NBC News Announces Campaign Embeds For 2024 Election Cycle

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NBC News announced the class of nine journalists who will be deployed to cover 2024 presidential candidates and battleground states, tracking every movement of campaigns as the race unfolds.

The embeds, as they are called, serve as the eyes and ears on the ground for the NBCU news platforms, and are expected to do everything from research to shoot b-roll and live events, file digital stories and do on-air reporting.

This cycle’s class of embeds includes Emma Barnett, an associate producer for NBC News Now’s Hallie Jackson Now who previously worked on the Morning News Now team; Sarah Dean, producer for Meet the Press, where she has served as Chuck Todd’s anchor producer for the Sunday broadcast and produces guest interviews and writes the weekly Data Download segment; Nnamdi Egwuonwu, segment producer for MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell and previously Zerlina on Peacock; Jillian Frankel, a Washington, D.C.-based associate producer for NBC News who previously worked on NBC News specials in New York, helping to produce coverage of events like the January 6th riot and the Covid pandemic; Alec Hernandez, who has worked in the NBC News New York bureau covering high profile court cases, natural disasters and politics; Greg Hyatt, who has served as producer for the newsgathering and planning team at MSNBC; Katherine Koretski, who has been with the NBC News New York bureau as a field associate producer covering events such as Donald Trump’s arraignment; Alex Tabet, associate producer who helped produce Meet The Cabinet, a series that profiled Biden administration cabinet members, and Around the World Now In 60 Seconds; and Jake Traylor, associate producer at MSNBC, where he has helped producer political segments