Mark Lima, vice president and Washington bureau chief at CBS News, sent out the following on Monday:
Hi everyone,
I’m thrilled to share that award-winning journalist Jennifer Jacobs is joining CBS News today as a senior reporter at the White House. She joins us as we continue our coverage of the transition between administrations and as we prepare for Inauguration Day. Jennifer will be a key member of our White House unit as we continue our coverage on the White House beat.
Jennifer joins us from Bloomberg News where she has covered the White House since the tail end of the Obama administration in 2016. She regularly broke news ahead of competitors, including her reporting on the fall of 2020 that exposed the coronavirus outbreak among dozens of Trump administration officials, Republican senators and close advisors. Prior to Bloomberg News she was the chief politics reporter at The Des Moines Register covering presidential and local politics.
In 2021, Jennifer was awarded the 34th annual Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for distinguished reporting on the presidency, and has been honored by the National Press Club, Deadline Club, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, among others. In 2023, she was also recognized by her alma mater Iowa State University with the Carrie Chapman Catt Public Engagement Award for outstanding achievement for her work at the national level.
As some of you know, Jennifer has two sons: an Air Force airman and an architect. When she’s not chasing news, she’d like for us to know she’s usually in search of a remote gravel road or steep forest trail to bike.
Please join me in welcoming Jennifer.
Thank you,
Mark
Jacobs left Bloomberg News earlier this year after a story she wrote on the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was published before he had reached safety. Jacobs vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
