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Jan Jeffcoat
Born1980 (age 43–44)
Columbia, South Carolina
EducationUniversity of Southern California, College of Journalism and Mass Communications (2000)
OccupationTelevision news anchor
EmployerWUSA (TV) (2013-2018)
SpouseMatthew Kingsley
Childrendaughters Kana Zen (b. March 2012); Kensington Sage (May 2015)
Websitejanjeffcoat.com
Notes

Jan Jeffcoat is a five time Emmy-award-winning television personality.

Acting Career

She’s made brief appearances on several television shows including NBC’s This Is Us, Netflix’s “What If”, FOX’s “911”, “Family Time” as well as “Truth Be Told” on Apple TV. She also has appeared as an actress on Lifetime Movie “My Daughter was Stolen”. In November 2019, she appeared in films “In the Line of Duty” and “Mainstream” with director Gia Coppola.

Broadcast Journalism Career

At age twelve she hosted a local children's program in her hometown of Greenville, South Carolina.

Her first reporting job was in Tallahassee, Florida. She has worked as a reporter and/or anchor at WBTV in Charlotte, NC and WCSC-TV in Charleston, SC,.

Jeffcoat was a morning anchor at KRIV in Houston, TX from November 2004 to June 2007[4]. During her time at KRIV, the morning show became Houston's fastest growing morning news.

Jan Jeffcoat began anchoring Chicgo's WFLD-TV on June 25, 2007. Initially, she was co-hosted the "Good Day Chicago" morning program. In August 2010, she was moved up to co-anchor of the station's Noon newscast. She hosted WFLD-TV's Good Day Chicago for three years which won an Illinois AP award for Best Newscast in 2008. While in Chicago, she won an Edward R. Murrow Award for a documentary she hosted. It’s included extensive content from her time covering the devastation in Haiti following the earthquake in 2010. She also garnered two local Emmy awards for separate reports[5].

She and three co anchors launched Scripps "The List"; a syndicated entertainment show. She left WFLD in 2012.

From 2013 - 2018 Jeffocat was a morning and evening TV news anchor for WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C..

Awards

She has won numerous awards throughout her television career, including winning an Edward R. Murrow Award and Emmy Award for her 2010 coverage of the Haiti earthquake devastation.

Jeffcoat has claimed she was once the only Texas television personality to anchor four hours of news each day. She was named "Top Houston Professional who's on the fast track" by H-Texas Magazine. During her first month in Houston she covered a collision on the Sam Houston Tollway. Her coverage on the aftermath of that wreck led to a nomination for a Regional Emmy. She also received an Emmy nomination for Best Anchor in Texas in 2006 and 2007 as well as two AP awards for anchoring, which she ultimately did not win. In 2005 and 2006, Jeffcoat was nominated for, but also did not win, a Star Award by the American Women of Radio and Television for Best On-Air Personality in Houston. She was also named 2010 Outstanding Young Alumni of the Year by her alma mater USC.

Personal

She has stated that her mother is of Japanese decent[6] and her father is part Native American.[1]

In 2003, she married talent agent Matthew Kingsley, owner and CEO of 3 Kings Entertainment, LLC[7]. Their first daughter Kana Zen was born in March 2012[8]. In early February 2015, she announced she was pregnant with another child.[9][10]. Her second daughter Kensington Sage was born May 2015[11][12][7][13].

In 2008 she moved to California when her husband moved his entertaiment company there[14].

References

  1. ^ a b Muller, Brad (November 2010). "Award Recipient Jan Jeffcoat, '00". My Carolina. My Carolina Alumni Association. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  2. ^ "Biography". Jan Jeffcoat. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  3. ^ Fantis, Manny (September 25, 2013). "Jan Jeffcoat | Weeknight Anchor". wusa9.com. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
  4. ^ https://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Jan-Jeffcoat-leaving-Channel-26-anchor-post-1841001.php
  5. ^ http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/news/2651-jan-jeffcoat-exits-wfld-tv-will-co-host-new-national-show
  6. ^ https://twitter.com/janjeffcoat/status/1259522287037845504
  7. ^ a b https://instagram.com/p/55G90PICxv/
  8. ^ https://twitter.com/janjeffcoat/status/1240522453018796032
  9. ^ Jan Jeffcoat [@janjeffcoat] (5 February 2015). "Happy Friday Eve everybody... I'm now 25 weeks pregnant. Woohoo! Pic of baby bump to come :-) Check…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  10. ^ http://instagram.com/p/yvFCCuoC5n/
  11. ^ http://www.wusa9.com/story/life/2015/08/24/jan-jeffcoat-returns-wusa9/32304797/
  12. ^ https://www.facebook.com/janjeffcoat/photos/a.10152014823517191.1073741826.104864277190/10152906507732191/?type=1&theater
  13. ^ https://twitter.com/janjeffcoat/status/1261048621916553216
  14. ^ https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/wusa-jan-jeffcoat-will-follow-husband-to-l-a-leave-d-c-station/207259/#:~:text=Longtime%20WUSA%20anchor%20Jan%20Jeffcoat,last%20week%20on%20social%20media.&text=Jeffcoat%20says%20she's%20leaving%20for,grow%20his%20TV%20agent%20business.
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