PERSON: Jesse Kirsch

Correspondent

Jesse Kirsch has joined NBC News as a weekend correspondent and will be based in Cleveland. He comes from WLS Chicago, where he was hired as the station’s first digital reporter, then moved on to be a general assignment reporter.

Stories Kirsch covered at WLS include a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio and social justice protests in Chicago following the death of George Floyd.

Kirsch was an early host on ABC’s Localish, a digital and network show. He attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

His role at NBC includes reporting across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms.

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