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  Chloe Melas

  Chloe Melas is an award-winning journalist and on-air correspondent for NBC News, appearing across TODAY, NBC Nightly News, and NBC News Now. Throughout her 17 year career, she has broken major culture and entertainment stories and conducted high-profile, headline-making interviews with some of the world’s most influential leaders and artists, including Sting, Jane Goodall, Jeff Bezos, Oprah, Formula One champion Lando Norris, Richard Branson, Meek Mill, Tom Hanks, Barry Manilow, Natalie Portman, Hugh Jackman and more. While at NBC News, Chloe led the network’s coverage of the Sean Combs criminal trial, and also co-hosted a daily Dateline podcast from outside the courthouse. She also covered the most recent criminal trial of Harvey Weinstein, landing the first sit-down interview with one of the accusers, the rise of AI in Hollywood, the Los Angeles fires as well as big media moments like the battle between Netflix and Paramount for Warner Bros. Chloe has delivered lectures on journalism at Columbia University and her alma mater Auburn University and has led conversations with at some of the world’s most influential forums like: Global Citizen, Town & Country, Create & Cultivate, TIME’S UP, Women of the World, Female Founder Collective, and Collision. Beyond her reporting, Chloe has used her platform to advocate openly for issues that impact families and women. She has spoken publicly about undergoing IVF to have her two children and was the recipient of The National Infertility Association’s Hope Award for Advocacy in 2020. In 2025, following her own experience with a house fire, the American Red Cross honored Chloe for her work bringing national attention to home fire safety by inviting her to turn the Empire State Building red. In addition to her broadcast career, Melas also published her late grandfather’s World War II memoir with St. Martin’s Press, which became a New York Times bestseller, which is also one of the stories used for Apple TV’s “Masters of the Air,” produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. A fierce advocate of our nation’s veterans, she serves on the boards of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force and the 100th Bomb Group Foundation, supporting efforts to preserve and honor World War II history. Chloe lives in New York with her husband, two sons, two dogs and two cats.