Nikole Killion

Nikole Killion is a congressional correspondent for CBS News based in Washington, D.C. She reports across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including the "CBS Evening News," "CBS Mornings" and CBS News 24/7.

Killion joined the congressional beat in 2021 and has covered some of the biggest stories on Capitol Hill since then, including the confirmation process for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the motion to vacate former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the January 6th committee hearings.

Killion has also served a key role in CBS News' election coverage, delivering on-the-ground reporting from locations across the country during the 2024 and 2020 presidential races covering the Trump, Biden, and Harris campaigns. She also led coverage of the pivotal U.S. Senate race and runoff election in Georgia during the 2022 midterms. In 2019, she conducted one of the first interviews with both Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez following her endorsement of Sanders in the 2020 presidential primary.

As a CBS News correspondent based in Washington, Killion reported on Virginia's 2019 political crisis, the impeachments of President Donald Trump, the Mueller Report and the 2018-19 partial government shutdown. She also traveled around the country to report on breaking news events, including Hurricanes Michael and Dorian and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. She joined CBS News in 2018 as a correspondent for CBS Newspath, the network's 24-hour newsgathering service for CBS affiliates and international broadcasters.

Killion was previously a Washington correspondent for Hearst Television, where she interviewed former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, covered the papal visits of Pope Francis and Pope Benedict to the United States, and reported on the opioid crisis for "Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien."

Prior to her years at Hearst, Killion was an anchor and reporter for WJLA-TV and NewsChannel 8 in Washington, D.C. and WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, Maryland. She began her career at NBC News in New York.

Killion graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She is a member of the White House Correspondents' Association and the National Association of Black Journalists.