1. Kristen Welker was born on July 1,1976 and is an American television journalist working for NBC News.
15 Facts About Kristen Welker
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Kristen Welker serves as a White House correspondent based in Washington, DC, and served as co-anchor of Weekend Today, the Saturday edition of Today, alongside Peter Alexander from 2020 to 2023.
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Kristen Welker took over hosting duties for the longest-running program in television history, Meet the Press, on September 17,2023.
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Kristen Welker's father is an engineer, her mother a real estate agent.
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Kristen Welker graduated from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia in 1994 and Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1998.
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Kristen Welker then joined NBC News in 2010 as a correspondent based at the NBC News West Coast Headquarters in Burbank, California.
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Kristen Welker became an NBC White House correspondent in December 2011.
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Kristen Welker regularly represented MSNBC at the daily White House press briefings as well as reported live for various programs on the channel.
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Kristen Welker occasionally filled in on NBC Nightly News and Today.
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On January 10,2020, NBC announced that Kristen Welker would become the regular co-anchor of Weekend Today alongside Peter Alexander.
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Kristen Welker debuted as co-anchor on Weekend Today on January 11,2020.
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On October 22,2020, amidst the ongoing COVID pandemic emergency, Kristen Welker hosted the final debate in the 2020 presidential election between incumbent Republican president Donald Trump and his challenger, former vice president Joe Biden.
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On June 4,2023, it was announced by NBC that Kristen Welker had been named to succeed Chuck Todd as anchor of their Sunday morning program, Meet the Press, starting on September 17,2023, and its weekday spin-off Meet the Press Now on NBC News NOW starting on September 22,2023.
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The interview received some criticism because some felt Kristen Welker did not challenge Trump's alleged falsehoods enough and that Trump shouldn't have been given a platform to spread his views on the 2020 election and other topics.
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Kristen Welker married John Hughes on March 4,2017, in Philadelphia.