Christine Negroni Biography
Christine Negroni is an American aviation and travel writer whose work has appeared in magazines such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Fortune, and others. She is an ABC News on-air contributor and the author of the aviation-themed blog Flying Lessons. Negroni began her career as a journalist in 1978.
Christine Negroni Age
She was born Lorie Christine Negroni on December 19, 1956, in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Lorie is 66 years old as of December 2022.
Christine Negroni Parents
Negroni was born and raised in Miami, Florida, United States of America. She is the daughter of Jaime Negroni and Dione Negroni Hendrick.
Christine Negroni Husband
She is happily married to her husband Jim Schembari, an editor at The New York Times. They have four children.
Christine Negroni Career
Negroni began her career as a journalist in 1978. She was an on-air broadcast journalist for WMAZ Macon, Georgia, and KSLA Shreveport, Louisiana, as well as New Jersey Nightly News in Newark and Trenton, New Jersey, WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut, and WGN in Chicago. From 1993 through 1999, she worked for CNN in New York. She has received honors from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmy nomination), the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi, and the Associated Press. Negroni worked as a correspondent for CBS in Atlanta, New York, and Chicago from 1988 until 1991. Her work was shown on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. She was a regular on the award-winning Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt.
Negroni joined CNN as a New York-based journalist in 1993, where she established the network’s aviation beat, where she reported exclusives on travel and aviation topics. Negroni’s book, Deadly Departure: Why Experts Failed To Prevent The TWA Flight 800 Disaster And How It Could Happen Again, was released by HarperCollins in 2000. According to the New York Times, it is a “well-written, well-researched chronicle of events surrounding the crash of Flight 800.” Negroni worked as the Director of Investigations for the New York aviation law firm Kreindler & Kreindler from 2001 to 2008. She was in charge of coordinating the factual components for a civil complaint against the financial backers of the September 11th attacks. She also investigated liability concerns originating from commercial and private jet crashes.
From 2000 to 2005, Negroni represented the flying public as a voting member of a Federal Aviation Administration rulemaking advisory committee on aging aircraft systems. She was named to the National Transportation Safety Board by President Barack Obama in 2009. She is a member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators and has presented papers on the overuse of emergency helicopter ambulances in the United States, airline flags of convenience as a global security and safety issue, and evaluating the effectiveness of human factors in aviation safety. Negroni has been invited to speak at industry conferences on airport ground handling safety (Vancouver 2007) and crisis communications (Istanbul 2014) by the International Air Transport Association.
Negroni has been writing on experience travel, transportation, and aircraft for newspapers, periodicals, online, and broadcast publications since 2003. The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Macleans, Seattle PI, Air & Space, WAG Wanders, RunwayGirlNetwork, and Travel + Leisure are among the media featured. Negroni works at ABC News as an aviation safety expert. She is a frequent guest aviation and travel expert on television documentaries.
Christine Negroni Net Worth
Negroni has an estimated net worth of 1 million USD dollars.