Chris Jansing is a very seasoned professional and a finely polished gem in the field of television broadcasting. With her sheer talent, dedication, and commitment towards this work field, she has won the hearts of million viewers. Her praiseworthy journey has not only established her as the renowned television correspondent. Rather she is the household name that stands with her unique identity among many.
Currently, this very talented figure is working as a correspondent for NBC News and also for the network’s cable division, MSNBC. Her job as a breaking news anchor and the political reporter has gathered a lot of viewers as she has been able to impress them with her charming manners and unbeatable skills.
She has also worked in a very reputed position of the Senior White House Correspondent. This was from 2014 to January 20, 2017. Another interesting fact of her life is that her real surname is Kapostasy, but professionally she chose to take the name Jansing. Jansing is the surname of her ex-husband. That is to say, she changed her surname after marrying her husband and still chose to go by that name even after they had divorced each other.
After majoring in political science in 1978, she first joined a cable station in Columbus, Ohio as an intern. From there, she was accepted in a job for a short stint at a radio station called WIPS in New York. After that, she again became a general assignment reporter for another television station called WNYT television. Serving her time in WYNT, she remained for a very extended period in this organization. She served WNYT for seventeen years.
While doing her work there, she also received a very prestigious Emma Award for covering the Olympic Park bombing at the Olympic Games held in Atlanta in 1996. Not only this, but she also won the “best Person” award for her report on hunger in New York State from the New York State Broadcasters Association. So she is an award-winning correspondent whose contributions to the field of journalism is immense. That makes it evident that her income is very rewarding. It has been reported that her net worth is accumulated to be approximately of $8 million.
Moving on to his personal life, this sixty-year-old professional’s family life is a total mystery. Does she have any children is an unknown matter to us. Obviously, we are talking about her children because she was once married.
Yes, she was married to Robert Jansing in 1982, but her relationship with her husband couldn’t sustain for long as they underwent divorce shortly afterward. Her husband Jansing was a chemist. For now, is Chris dating anyone or has she gotten any boyfriend is a matter kept in suspense? The things about her current relationship can be only speculated as there is a lack of any solid information.
Jansing belongs to Roman Catholic family. She happens to be the youngest of twelve children to parents Joseph and Tilly Kapostasy. Her ethnicity is a mixed ethnicity because she is of Hungarian and Slovak descent.