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Molly Hunter | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Williams College (BA) |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Employer | NBC News |
| Spouse | William (m. 2023) |
| Children | 1 |
Molly Hunter is an American journalist and news correspondent at NBC News based in London. She was previously at ABC News based in Jerusalem and London. [1]
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Hunter attended Marin Academy in California. She then attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and International Relations. While attending the university, she received a scholarship named Jeffrey Owen Jones '66 Journalism Fellow. [2]
After graduating from the university, Hunter was a freelance journalist and to Amman, Beirut and Ramallah where she learned how to speak Arabic after speaking with Iraqi refugees. She then joined ABC News in 2010, starting from a desk assistant, contract editor, digital reporter, to foreign editor. [3]
In 2015, Hunter then worked her way to a reporter and producer in Jerusalem and was then moved to London in 2017, becoming a London-based reporter. While at ABC News, Hunter covered a variety of topics in countries from the Middle East and Europe and travelled abroad with Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump. She was also a member of a non-profit organization, "Reclaim Childhood", empowering refugee girls and women in sports and games. [3]
After 8 years with ABC, Hunter left the network and joined NBC News in 2019 as a correspondent and reported from New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. She was promoted to a foreign correspondent based in London. [1]
In 2023, Hunter married her husband William in London. [4] In 2024, Today announced she was pregnant and was expecting her first child while reporting live from Buckingham Palace. [5]