She was a reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago from 1996 to 2007, losing her job after a rival TV station broadcast a video of her in a bathing suit with her children at the home of a man she was investigating in connection with his wife's disappearance.
[2] Prior to joining WMAQ-TV, Jacobson worked at WJBK-TV in Detroit, KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas, KOLD-TV in Tucson, Arizona, and, starting in 1992, KSAX-TV in Alexandria, Minnesota.
[6]: 5 In July 2008, Jacobson filed a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit in Cook County against WBBM's parent company CBS Corporation, multiple WBBM-TV staff, a Northwestern University professor who spoke about the footage, and a neighbor of the Stebic home.
[5][7] The lawsuit claimed that "The videotape was carefully edited in an attempt to create the appearance of an ‘illicit’ relationship" and Jacobson said that there were other mothers with children at the home when the video was shot.
[7] The Illinois Appellate Court, sitting as a three-judge panel, rejected the appeal in December 2014, saying that Jacobson was "[a]lready a well-known local personality and high-profile reporter", that she drew further public spotlight during the period after Lisa Stebic's disappearance, and that her closer involvement with the family "invited scrutiny of her methods".
[9] The season 18 episode of Law & Order entitled "Submission," which aired on March 12, 2008, creatively borrowed from events pertaining to the Jacobson story.
[citation needed] Jacobson currently cohosts WIND's morning show with Florida resident Dan Proft.
The son has a nonverbal learning disorder that affects one's physical coordination and ability to read social cues (Chicago Tribune).