14 Facts About Luke Russert

Luke Russert's reporting has been shown on NBC Nightly News, TODAY, NBCNews.

Luke Russert has been a guest anchor on various MSNBC programs, including Morning Joe and Way Too Early with Jonathan Lemire.

Luke Russert is the son of newsman Tim Luke Russert and Maureen Orth, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair.

Luke Russert graduated from St Albans School in Washington, DC in 2004.

Luke Russert worked for ESPN's Pardon the Interruption while a student at Boston College, where he double-majored in Communications and History and graduated in 2008.

Luke Russert was assigned to cover both the Democratic and Republican conventions.

Luke Russert has openly acknowledged that critics in the media, including some colleagues, have leveled accusations of unqualified nepotism, because of both his father's position at NBC and his mother's position as a Vanity Fair correspondent, given that he had virtually no professional on air television experience at the time of his hiring.

Luke Russert made headlines in 2010 when he received a public apology from Rep.

Congressman Rangel had criticized Luke Russert's aggressive questioning over an ethics report that showed Rangel's fiscal indiscretions and illegal donation solicitations, but then reversed his stance and apologized to Luke Russert instead.

In February 2012, Luke Russert made his primetime debut on NBC's Dateline with "Conviction", which examined whether the 1998 murder conviction of Jon-Adrian Velazquez was justified or whether Velazquez was wrongly sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder he didn't commit.

Luke Russert suddenly resigned from NBC in July 2016, saying he needed to evaluate his career opportunities.

Luke Russert has told Politico that, as a sports junkie, he makes sure to watch ESPN's SportsCenter and College GameDay and NBC's Sunday Night Football.

Luke Russert contributed an essay titled "What I Learned From My Dad" to Parade for its June 19,2011 issue.

Luke Russert is a member of the Buffalo Fan Alliance Board, an organization committed to keeping the Buffalo Bills within the city of Buffalo, New York, the hometown of his father.