Adrienne Bankert Joins NewsNation As Anchor-Correspondent

NewsNation, Nexstar Media Group, Inc.’s wholly-owned cable network, has hired Emmy-winning veteran journalist Adrienne Bankert as an anchor-correspondent effective immediately. She will initially cover national affairs and deliver special reports across the network’s primetime weeknight news broadcasts. Later this year, she will begin anchoring a new national newscast, as NewsNation continues moving forward with plans to expand its news programming to all time periods.

As a New York-based national correspondent for ABC News since 2015, Bankert covered breaking news on both the East and West Coast of the United States, and some of the most significant stories of the last decade.

During her tenure at ABC News, Bankert’s stories were featured across all of the network’s broadcast and digital platforms, including Good Morning America, World News Tonight and Nightline.  From 2017 to 2019, she served as part of the weekend anchor team for Good Morning America.

“Adrienne is a great addition to NewsNation — a talented, experienced journalist who has covered breaking news and important national issues and knows how to tell a story in a compelling fashion,” said Sean Compton, President, networks, Nexstar.  “In addition, Adrienne will play a critical role in our plans to expand our news programming even further, assuming anchoring duties on a new national newscast we intend to launch later this year.”

In addition to her journalism career, Bankert also is the author of Your Hidden Superpower: The Kindness that Makes You Unbeatable at Work and Connects You with Anyone.  She graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in communication and media studies.