines in June 2019 when she announced her engagement<\/a> on the air to her girlfriend, Kelly Heath, at the start of Pride Month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just felt like it was natural,\u201d she later said. \u201cPeople tune in to watch every morning; they\u2019re our family and we\u2019re theirs. And because it\u2019s Pride month, I didn\u2019t want to just make it about me. I want to help other people know that being different is OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fitzgerald also is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and the National Association of Black Journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meagan Fitzgerald, weekend morning news anchor at the NBC-owned station in Washington, D.C., has been named Chicago-based correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. \u201cA heartfelt and sincere honor,\u201d Fitzgerald tweeted today shortly after her hiring was announced by David Verdi,\u00a0 NBC News senior vice president of worldwide news gathering. \u201cI\u2019m very excited and grateful to... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26652"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26660,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26652\/revisions\/26660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}