www.JenniferEHale.com

Welcome to the online home for anchor & journalist, Jennifer Hale!

Jennifer Hale is an Emmy-award winning anchor and reporter who is proud to, once again, call New Orleans home.

Jen has worked in Monroe, Baton Rouge, and Birmingham before moving back to New Orleans. She's won several Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards, as well as numerous awards from the Associated Press, including for her MSNBC coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the Natalee Holloway case.

Jen recently published her first book: Historic Plantations of Alabama's Black Belt, and is now working on her second publication.

She was also selected as a 2009 RIAS Commission Fellow and spent several weeks in Germany and Belgium studing the German and European Union systems of government and trade.

Jen loves returning to LSU for football games and to emcee the Miss LSU Pageant, which is sponsored by Delta Zeta and benefits Alzheimer's research and the speech and hearing impaired. In her spare time, Jen cooks for the Ronald McDonald House and enjoys running, cycling, freelance writing, and photography. She also loves to ski and surf when vacations allow. She's a member of the Young Leadership Council, the New Orleans Bicycle Club, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Vieux Carre Property Owners and Residents Association, Inc.

Jennifer was born in New Orleans, grew up in Mobile, and returned to Louisiana to attend LSU's Honors College. She majored in political science and minored in journalism. While at LSU, Jen was a member of Delta Zeta Sorority, Golden Key Honor Society, a captain of the LSU Cheerleading Squad, Miss LSU, and LSU Homecoming Queen. In a foray above the Mason-Dixon Line, Jennifer earned her Master's Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. She also attended The Fund for American Studies' Insitute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University and completed a certificate on Irish Culture and Politics at University College Dublin in Ireland.