Jennifer Jacobs, who grew up in Iowa, worked as a general assignment reporter at The Post-Standard in Syracuse from 1999 to 2004. She covered the 2008, 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns in Iowa for The Des Moines Register, then headed to D.C. to report on the Trump campaign in spring 2016 for Bloomberg News. She’s part of a team that regularly breaks news on the inside story on the White House. Her sons, who both attended kindergarten in Syracuse, are now an Air Force airman and an architect.