Background
Jansing was born to a Roman Catholic family in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, the youngest of 12 children of Joseph and Tilly Kapostasy.
Jansing was born to a Roman Catholic family in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, the youngest of 12 children of Joseph and Tilly Kapostasy.
In 1978, she graduated from Otterbein College in Ohio.
She currently works for National Broadcasting Company News as their Senior White House Correspondent. From 2010 to 2014, she hosted an Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company show called Jansing and Company. She is of Hungarian and Slovak descent.
Originally a political science major, Jansing switched majors to broadcast journalism after working for the college radio station.
After college, she worked as an intern at a cable station in Columbus, Ohio and then accepted a job for a short stint at radio station WIPS in Ticonderoga, New New York She then accepted a position as a general assignment reporter for WNYT television in Albany, New York where she quickly rose to become the weekend anchor and then the weekly co-anchor. She stayed at WNYT for 17 years.
Jansing joined National Broadcasting Company News in June 1998. She has since anchored and reported for Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, and has been a substitute anchor for The Today Show, and the Sunday version of National Broadcasting Company Nightly News.
In 2008, she relocated to Los Angeles and worked as a field reporter for two years before returning as an anchor in 2010.
Chris Jansing previously anchored the 10am hour on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company weekdays on Jansing and Company, with Richard Lui regularly serving as a correspondent and substitute anchor. The show ended on June 13, 2014 when Jansing became National Broadcasting Company"s Senior White House Correspondent.