Jenna Wolfe
Jenna Wolfe (born in 1974 in Jamaica) is an American journalist. Jenna currently reports for NBC News as a correspondent for Today, and co-host of Sunday Today. Wolfe occasionally guest hosts for Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe on MSNBC. Wolfe previously reported sports on the weekend morning editions of ABC's Eyewitness News in New York City. Wolfe occasionally substitutes on the fourth hour of Today. Wolfe joined WABC-TV in 2004. Prior to that, she worked for the Madison Square Garden Network. Before that, she was the first female sportscaster for WPHL-TV in Philadelphia, for WICZ-TV in Binghamton, and for WUHF-TV in Rochester NY. The anchor of her weekend morning reports on WABC Eyewitness News was her segment "Jenna's Beef", in which she editorialized on an event from the world of sports that week. Wolfe also occasionally substitutes for Lester Holt and Amy Robach on the Saturday Edition of Today.
Wolfe was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Petionville, Haiti, before moving to the United States with her family in 1989. She graduated from SUNY-Binghamton with Bachelor of Arts degrees in French and English. She is fluent in French and Creole.
Wolfe currently lives in Manhattan. Her last day at WABC-TV was June 24, 2007. [1] Wolfe began reporting for NBC News on August 13, 2007.[2]
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She is known by her co-workers as J-Date. In an Olympic wrap-up show, Jenna was involved in a slight controversy when fellow cohost, Tiki Barber, may have accidentally used an expletive on the air.