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}]}}