Cynthia McFadden Biography
Cynthia McFadden is a well-known television journalist who presently serves as NBC News’ senior legal and investigative correspondent. She was an ABC News anchor and journalist who co-anchored Nightline and appeared on the ABC News special Primetime on occasion. She worked for ABC News from 1994 to 2014 before joining NBC News in March 2014.
Cynthia McFadden Age
She was born on May 27, 1956, in Lewiston, Maine, United States of America. Cynthia is 67 years old as of May 2023.
Cynthia McFadden Education
McFadden graduated with honors from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1978. In 1984, she got her Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School in New York City.
Cynthia McFadden Married- Husband- Son
On September 9, 1989, McFadden married Michael John Davies, editor and publisher of the Hartford Courant; they divorced in 1996. Spencer Graham McFadden Hoge, her son with Foreign Affairs editor James Hoge, was born in 1998 and named after actor Spencer Tracy.
Cynthia McFadden NBC News- Career
McFadden was the executive producer of Fred Friendly’s Media and Society seminars at Columbia University from 1984 through 1991, several of which were broadcast on PBS. She then became an anchor and producer for the Courtroom Television Network in 1991, its first year of operation. After several years there, she joined ABC News in 1994 as the network’s legal correspondent, covering the O. J. Simpson trial among other things.McFadden joined Primetime in 2004 and, after filling in for Ted Koppel on multiple occasions, became an anchor of Nightline on November 28, 2005, alongside Martin Bashir and Terry Moran, following the longtime anchor’s final program.
As anchor, McFadden held a number of notable interviews, including those with Clint Eastwood, Paul McCartney, Judge Judy Sheindlin, Pervez Musharraf, and Tony Blair, as well as five with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. McFadden left ABC News on March 29, 2014, following two decades with the network, the last nine years as a Nightline anchor. She is the senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News, where she contributes to the investigative unit across all NBC News platforms. McFadden contributes to wowOwow.com, a website for women to discuss culture, politics, and gossip that began in 2008. She has also hosted or co-hosted a number of ABC documentaries and specials. She is a member of the IWMF (International Women’s Media Foundation) board of directors.
She is the executor of her old friend and actress Katharine Hepburn’s estate. McFadden practices Transcendental Meditation and has contributed to the David Lynch Foundation’s activities. McFadden and her son Spencer penned an account of their road trip from New York City to California, where he was a student, for Town and Country magazine in October 2020. The account explained the concessions they were forced to make as a result of the Covid 19 virus. Spencer, who grew up in New York City, had never learned to drive before moving to California. McFadden enticed him to get his license by offering him a new car.
Cynthia McFadden’s Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.