PERSON: Emilie Ikeda

Correspondent

Emilie Ikeda is an NBC News Correspondent based in New York. She reports for all of the network’s platforms, including “TODAY,” “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” NBC News NOW, NBC News Daily and MSNBC.

Since joining NBC News in July 2021, Ikeda’s reporting has carried her from coast to coast – from a massive oil spill in California to flooding in Washington, a truck driver shortage in Mississippi and a racially-motivated supermarket shooting in New York.

She had the rare opportunity to shadow an elite firefighting crew, referred to as the “hotshots,” as they scaled the Sierra Nevada Mountains, battling a relentless blaze.

You will frequently find Ikeda covering business news and breaking down what the developments mean for American families, reporting on the tumultuous housing market, baby formula shortage, decades-high inflation and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes.

Previously, Ikeda worked as an MMJ/reporter and fill-in anchor at FOX 5 Atlanta, as well as a multimedia reporter for Fox News. During her tenure there, she covered deadly hurricanes and tornados, actor Bill Cosby’s re-trial, Congressman John Lewis’ death and numerous mass killings, including the Parkland school shooting and Pittsburgh synagogue massacre.

Ikeda studied broadcast journalism and political science, graduating magna cum laude from American University’s Honors College. She also minored in dance and was captain of the school’s Division I field hockey team.

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