Charles Hadlock is a producer and reporter for NBC News.
Hadlock is a contributor to NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, the Today Show and MSNBC programs. He has covered a variety of domestic and international stories, including hurricanes along the Gulf coast, the Israeli-Hezbollah war, the bird flu epidemic in Southeast Asia, and the North Korean nuclear talks in Beijing.
His distinguished career spans more than 25 years of broadcast reporting in Texas. As Senior Reporter and weekend anchor at KHOU TV in Houston, Hadlock was named Austin Bureau Chief and covered assignments throughout Texas, Mexico and Central America.
Hadlock is a reporter with an abiding concern for telling visual stories through ordinary people.
Hadlock has also been a main anchor in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was the first television journalist to report live by satellite from the Shuttle Columbia disaster in East Texas. His assignments included reporting live from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on local soldiers guarding Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners. Hadlock reported live from Canada on Pope John Paul II’s pilgrimage to North America. He also produced and moderated a nationally-televised debate between the U-S Senate candidates in Louisiana.
United Press International and the Associated Press have both honored Hadlock as the Best Reporter in Texas. UPI twice named him one of the top six reporters in the country. His work appeared in almost every NPPA (National Press Photographer’s Association) Quarterly Contest in Region Eight.
The Dallas Press Club awarded Hadlock the Texas Katie Award for General News and UPI awarded him Best Feature. He is also the winner of the prestigious Texas Headliners Award. Hadlock was nationally honored with the Leukemia Society of America’s Service to Mankind Award.
He also worked at Houston’s KPRC TV as a general assignment reporter. He started there the same week as a young NPPA cameraman from Kansas named Jerry Hattan. It was the beginning of a long, professional friendship. While at KPRC, Hadlock won state and national awards for spot news.
Hadlock was a reporter and morning news anchor at WFAA TV in Dallas. His coverage of the Paris, Texas tornado won him the Texas Katie Award for Spot News and helped WFAA win NPPA Station of the Year.
Hadlock is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He has been on the faculty of the NPPA TV News Video Workshop since 1987.