Sheinelle Marie Jones is an American journalist and a news anchor working for NBC news. She is the anchor of the Saturday edition of ‘Weekend Today’ and also a correspondent for every segment at NBC news. Apart from these, she appears as a news anchor and an Orange Room anchor on weekdays.
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Early life and background
Sheinelle Jones was born on 16th April 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of the respected US district court Judge C. Darnell Jones II and Sheilla Kinnard. In the beginning, Jones attended Wichita Brooks Middle Magnet School and Wichita Heights High School both located at Wichita Kansas. Later, she completed her education from Northwestern University in Chicago Illinois. She was exceptionally mischievous due to which she used to get reprimanded many a time.
Career
No sooner she left college than Sheinelle started her career in the field of television journalism with WICS-TV at Spring field, Illinois. There, Sheinelle worked for quite a few years and gained a good experience in television. As the years passed, Sheinelle worked with various other news organizations like KOKI-TV, the FOC offshoot in Tulsa and WTXF-TV, which is owned by the FOX O&O in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At WTXF-TV, Sheinelle spend nine years working successfully with immense contribution as a journalist. Success was glowing in her life, television career was booming and then the massive victorious blow came when she joined NBC as a news anchor.
There at NBC, Jones became successful in various roles like as a news anchor, reporter and also an indoor studio commentator. The company became highly impressed with her work and granted her various roles for different popular programs in the channel. Jones is still now associated with NBC and immensely contributes towards the welfare of the organization.
Sheinelle Jones – Height
The petite news anchor is just 4 feet 11 inch tall. She is one of the shortest TV journalists in the world.
Sheinelle Jones – Husband and Children
Sheinelle Jones got married to Uche Ojeh in the year 2007. Later the couple were blessed with three children. Both Jones and Ojeh are actually very deeply devoted into their married life, with no reports of divorce or discord. The entire family spends good times together by going to shopping or travels around to different places. Jones is very active in the social network platform and constantly uploads her family photos at Instagram.
Though Jones is a part of the media world where there is no such time fixation, she is known to maintain efficient work-life balance. She is known to be a doting mother and a loving wife.
Sheinelle Jones – Salary and Net Worth
Sheinelle Jones is reported to earn quite a heavy amount from her pay roll at NBC and MSNBC. Her salary is close to $1 million. According to a report, it is estimated that her net worth is around $23 million.
