Antonia Hylton

Antonia Hylton (born September 26, 1993) is an American journalist. She is a former correspondent for NBC News and is currently the co-anchor for MS NOW's The Weekend: Primetime. She won two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting.

Early life Hylton was raised outside Boston, one of seven children. Both of her parents are lawyers.

Hylton was a correspondent for the news show The Report on Quibi until the platform shut down. She is currently a reporter for NBC News. In 2021 she became the co-reporter for NBC's Southlake, a podcast about how a group of white students' use of a racial epithet began a cascade of controversy around critical race theory in the suburb of Southlake, Texas. The podcast received accolades including a Peabody Award, a Scripps Howard Award, and it was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting.

Hylton has spoken on bias she has experienced as a Black woman reporter. She has also discussed the importance of authenticity in her reporting work. She has served as a judge for the American Mosaic Journalism Prize every year since 2019.

In 2024 Hylton published her debut book, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum, about Crownsville Hospital. The book was a New York Times best seller.

In 2025, it was announced Hylton would depart NBC News to co-host The Weekend: Primetime alongside Ayman Mohyeldin, Catherine Rampell and Elise Jordan, which debuted in May 2025.

In 2026, MS NOW announced that it had canceled The Weekend: Primetime, and Hylton would succeed the departing Alex Witt as the new anchor for the 1 p.m. hour later in the year.

Personal life Hylton was diagnosed with a rare neuroendocrine tumor on her colon when she was 30. She had the tumor removed and the cancer did not spread.

Accolades 2019 – News and Documentary Emmy Award, Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast (for Vice News Tonight: Zero Tolerance) 2020 – Forbes, 30 under 30 2022 – 69th Scripps Howard Award for Excellence in Radio/Podcast Coverage (for Southlake) 2022 – Peabody Award for Podcast/Radio (for Southlake) 2022 – News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Emerging Journalist