Maggie Vespa
{{Short description|American journalist}}
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Maggie Vespa is an American journalist and a correspondent for NBC News.{{Cite web |last=Vlahos |first=Nick |title=This former Peoria TV reporter is going national as a new NBC News correspondent |url=https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/columns/nick-in-the-morning/2022/03/29/peoria-native-maggie-vespa-becomes-nbc-news-correspondent/7191021001/ |access-date=2024-05-06 |date=March 29, 2022 |website=Journal Star |location=Peoria, Illinois |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331122340/https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/columns/nick-in-the-morning/2022/03/29/peoria-native-maggie-vespa-becomes-nbc-news-correspondent/7191021001/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Turnquist |first=Kristi |date=March 25, 2022 |title=Former KGW-TV reporter Maggie Vespa joins NBC News as a Chicago-based correspondent |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2022/03/former-kgw-reporter-maggie-vespa-joins-nbc-news-and-msnbc-as-chicago-based-correspondent.html |access-date=2024-05-06 |work=The Oregonian |language=en |archive-date=2023-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629162925/https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2022/03/former-kgw-reporter-maggie-vespa-joins-nbc-news-and-msnbc-as-chicago-based-correspondent.html |url-status=live }} Before being hired by NBC, she had worked at KGW, the NBC affiliate station in Portland, Oregon, from 2014 to 2022, and had previously worked for KGUN, in Tucson, Arizona, and at WEEK/WHOI in Peoria, Illinois.{{cite news |last1=Eck |first1=Kevin |title=Portland Reporter Maggie Vespa Leaving KGW in March |url=https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/portland-reporter-maggie-vespa-leaving-kgw-in-march/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |work=Adweek |date=February 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321074757/https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/portland-reporter-maggie-vespa-leaving-kgw-in-march/ |archive-date=March 21, 2023 |url-status=live}}
Personal
Vespa grew up in Peoria, Illinois, and graduated from Dunlap High School. She later graduated from the University of Illinois. In the 1970s, her mother, Kay Vespa, worked as a reporter and anchorperson for a Peoria television station.
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Category:American women television journalists
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