Ellison Barber
Ellison Litton Barber is an American journalist and correspondent for NBC News based in New York. She contributes to NBC News, MSNBC and NBC News Now.
Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, she graduated from Wofford College with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 2012.Career
Barber served as a general assignment reporter and the Prince George's County Deputy Bureau Chief for Washington's CBS affiliate, WUSA. At WUSA, Barber reported on an array of stories, including the 2015 Washington, D.C., mass killing of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, the March 2016 U.S. Capitol lock-down, and the protests following the shooting of Terrence Sterling.
She joined Fox News in April 2017, as a general assignment correspondent.
In 2019, Barber reported on the political turmoil in Venezuela and the resulting refugee crisis in neighboring countries. She and her crew were reporting on the Venezuela-Colombia border when gunfire erupted near the Simón Bolívar International Bridge and a thirty-minute shootout ensued. Barber was also the first reporter for a U.S.-based English-language network to travel to Maicao, Colombia and cover the UNHCR assistance camp set up to help refugees fleeing the political crisis in Venezuela.
Barber joined NBC News as a New York-based correspondent on April 15, 2020. Because she was hired during the height of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic in the United States, she remains based in the Washington, D.C. area until she can safely move to New York.While at WUSA, Barber interviewed Washington Capitals' star Alexander Ovechkin during a snow blizzard. The unintentional encounter went viral.
