Perfect Casting

NBC News correspondent and news anchor Craig Melvin was raised “in a house where there was always talking, of talking.” So it’s no surprise to him that he finds himself in conversation for a living, bringing to his coverage a warmth and sincerity he attributes to his upbringing in South Carolina, where storytelling was a way of life and his mother rarely ended a chat with a stranger in under fifteen minutes. Melvin, who also cohosts the third hour of , shares his mother’s welcoming loquaciousness and his father’s wry curiosity, and notes that even though he now lives with his wife and two young children in Connecticut, he brings his family to Columbia every chance he gets. There, he happily slips back into his full