Barber served as a general assignment reporter and the
Prince George's County Deputy Bureau Chief for Washington's
CBS affiliate,
WUSA. At WUSA, Barber reported on an array of stories, including the
2015 Washington, D.C., mass killing of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, the March 2016 U.S. Capitol lockdown, and the protests following the shooting of Terrence Sterling. The unintentional encounter went viral.
Fox News (2017-2020) In April 2017, she joined
Fox News as a general assignment correspondent. In 2019, Barber reported on the
political turmoil in Venezuela and the resulting
refugee crisis in neighboring countries. She and her crew were reporting on the Venezuela-Colombia border when gunfire erupted near the
Simón Bolívar International Bridge and a thirty-minute shootout ensued. Barber was also the first reporter for a U.S.-based English-language network to travel to
Maicao, Colombia and cover the
UNHCR assistance camp set up to help refugees fleeing the political crisis in Venezuela.
NBC News (2020-present) Barber joined NBC News as a New York-based correspondent on April 15, 2020. She extensively reported on the
2019-20 coronavirus pandemic in the United States. She reported inside COVID ICUs across the country, filing reports from Alaska to Mississippi. Much of her career at NBC has been spent as a
war correspondent covering conflicts around the globe. She reported from the frontlines of the
Ukraine-Russia War and the
Gaza war. Barber reported from Haiti following the
2024 Haitian jailbreak and the ouster of then-Acting President
Ariel Henry. == Accolades ==