Ellison Barber

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Ellison Barber
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Barber in 2019
Born (1989-10-20) October 20, 1989 (age 35)
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Education Wofford College [1]
OccupationJournalist
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] Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, she graduated from Wofford College with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 2012. [3]

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Barber spent months on the ground reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine [4] and was among the first group of international correspondents to report on the Israel-Hamas War in 2023. [5] [6]

Career

Barber served as a general assignment reporter and the Prince George's County Deputy Bureau Chief for Washington's CBS affiliate, WUSA. [7] At WUSA, Barber reported on an array of stories, [8] [9] [10] including the 2015 Washington, D.C., mass killing of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, the March 2016 U.S. Capitol lockdown, [11] and the protests following the shooting of Terrence Sterling. [12] [13] While at WUSA, Barber interviewed Washington Capitals' star Alexander Ovechkin during a blizzard. [14] The unintentional encounter went viral. [15] [16] [17]

Fox News (2017-2020)

In April 2017, she joined Fox News as a general assignment correspondent. [13] [18]

Ellison Barber and her crew at the UNHCR refugee assistance camp in Maicao, Colombia in May 2019. Barber at UNHCR Refugee Camp.jpg
Ellison Barber and her crew at the UNHCR refugee assistance camp in Maicao, Colombia in May 2019.

In 2019, Barber reported on the political turmoil in Venezuela and the resulting refugee crisis in neighboring countries. [19] [20] She and her crew were reporting on the Venezuela-Colombia border when gunfire erupted near the Simón Bolívar International Bridge [21] and a thirty-minute shootout ensued. [22] [23] [24] 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. [25]

NBC News (2020-present)

Barber joined NBC News as a New York-based correspondent on April 15, 2020. [26]

She extensively reported on the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic in the United States. [27] [28] [29] [30] She reported inside COVID ICUs across the country, filing reports from Alaska [31] to Mississippi. [32] [33]

Much of her career at NBC has been spent as a war correspondent covering conflicts around the globe. [34] [35] [36] She reported from the frontlines of the Ukraine-Russia War [37] [38] [39] and the Israel-Hamas War. [40] [34] [35] While reporting along the Gaza border, she and her team came under rocket fire during multiple live reports. [5] [41]

Barber reported from Haiti following the 2024 Haitian jailbreak and the ouster of then-Acting President Ariel Henry. [42]

Accolades

Barber was reporting outside of the United States Capitol as a mob attacked and overtook the Capitol building. [43] [44] [45] She remained live on NBC News throughout the evening. [46] In 2022, she won a News & Documentary Emmy Award for her reporting on the siege of the U.S. Capitol. [47]

In 2023, her war reporting earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Emerging Journalist. [48] [49]

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  9. ↑ Barber, Ellison. "World's AIDs Day: Remembering Leonard Matlovich". WUSA 9.
  10. ↑ Barber, Ellison. "Are D.C.'s weed delivery services legal?". WUSA 9.
  11. ↑ Barber, Ellison. "Suspect in US Capitol shooting identified". WUSA 9.
  12. ↑ Barber, Ellison. "Hundreds protest DC police fatal shooting". WUSA 9.
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