Checking in with KATE SNOW
Long a staple of NBC News, Kate Snow is delivering information there “Daily.”
The veteran journalist is among the anchors of the weekday “NBC News Daily,” on which she and co-anchor Aaron Gilchrist alternate with the anchor team of Vicky Nguyen and Morgan Radford. While the show’s overarching mission remains to provide timely information on the given day’s major stories, Snow says she appreciates the time the program allows for expanded and extra content as well.
“We haven’t had dayside, network-level national and international news in a while,” Snow reasons. “I think there are a lot of viewers out there who are really hungry for, ‘Just tell me what’s happening. Get me up to speed on what I should know.’ And that can be a range of things.”
For instance, as Snow reflects, “We might do a deep dive on a medical story, or a deep dive on a tech story. We’re very much trying to think of what the average viewer is looking for, what kind of news they can use in addition to all of the headlines.”
Besides the personal skills that have made her a News & Documentary Emmy winner (“I am an ambitious person, and I ask a lot of questions and make a lot of contacts”), Snow attributes her career to “a lot of lucky turns.” She cites one of those as her work at a local radio station while she was a Cornell University student: “I signed up at the end of my freshman year, and you can draw a straight line from that to where I am now. I got my experience in the trenches in hyper-local news.”
Birthdate: June 10, 1969
Birthplace: Bangor, Maine
Current residence: New York
Marital status: Married to radio personality Chris Bro; they have two children
Other television credits: “NBC Nightly News,” “MSNBC Live,” “Relentless With Kate Snow,” “Dateline NBC,” “Today,” “Rock Center With Brian Williams,” “ABC World News,” “Good Morning America”
Previous places of employment: ABC News; CNN; NPR; KOAT-TV, Albuquerque, N.M.
On one of her earliest jobs: “After graduate school, I was able to get myself a job at CNN in Atlanta, not on the air but as a booker/producer. I did that for a couple of years, then I thought, ‘Maybe I could be on the other side of the camera.’ Do, I moved to New Mexico and worked there for three years ... but I still knew people at CNN, so I was able to send them my tape from New Mexico and say, ‘Hey, look what I’m doing.’ And I was able to go back to CNN, servicing its affiliates through CNN NewsSource.”