Antonia Hylton


Antonia Hylton is an American journalist. She is a former correspondent for NBC News and is currently the co-anchor for MS NOW's The Weekend: Primetime. She won two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting.
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Early life and education

Hylton was raised outside Boston, one of seven children. Both of her parents are lawyers. Her aunt is journalist Soledad O'Brien. She was an avid reader growing up, and also performed in choir, musical theater, and was a member of dance groups. In 2015 she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she majored in History and Science and Global Health.

Career

Hylton was hired directly after graduation by Mic.com as a producer and writer for their news shows Flip the Script and Future Present. Hylton met activist Darnell Moore working at Mic. Together they developed the docuseries The Movement with Darnell Moore, about grassroots organizing around the United States. The next year, Hylton joined Vice News Tonight as a correspondent and producer covering civil rights and politics. She reported on topics including gang violence and immigration.
Hylton was a correspondent for the news show The Report on Quibi until the platform shut down. She is currently a reporter for NBC News. In 2021 she became the co-reporter for NBC's Southlake, a podcast about how a group of white students' use of a racial epithet began a cascade of controversy around critical race theory in the suburb of Southlake, Texas. The podcast received accolades including a Peabody Award, a Scripps Howard Award, and it was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting. In 2022 she won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Emerging Journalist.
Hylton has spoken on bias she has experienced as a Black woman reporter. She has also discussed the importance of authenticity in her reporting work. She has served as a judge for the American Mosaic Journalism Prize every year since 2019.
In 2024 Hylton published her debut book, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum, about Crownsville Hospital. The book was a New York Times best seller.
In 2025, it was announced Hylton would depart NBC News to co-host The Weekend: Primetime alongside Ayman Mohyeldin, Catherine Rampell and Elise Jordan, which debuted in May 2025.

Personal life

Hylton was diagnosed with a rare neuroendocrine tumor on her colon when she was 30. She had the tumor removed and the cancer did not spread.

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