Antonia Hylton News Correspondent, NBC

Antonia Hylton is an NBC News correspondent and a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist reporting at the intersection of politics, civil rights, and immigration across all NBC News platforms.In 2021, Hylton co-hosted the #1 hit podcast, Southlake, with co-host Mike Hixenbaugh. Southlake tells the story of how this idyllic city, and its local school board election, became the poster child for a new political strategy with national repercussions. The podcast hit #1 on the podcast charts and was named to numerous lists of the best new podcasts of 2021. Hylton is a Pulitzer Prize Award finalist, Peabody Award winner, Scripps Howard Award winner and a Deadline Club Award winner for the podcast, among other honors. In October 2023, Hylton and Hixenbaugh launch their second podcast together, Grapevine, on the anti-trans movement within Texas schools. From 2016 to 2020, Antonia worked for Vice Media and HBO’s nightly news and documentary show, Vice News Tonight, and launched a podcast with Spotify focused on the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucus. Antonia has won several additional awards, including an Emmy for her development and reporting of an HBO special episode on the family separation crisis, a Gracie Award for her stories about women, a NAMIC Vision Award for reporting on violence and politics in Chicago, and two Front Page Awards for special reporting and breaking news. When she’s not in the field reporting, Antonia mentors other young reporters.