Daily News | Philly native Kristen Welker gets a big promotion at NBC
, telling The Inquirer in 2016 she was “in awe of Barbara Walters interviewing Patrick Swayze and dancing with him.”ran unsuccessfully for Philadelphia City Council.“Some reporters asked her about being married to my father — they have an interracial relationship — as if that was somehow a negative thing,” Welker said. “I think my parents handled it with grace I would get very upset about this line of questioning. It made me realize how important it is that political reporters are being fair.
Andrea Mitchell, the chief foreign affairs correspondent at NBC News and MSNBC anchor, quickly became friends with Welker during the 2016 presidential campaign.. “She’s very down to Earth, very connected to home and family, and I think she combines all of the great talents you’d want in a superb journalist.”Welker spent five years at NBC10
Welker graduated from Germantown Friends School and Harvard University, and spent several years working for ABC affiliates before landing with NBC in 2005 as a reporter for NBC10. She also served as a weekend anchor. She remained in Philadelphia for five years before a temporary reporting assignment at NBC’s Los Angeles bureau. That turned into a role as a network correspondent for NBC News based in Burbank, Calif., and from there she’s never looked back.NBC10 has been a jumping-off platform for a number of national media figures. Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was once a reporter for the station, and it was the launching pad for CBS News executive editor and former NBC News president Steve Capus.
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