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Nicole Ellis is PBS NewsHour's digital anchor where she hosts pre- and post-shows and breaking news live streams on digital platforms and serves as a correspondent for the nightly broadcast. Ellis joined the NewsHour from The Washington Post, where she was an Emmy nominated on-air reporter and anchor covering social issues and breaking news. In this role, she hosted, produced, and directed original documentaries and breaking news videos for The Post’s website, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Facebook and Twitch, earning a National Outstanding Breaking News Emmy Nomination for her coverage of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Ellis created and hosted The Post’s first original documentary series, “Should I freeze my eggs?,” in which she explores her own fertility and received the 2019 Digiday Publishers Award. She also created and hosted the Webby Award-winning news literacy series “The New Normal,” the most viewed video series in the history of The Washington Post’s women’s vertical, The Lily.

She is the author of “We Go High,” a non-fiction self-help-by-proxy book on overcoming adversity publishing in 2022, and host of Critical Conversations on BookClub, an author-led book club platform.

Prior to that, Ellis was a part of the production team for the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series, CNN Heroes. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Human Rights from Columbia University, as well as a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia Journalism School.

Nicole’s Recent Stories

Health May 24

What you should know about rapid antigen tests

Katelyn Jetelina, who writes the Your Local Epidemiologist newsletter about the science of the pandemic, offered some advice about the best times and ways to use this tool. …

Nation Apr 26

WATCH: Madeleine Albright’s funeral at the Washington National Cathedral

World leaders and U.S. political and foreign policy elite paid their respects Wednesday to the late Madeleine Albright, the child refugee from war-torn Europe who rose to become America's first female secretary of state.

Health Apr 13

People with alopecia share their stories: ‘Hair does not define any of us’

Alopecia, an auto-immune disease that causes hair loss, was brought center stage at the Oscars, when actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock over a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, who suffers from the condition. We hear from…

Economy Apr 12

WATCH: How student loan debt disproportionately hurts Black borrowers

Americans, in total, owe nearly $1.75 billion in student loan debt, with more than 44 million people owing, according to a 2020 NAACP report.

Politics Apr 07

WATCH: What happens now that Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed to the Supreme Court?

“This is a bit of an unprecedented situation, according to Supreme Court historians, in that she has a long wait," PBS NewsHour National Correspondent John Yang said.

Economy Mar 16

WATCH: Why are gas prices so high and how long could they stay this way?

The average prices of retail gasoline has risen 25 percent in the past two months and nearly 70 percent since President Joe Biden came into office. But what's to blame for skyrocketing gas prices? The COVID pandemic, inflation, the Russian…

Nation Mar 08

On International Women’s Day, UN report details the gender discrimination women still face

On International Women’s Day, we take a closer look at the state of women and girls worldwide. Michelle Milford Morse, the United Nations Foundation’s vice president for girls and women strategy, joins NewsHour's Nicole Ellis to discuss the agency’s new…

World Mar 08

WATCH: Taking a look at the state of gender inequality on International Women’s Day

On International Women's Day, PBS NewsHour is taking a closer look at the state of women and girls worldwide.

Politics Mar 01

WATCH: What to expect from Biden’s first State of the Union address

Ahead of the President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address, PBS NewsHour’s Digital Anchor Nicole Ellis discusses how the president will speak to those issues in a series of conversations with the NewsHour’s William Brangham, Lisa Desjardins and…

Politics Mar 01

What to watch in Biden’s 2022 State of the Union

When President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address tonight, it will be to a nation in the throes of different crises.

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