Chris Jose

Chris Jose is an Emmy® Award-winning reporter for NBC 4 New York. He appears weeknights covering New York City’s top headlines. In his addition to his duties in the city and the tri-state, Jose has traveled around the country to report for NBC stations on mass shootings including in Maine, Buffalo, and Nashville. Prior to joining WNBC-TV in April 2022, Jose was a reporter for WSB-TV in Atlanta where he covered some of the southeast’s biggest stories including the metro Atlanta spa shootings. He delivered continuous live updates during hurricanes and tornado outbreaks, and consistently landed exclusives on high-profile crime cases. Before moving to Atlanta, he worked at KXAS-TV in Dallas, Texas, KDVR-TV in Denver, Colorado and KGAN-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He got his start in local television at KGWN-TV in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Throughout his career, Jose has contributed many national live reports including the 2012 Aurora Theater shooting in Colorado, the 2016 Dallas police attack, the historic Colorado wildfires and President Trump’s immigration ban on Muslim countries. He has also covered several sports championships including a World Series, the College Football National Championship, a Rose Bowl and a Super Bowl. Jose is a graduate of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. In his free time, he enjoys exploring the tri-state area with his wife and twin children and is an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association.