Upbringing

She was brought up by her mother, Mary Newton, and her stepfather, Clarence Newton Sr. Nothing is known about her biological father. Her stepfather was caring, loving, and kind to her. He came into her life after her parents got divorced when she was only 8 years old. At first, she did not like him because she wanted her parents to be together again.

Clarence ended up being a great father to Tamron. According to her, he was the one that inspired her to become a journalist. He instilled the idea in her ever since her childhood days.

After completing elementary and high school, she enrolled at Temple University. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism.

Journalism Career

Tamron first worked as general assignment reporter at KBTX, a college station in Texas. She then moved to KTVT in Dallas, Texas and worked there from 1997 to 2007. Following that, she went to WFLD-TV in Chicago. Since she was a Chicago resident, she often reported on Chicago’s political issues. She also worked with MSNBC as their general reporter and fill-in anchor.

She gained prominence as a replacement for Keith Olberman in the Countdown with Keith Olberman .Tamron later partnered with David Shuster and they both co-hosted a program together. She appeared in the Big Picture which premiered in June 2009 and ended in January 2010.

She got her own show called News Nation with Tamron Hall. She became the primary substitute for news anchor with Natalie Morales on The Today Show.

She became the host of a show called Crime with Tamron Hall. It started in September 2013, and is a weekly news show that explores the occurrence of crimes. The show covered the discovery and investigation of various crimes. Hall and her team tried to go deeper in order to uncover and understand how these crimes takes place. Tamron said that the show was dedicated to her elder sister who died in 2004 and the incident was concluded to be a homicide, but was never resolved. During the show, she interviewed psychological experts, prosecutors, and detectives to understand how criminals think and why they do what they do.

The Investigation Discovery premiered a special in the summer of 2016 called Guns on Campus: Tamron Hall Investigates. The special was about the 50th anniversary of the tower shooting at the University of Texas at Austin.

In a famous interview with the Washington Post, Hall explained what it meant to be “Unapologetically” black and American, “When I say that I unapologetically love this country, you can love something or someone, and see all of their flaws, and see all of their beauty at the same time. That’s love. That’s the unconditional love of this country that my father fought for. As black Americans, whether it’s through the Black Panther movement, whether it’s the civil rights movement, we’ve been painted as being un-American. The fact of it is, there are American laws that have been used to oppress us, but we still love this country When Colin Kaepernick takes a knee, why can’t we say that is not against America, and listen to what he has to say? You may not agree with it, but to drape yourself in the flag and say he’s a bad, evil guy, that’s just to me wrong.”