Ellison Barber | |
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Education | South Forsyth High School Wofford College [1] |
Occupation | Journalist |
Employer | NBC News |
Ellison Litton Barber [1] is an American journalist and correspondent for NBC News. She frequently reports from conflict zones and contributes reporting to all NBC News platforms, including NBC News, MSNBC and NBC News Now. [2]
Barber spent months on the ground reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine [3] and was among the first group of international correspondents to report on the Israel-Hamas War in 2023. [4] [5]
Barber was reporting outside of the United States Capitol as a mob attacked and overtook the Capitol building. [6] [7] [8] She remained live on NBC News throughout the evening. [9] She won a News & Documentary Emmy Award for her reporting on the siege of the U.S. Capitol, in 2022. [10]
In 2023, her war reporting earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Emerging Journalist. [11] [12]
Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, she graduated from Wofford College with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 2012. [13]
Barber joined NBC News as a New York-based correspondent on April 15, 2020. [14] Much of her career at NBC has been spent in the field covering conflicts around the globe. [15] [16] [17] She reported from the frontlines of the Ukraine-Russia War [18] [19] [20] and the Israel-Hamas War. [21] [15] [22]
While reporting along the Gaza border, she and her team came under rocket fire during multiple live reports. [4] [23]
Barber reported from Haiti [24] following the 2024 Haitian jailbreak and the ouster of then-Acting President Ariel Henry.
She extensively reported on the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic in the United States. [25] [26] [27] [28] She reported inside COVID ICUs across the country, filing reports from Alaska [29] to Mississippi. [30] [31]
Prior to joining NBC, Barber served as a general assignment reporter and the Prince George's County Deputy Bureau Chief for Washington's CBS affiliate, WUSA. [32]
At WUSA, Barber reported on an array of stories, [33] [34] [35] including the 2015 Washington, D.C., mass killing of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, the March 2016 U.S. Capitol lockdown, [36] and the protests following the shooting of Terrence Sterling. [37] [38]
In April 2017, she joined Fox News as a general assignment correspondent. [38] [39]
In 2019, Barber reported on the political turmoil in Venezuela and the resulting refugee crisis in neighboring countries. [40] [41] She and her crew were reporting on the Venezuela-Colombia border when gunfire erupted near the Simón Bolívar International Bridge [42] and a thirty-minute shootout ensued. [43] [44] [45] Barber was also the first reporter for a U.S.-based English-language network to travel to Maicao, Colombia and cover the UNHCR assistance camp set up to help refugees fleeing the political crisis in Venezuela. [46]
While at WUSA, Barber interviewed Washington Capitals' star Alexander Ovechkin during a blizzard. [47] The unintentional encounter went viral. [48] [49] [50]
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