Chris Jansing

Christine Ann Kapostasy-Jansing (born January 30, 1957) is an American television journalist. She anchors Chris Jansing Reports airing from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET weekdays on MS NOW, having replaced MTP Daily in May 2022.

Jansing previously hosted Jansing and Company on MSNBC from 2010 to 2014, and served as the NBC News senior White House correspondent from 2014 to 2017.

Early life and education Jansing was born to a Roman Catholic family in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, the youngest of 12 children of Joseph and Tilly Kapostasy. She is of Hungarian and Slovak descent. Originally a political science major, Jansing switched majors to broadcast journalism after working for the college radio station. She then accepted a position as a general assignment reporter for WNYT television in Albany, New York, where she quickly rose to become the weekend anchor and then the weekly co-anchor.

Jansing joined NBC News in June 1998, at which point she began to use the last name of Jansing professionally instead of her maiden name of Kapostasy that she had used before then. She has since anchored and reported for MSNBC and has been a substitute anchor for The Today Show, and the Sunday version of NBC Nightly News. In 2008, she relocated to Los Angeles and worked as a field reporter for two years before returning as an anchor in 2010. On May 6, 2022, it was announced that with the move of MTP Daily to NBC News NOW, Jansing would take over the slot with her own hour of MSNBC Reports. Her show expanded to two hours on February 13, 2023. Her show was moved from 1 p.m. ET to noon, following the departure of Andrea Mitchell's program, and ahead of MSNBC's spin-off from NBCUniversal.

On March 18, 2026, it was reported Jansing has been named MS NOW's chief political reporter. As part of a schedule revamp, she will vacate her timeslot for MS NOW Reports, with the changes to take effect in June.

Awards An Emmy Award for her coverage of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. She also has a second Emmy Award. "Best Person" award from the New York State Broadcasters Association for her report on hunger in New York State. Inducted into the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in June 2016.

Personal life In 1982, she married Robert Jansing, a chemist, who ran an analytical chemistry laboratory, and in 1998, upon her move to NBC, she began using her married name. She explained it was easier for viewers to pronounce.

The couple subsequently divorced.