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Antonia Hylton

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Antonia Hylton
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Antonia Hylton (born September 26, 1993)[1] is an American journalist. She is a former correspondent for NBC News and is currently the co-anchor for MSNBC's The Weekend: Primetime. She won two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting.[2]

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Early life and education

Hylton was raised outside Boston, one of seven children.[3][2] Both of her parents are lawyers.[3] Her aunt is journalist Soledad O'Brien.[4] She was an avid reader growing up, and also performed in choir, musical theater, and was a member of dance groups.[3] In 2015 she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she majored in History and Science and Global Health.[3]

Career

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Hylton was hired directly after graduation by Mic.com as a producer and writer for their news shows Flip the Script and Future Present.[3] Hylton met activist Darnell Moore working at Mic. Together they developed the docuseries The Movement with Darnell Moore, about grassroots organizing around the United States.[3] The next year, Hylton joined Vice News Tonight as a correspondent and producer covering civil rights and politics.[3] She reported on topics including gang violence and immigration.[3][5]

Hylton was a correspondent for the news show The Report on Quibi until the platform shut down.[2][6] She is currently a reporter for NBC News.[7] 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.[8][9][10] In 2022 she won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Emerging Journalist.[11]

Hylton has spoken on bias she has experienced as a Black woman reporter.[12] She has also discussed the importance of authenticity in her reporting work.[12] She has served as a judge for the American Mosaic Journalism Prize every year since 2019.[13]

In 2024 Hylton published her debut book, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum, about Crownsville Hospital.[14] The book was a New York Times best seller.[15]

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.[16]

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Personal life

Hylton was diagnosed with a rare neuroendocrine tumor on her colon when she was 30.[17] She had the tumor removed and the cancer did not spread.[17]

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