Christine Ann Kapostasy-Jansing (born January 30, 1957) is an American television journalist. She anchors ''Chris Jansing Reports'' airing from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET weekdays on

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, having replaced '' MTP Daily'' in May 2022. Jansing previously hosted '' Jansing and Company'' on MSNBC from 2010 to 2014, and served as the

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senior White House correspondent from 2014 to 2017.

Early life and education

Jansing was born to a

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family in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, the youngest of 12 children of Joseph and Tilly Kapostasy.Her Life Magazine: "Inspirations - CHRIS JANSING" by Ann E. Butenas
March 2013 She is of Hungarian and Slovak descent. Originally a

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major, Jansing switched majors to

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after working for the college radio station. In 1978, she graduated from Otterbein College with a

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degree.

Career

After college, she worked as an intern at a cable station in

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, and then accepted a job for a short stint at radio station WIPS (AM) in

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. Her next stop was as a news reporter for WOKO, an AM radio station in

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. She then accepted a position as a general assignment reporter for

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television in

, where she quickly rose to become the weekend anchor and then the weekly co-anchor. She stayed at WNYT for 17 years. While there, she won a

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in 1997 for her coverage of the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. Jansing joined NBC News in June 1998, at which point she began to use the last name of Jansing professionally instead of her maiden name of Kapostasy that she had used before then. She has since anchored and reported for

and has been a substitute anchor for ''

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'', and the Sunday version of ''

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''. In 2008, she relocated to

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and worked as a field reporter for two years before returning as an anchor in 2010. Chris Jansing previously anchored the 10 am hour on MSNBC weekdays on '' Jansing and Company'', with

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regularly serving as a correspondent and substitute anchor. The show ended on June 13, 2014, when Jansing became NBC's Senior White House Correspondent. On June 1, 2017, Jansing was named senior national correspondent for

. As part of the role, Jansing would continue to anchor the network's breaking news coverage alongside

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, as well as provide coverage from the White House and Capitol Hill. On May 6, 2022, it was announced that with the move of '' MTP Daily'' to

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, Jansing would take over the slot with her own hour of '' MSNBC Reports''. Her show expanded to two hours on February 13, 2023.

Awards

* An

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for her coverage of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing at the

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. She also has a second Emmy Award. * "Best Person" award from the New York State Broadcasters Association for her report on hunger in New York State. * Inducted into the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in June 2016.

Personal life

In 1982, she married Robert Jansing, a chemist, who ran an analytical chemistry laboratory, and in 1998, upon her move to

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, she began using her married name. She explained it was easier for viewers to pronounce."Kapostasy Changing On-Air Name," ''Albany NY Times-Union'', June 20, 1998, p. D6 The couple subsequently divorced.

References

External links

NBC News bio
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