WRC Anchor Joins NBC News Chicago

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Fitzgerald will report across all platforms

(Image credit: WRC)

Meagan Fitzgerald has joined NBC News in Chicago as a correspondent. She will report on all platforms for NBC News as well as MSNBC.

Fitzgerald comes from NBC-owned WRC-TV Washington, where she has been weekend news co-anchor.

Her resume includes KUSA-TV Denver, where she covered the mass shooting in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in 2012 and the legalization of marijuana. She began her TV news career at KTVE-TV Monroe, Louisiana.

Fitzgerald is a graduate of Howard University in Washington.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.