Tamron has been part of many news publications including Huffington Post, Forbes, Ebony Magazine, and several others. Hall continues to report on crime on Investigation Discovery channel’s Deadline: Crime.

Awards

Tamron’s program The Bottom Line was selected for an Emmy Award. The program first aired in 1998 and was a consumer report program. In October 2010, she won an Emmy for her NBC News segment, The Inauguration of Barack Obama. Another one of her programs, Education Nation: Teacher Town Hall got her an Emmy nomination in 2011.

In 2010, Temple University gave her the Lew Klein Alumni award in the Media category. She won the Edward R. Murrow Award in 2016 for her report on domestic abuse.

Tragedy in the Family

Her sister Renate was killed in 2004 as the result of domestic violence. The officers that were in charge of the case told the family they knew who the murderer was the suspect was never brought to justice. She described the painful and sad day when she received the news of her sister’s death and how she was found lifeless in her own pool with her face down. She expressed her frustration at how she couldn’t help her poor sister. She took part of the blame for her loss. The incident drove her to host Deadline: Crime because of the personal experience she had as a result of domestic violence.

During one of the posts on The Today Show’s blog, she spoke about the fight and struggles she had when talking about her sister and how the murder case has not been solved. At the beginning, she didn’t want to talk about it because she felt people would think that she wanted to gain cheap popularity. She decided she could no longer stay silent and felt it was time to take action.

Personal Life

Hall has never been married even though she is in her 40s. Many people believe that she has a boyfriend, Lawrence O’Donnell, who is sixty years old. They’ve kept their relationship private and haven’t allowed the media to write on details about their relationship. O’Donnell has a daughter and an ex-wife, Kathryn Harrold. Tamron may not be ready to settle down because of her busy work schedule.

Aside from her work as a news anchor, she also works with various charities. She has achieved many things when it comes to her career and more success seems to be on the way.