Tamron Hall

Tamron Hall is intent on keeping her private life under wraps. However, there have been rumors that she was dating Lawrence O’Donnell, her fellow MSNBC news anchor and host of ‘The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. In January 2017, she mentioned that she was dating a man named “Tony,” although it’s uncertain if she had been joking.

Tamron Hall was born on September 16, 1970, in Luling, Texas. She grew up with her mother Mary Newton and stepfather Clarence Newton Sr. “I was born to a different father, but God brought in my stepfather who should be my dad,” Tamron said in an interview. Her stepfather, who had spent a major part of his adult life in the military, imbibed in her a sense of order and discipline, and encouraged her to become a journalist.

She holds a Bachelor of the Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from Temple University.

Tamron Hall began her broadcasting career with KBTX in Bryan, Texas, as a general assignment reporter. Later she moved to KTVT, a CBS owned-and-operated television station serving the Dallas, in Fort Worth, Texas.

In 1997, she joined WFLD-TV, a Fox owned-and-operated television station in Chicago, Illinois, and being a former resident of Chicago, she reported on issues related to local politics.

At WFLD-TV, she hosted the three-hour ‘Fox News in the Morning’, and covered many ‘breaking news’ stories including Amtrak's devastating train-truck collision in 1999. She launched a consumer report segment, ‘The Bottom Line,’ in 1999. At WFLD-TV, she held several other positions including those of a general assignment reporter and consumer reporter, and anchored the weekday mornings. She departed from WFLD-TV in 2007.

She joined the MSNBC national news network in 2007, where she worked for the next ten years. She served as a general reporter and fill-in anchor, and first gained prominence as a substitute anchor along with Keith Olbermann on the ‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann’ program.

In 2008, her one-on-one interview with Barack Obama before he announced his run for presidency was highly appreciated. Next, she joined David Shuster as co-host of ‘The Big Picture’, a two-hour program that started in June 2009, and concluded in January 2010.

Tamron Hall fights against homelessness, illiteracy, and domestic abuse, and is involved with several charitable organizations and their campaigns. She wrote a personal account of her sister’s unnatural death for theGrio.com in 2010, which earned her praises for honesty and for drawing attention to the issue of domestic and dating violence.

She is an active member of the National Association of Black Journalists, which is accusing NBC of “whitewashing,” as it has cancelled Hall’s program in favor of a new show by former Fox News host Megyn Kelly. The association also criticized Kelly, saying that she “has a well-documented history of offensive remarks regarding people of color.”

Through Today's ‘Shine A Light’ campaign, Hall voiced her views against domestic abuse. The program strives to end social evils like domestic and dating abuse, homelessness, hunger, and others.

She aims to create a Public Schools Association for schools to spread awareness about emotionally and physically abusive relationships amongst teens. She does fundraising for Day One New York, Inc., which fights against dating abuse. So far they have raised over $40,000.