Bankert, Adrienne

Adrienne Bankert currently serves as NewsNation’s special projects anchor where she contributes to a variety of content. Her latest series centered around faith in America entitled “One Nation Under God” will debut in February 2024. Previously, she served as co-anchor of Morning in America alongside Markie Martin. Ms. Bankert joined NewsNation in 2021. 

An Emmy award-winning veteran journalist, Bankert joined NewsNation in April 2021 as an anchor/correspondent. She covered national affairs and delivered special reports across the network’s prime-time weeknight news broadcasts.  

Prior to that, she was a New York-based national correspondent for ABC News covering breaking news on both the East and West Coast. She covered some of the most significant stories of the last decade, including the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the rescue of a youth soccer team trapped in a Thailand cave and the murder of rapper Nipsey Hussle.