Jenna Bush Hager Joins Today as Contributor

The Today show's newest hire has extensive White House experience—she's Jenna Hager, the daughter of former President Bush and Laura Bush. The new correspondent will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education, not politics, Today executive producer Jim Bell tells the AP, adding that the unsolicited offer wasn't a quid pro quo for an interview with her father. Hager, 27, is a teacher in Baltimore.

"It wasn't something I'd always dreamed to do," she said of the new job, which she'll do out of NBC's Washington bureau while continuing to work as a reading coordinator. "I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do the best job on them—education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy." (More Jenna Bush stories.)