The Story Behind the News with Jen Maxfield, Author and Emmy-Award Winning Reporter and Anchor

Jen Maxfield is an Emmy-award winning reporter and anchor at NBC New York with over twenty years of experience. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she teaches broadcast journalism. Maxfield’s first book, More After the Break: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories, will be published by Greenleaf Book Group in July of 2022. More After the Break was an instant Amazon bestseller when it became available for preorders this winter. Her anchoring and reporting were part of NBC-NY’s COVID 19 coverage that was awarded the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award in 2021, recognized as the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.