Ellison Barber
Barber in 2019
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 war in 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]

Career

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] [22] [23]}

While reporting along the Gaza border, she and her team came under rocket fire during multiple live reports. ^{[24] [25]}

Barber reported from Haiti ^[26] 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. ^{[27] [28] [29] [30]} She reported inside COVID ICUs across the country, filing reports from Alaska ^[31] to Mississippi. ^{[32] [33]}

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. ^[34]

At WUSA, Barber reported on an array of stories, ^{[35] [36] [37]} including the 2015 Washington, D.C., mass killing of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, the March 2016 U.S. Capitol lockdown, ^[38] and the protests following the shooting of Terrence Sterling. ^{[39] [40]}

In April 2017, she joined Fox News as a general assignment correspondent. ^{[40] [41]}

In 2019, Barber reported on the political turmoil in Venezuela and the resulting refugee crisis in neighboring countries. ^{[42] [43]} She and her crew were reporting on the Venezuela-Colombia border when gunfire erupted near the Simón Bolívar International Bridge ^[44] and a thirty-minute shootout ensued. ^{[45] [46] [47]} 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. ^[48]

Alexander Ovechkin interview

While at WUSA, Barber interviewed Washington Capitals' star Alexander Ovechkin during a blizzard. ^[49] The unintentional encounter went viral. ^{[50] [51] [52]}

See also

• Notable War Correspondents
• New Yorkers in journalism

References

External links

• Ellison Barber at IMDb
• Ellison Barber on Instagram

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