Jennifer Hale fell in love with the Crescent City at an early age. Jen was born in New Orleans, and throughout her time living in many different cities, she has always looked forward to returning home.
Jennifer grew up in Mobile and returned to Louisiana to attend LSU's Honors College, where she majored in political science and 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, Illinois. She also attended The Fund for American Studies' Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University and completed a certificate on Irish Culture and Politics at University College Dublin in Ireland.
An award winning anchor/reporter, Jen has worked in Monroe, Baton Rouge and Birmingham before moving home 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.
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She was also selected as a 2009 RIAS Commission fellow and spent several weeks in Germany and Belgium studying 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 Foundation. 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.
You can e-mail Jennifer at
jhale@fox8tv.net.
