Jacob Soboroff is the Senior Political and National Reporter for MS NOW. 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 an Executive Producer of Separated, the 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.