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Jacob Soboroff is an NBC News Political and National Correspondent. He is the author of the forthcoming book Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster (January 2026) and the New York Times best seller Separated: Inside an American Tragedy. He is also the Executive Producer of Separated, a film based on his book, by Errol Morris. For his reporting on the Trump administration’s child separation policy, Soboroff received the Walter Cronkite Award for Individual Achievement by a National Journalist, the Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism and, in 2024, was named a recipient of the Yale University Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. He is also the recipient of a Ruben Salazar Journalism Award from the California Chicano News Media Association, and was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy® Award for his reporting from Haiti. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Nicole Cari and their two children.