Norah O’Donnell is an American television and print journalist who is best known as the morning co-host for the CBS show called, “This Morning”. She also previously worked as a white house correspondent for CBS News in Washington D.C.
Norah, age 44, also substitutes for the CBS’s Sunday morning show Face the Nation. Let’s get to know Journalist personal life, career, and net worth.
Norah O’Donnell: early life, career, and nationality
Norah O’Donnell was born on January 23, 1974, in Washington, D.C., the U.S which makes her nationality an American. She was born to parents both of them who were of Irish descent. Despite her birth in Washington, Norah moved to Texas at the age of 3 along with her family. Later when she was 10 years old, she along with her family spent two years in Seoul as her father was assigned to live there. After two years they moved back to Texas, where she went to the Douglas MacArthur High School. O’Donnell then received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy followed by a master’s degree in liberal studies from Georgetown University.
Norah O’Donnell first started out her career as a writer for Roll Call. However, she moved to her TV career when she joined as a commentator in Today’s show then in MSNBC. Similarly, she then served as a white house correspondent for NBC news for two years. Norah has also additionally filled in for many hosts and shows like Chris Mathews and Scot Pelley respectively. Finally, in the year 2012, Norah became the co-anchor on CBS replacing Erica Hill. In addition, the journalist also appeared in the series, “Blue Blood” starring Will Estes as herself in some of the episodes of the show.
Norah O’Donnell: personal life and husband
O’ Donell’s personal life is almost perfect. A loving husband, three children, and a happy family. She seems to have it all! She married her husband Geoff Tracy who is also the owner of D.C. restaurant Chef Geoff’s in the year 2001. After six years of their marriage, the couple had their first children; their twins Grace and Henry born in May 2007. Their third child was born a year later in 2008, a daughter they named Riley Norah Tracy.
Norah O’Donnell net worth
O’ Donnell has surely achieved a lot through her career. Speaking of which, she won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Breaking News Coverage on NBC story “DC In Crisis”. She has also received some criticism for her work from journalists like Glenn Beck. Leaving all behind, O’Donnell has a net worth estimation of $8 million.
O’Donnell is also active on her social media profiles like Instagram and Twitter. She has around 65k followers on her Instagram account. One more thing you should know about her is that the CBS presenter is also a health freak.