- Jamie Gangel
Jamie Gangel is a
television reporter in theUnited States . She became a national correspondent for theNBC News ' "Today" show in February 1992. Since joining NBC News in 1983 as a general assignment and political correspondent based inWashington, DC , Gangel has been a frequent contributor to "NBC Nightly News ", "Today", and "Sunday Today ".Biography
Gangel was born and raised in
New York City . She graduated with a B.S. degree fromGeorgetown University 'sEdmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in 1977 . She also attendedHarvard University in 1976, where she studiedinternational economics .Gangel began her career in
broadcast journalism in 1978 as an assignment editor forWJLA-TV in Washington, DC. At the same time, she worked for all-news radio station WTOP, theCBS affiliate in the nation's capital. In 1982, she joined television station WPLG-TV in Miami as a general assignment reporter and substitute anchor.Gangel won the 1981
Associated Press Award for Best Spot News Coverage for her story on the closing of the "Washington Star". She was nominated for anEmmy Award in 1982 for her investigative report on a political pollster.Gangel provided some of the first reports of the September 11th attacks from New York.
Gangel is married to author
Daniel Silva .External links
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5288371/ Jamie Gangel] at
MSNBC .com
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