Ellison Litton Barber[1] is an American journalist and correspondent for NBC News. She frequently reports from conflict zones and contributes reporting to all NBC News platforms, including NBC News, MSNBC and NBC News Now.[2]
Barber spent months on the ground reporting on the war in Ukraine[3] and was among the first group of international correspondents to report on the Israel-Hamas War in 2023.[4][5]
At WUSA, Barber reported on an array of stories,[35][36][37] including the 2015 Washington, D.C., mass killing of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, the March 2016 U.S. Capitol lockdown,[38] and the protests following the shooting of Terrence Sterling.[39][40]
In April 2017, she joined Fox News as a general assignment correspondent.[40][41]
In 2019, Barber reported on the political turmoil in Venezuela and the resulting refugee crisis in neighboring countries.[42][43] She and her crew were reporting on the Venezuela-Colombia border when gunfire erupted near the Simón Bolívar International Bridge[44] and a thirty-minute shootout ensued.[45][46][47] Barber was also the first reporter for a U.S.-based English-language network to travel to Maicao, Colombia and cover the UNHCR assistance camp set up to help refugees fleeing the political crisis in Venezuela.[48]
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^Miles, Frank (2019-05-06). "Venezuelans risk death trying to cross into Colombia escaping violence, hunger, Fox News finds". Fox News. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
^Barber, Ellison (2019-05-08). "Face of Venezuela crisis: Fox News goes inside camp taking in refugees fleeing Maduro regime". Fox News. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
^Fox News (2019-05-03), Shots heard near Venezuela-Colombia border, retrieved 2019-05-31
^"Venezuelans face dangerous trek into Colombia". Fox News. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
^"Crisis in Venezuela: UN sets up refugee camp in Maicao, Colombia". Fox News. 7 May 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
^"TV reporter does story on D.C. snow storm, runs into Alex Ovechkin". NBC Sports Washington. 2016-01-22. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
^"How WUSA9's Ellison Barber Lucked Into a Man-On-The-Street Interview with Alex Ovechkin". russianmachineneverbreaks.com. 2016-02-08. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
^"Ovechkin wasn't fazed by snowstorm: 'We're from Russia'". FOX Sports. 2016-01-24. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
^BroBible (23 January 2016). "Unsuspecting Reporter Comes Across Alex Ovechkin Filling His Gas Tank Ahead Of The Blizzard". BroBible. Retrieved 2019-01-25.