Norah O’Donnell Biography
A native of Washington, D.C., United States, Norah O’Donnell is a famous American television journalist who is presently a journalist for 60 Minutes and an anchor of the CBS Evening News.
Norah O’Donnell Age
O’Donnell is 48 years old as of 2022. She was born on 23 January 1974 in Washington, D.C., United States. She celebrates her birthdate on 23 January every year.
Norah O’Donnell Height
O’Donnell stands at a height of 5 ft 8 inches(1.78 m)tall. She weighs around 55 Kg or 121 lbs.
Norah O’Donnell Education
While an elementary student, O’Donnell began her career in broadcasting by giving videotaped English lessons for the Korean Educational Development Institute. The family moved back to San Antonio, where she attended Douglas MacArthur High School, from which she graduated in 1991.
She then went on to attend Georgetown University, where she graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and a Master of Arts degree in liberal studies in 2003.
Norah O’Donnell Family
O’Donnell was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Noreen Bernadette (O’Kane) and Francis Lawrence O’Donnell, a doctor, and US Army officer. Her parents are both of Irish descent, with roots in Donegal, Belfast, and Derry (meaning she is descended from both sides of the Irish Border).
Three of her grandparents were immigrants, and her maternal grandfather lived in the U.S. illegally for 16 years. When she was three, her family moved to San Antonio, Texas. When she was 10, the family spent two years in Seoul, living in Yongsan Garrison as her father was transferred to work there. She also has one sister Mary and two brothers, Frank and Matthew.
Norah O’Donnell Husband
O’Donnell lives in Washington, D.C., and New York City’s Upper West Side neighborhood with her husband, restaurateur Geoff Tracy (owner of D.C. restaurant Chef Geoff’s), whom she married in June 2001. They met while attending Georgetown together.
On May 20, 2007, O’Donnell and Tracy became the parents of twins, whom they named Grace and Henry. Their third child, daughter Riley Norah Tracy, was born on July 5, 2008; O’Donnell noted that her daughter’s first name had been proposed by Tim Russert, who died three weeks earlier to Riley’s birth.
O’Donnell and Tracy made a cookbook for parents titled Baby Love: Healthy, Easy, Delicious Meals for Your Baby and Toddler, released on August 31, 2010.
Norah O’Donnell Net Worth
O’Donnell has an estimated net worth of $22 million.
Norah O’Donnell NBC Networks
O’Donnell started her career as a staff writer for Roll Call where her writings were on Congress. She was with NBC Networks for 12 years.
Here she used to be a Chief Washington Correspondent for MSNBC and the host of the Today Show. O’Donnell served as a White House Journalist for NBC News. She contributed to anchoring MSNBC Live and also was a host for Weekend Today. She served as a correspondent for several of their news show.
60 Minutes Norah O’Donnell
O’Donnell is a supporter of CBS’s 60 minutes. She has anchored the main interviews in the show including holding an interview with Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Bill Biden decided not to run for the presidency in 2016.
Norah O’Donnell CBS News
Prior to working at CBS News, Norah had worked at NBC News. She has been associated with NBC News and MSNBC from the year 1999 to 2011. In this period she has picked up and encountered a great deal of learning and prevalence so as to be a fruitful one in the field.
For over the entire time frame, she has been the Washington Bureau Journalist, MSNBC Live fill-in stay and Weekend Today pivoting News grapple.
From 2000-to 2011, she filled in as the Dateline NBC contributing correspondent. From 2003 to 2011, she functioned as the NBC News White House reporter, and from 2005-to 2011 she filled in as the Chief White House journalist.
Later on, she moved to CBS News at first as the Chief White House reporter and later tied down the shows CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning and Face the Nation.
For her works, she has been appreciated just as condemned. She has been the champ of the Sigma Delta Chi Award for the Breaking News inclusion in the “DC in Crisis” story from the Dateline NBC just as the victor of an Emmy grant for the NBC News Election Night inclusion in 2008.
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