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Jenna Wolfe serves as the Sunday TODAY co-anchor and as a correspondent for NBC News’ weekday TODAY, where she covers feature stories for America’s top-rated morning news program.
Wolfe joined NBC News in August 2007 as a TODAY correspondent. She came to NBC from WABC-TV in New York City, where she spent three years as a sports reporter and anchor. While at WABC, Wolfe went on location daily, covering sporting events throughout the Tri-State Area. She also served as a weekend anchor for “Eyewitness News This Morning.”
From 2002 to 2004, Wolfe was a reporter and anchor for MSG Networ,k where she hosted the network’s flagship “MSG SportsDesk.” Prior to that, she served as Philadelphia’s first female sportscaster on a local broadcast television news program, at WPHL-TV, the WB affiliate there.
Wolfe began her on-air career in 1996 as a news and sports reporter for WICZ-TV, the FOX affiliate in Binghamton, N.Y. Two years later, she joined WUHF in Rochester, where she was the weekend sports anchor before joining WPHL in 1999.
When Wolfe joined TODAY full-time, it was actually her second experience with the show; she served as a summer intern at the program during college.
Wolfe was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Petionville, Haiti, before moving to the United States with her family in 1989. She graduated from SUNY-Binghamton with Bachelor of Arts degrees in French and English. She is fluent in French and Creole.
Wolfe is a sports enthusiast off-air; she plays such sports as racquetball and volleyball, and enjoys skydiving and waterskiing. Wolfe resides in Manhattan.
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