Susan Candiotti Biography
Susan Jo Candiotti is an American journalist who works as a national correspondent for CNN. Candiotti began working as a national correspondent for CNN in 1994, based in Miami. She has covered several high-profile national events, including the 9/11 attacks in New York City and the 1999-2000 Elian Gonzalez saga.
Susan Candiotti Age
Susan was born on 6 December 1953, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America. She is 70 years old as of December 2023.
Susan Candiotti Education
Candiotti graduated with honors from Loyola University Chicago after spending a year studying abroad at the university’s John Felice Rome Center.
Susan Candiotti Husband
She is happily married to her husband.
Susan Candiotti CNN
She is currently employed by CNN as a national correspondent. In 1994, Candiotti began working for CNN as a national correspondent out of its Miami headquarters. She covered a number of high-profile national topics, such as the New York City 9/11 tragedy and the 1999–2000 Elian Gonzalez case.
Susan Candiotti Career
She covered the Iran-Contra scandal while employed as an investigative reporter for Miami local stations. Additionally, Candiotti has worked for television networks in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Binghamton, New York, and Buffalo, New York. She covered several high-profile national stories, such as the 1998 deadly Capitol shooting rampage in Washington, D.C., the 1999 James Byrd dragging-death trial in Jasper, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the trials of convicted co-conspirators Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh that followed. Additionally, Candiotti covered McVeigh’s execution in 2001 and conducted an interview with him when he was incarcerated. She has also covered breaking news in Peru, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, and Haiti. She reported on the 1996 Japanese Embassy hostage crisis involving Tupac Amaru in Peru.
She also stayed in Montana for over two months after Freeman and the FBI got into a standoff in 1996. She covered Theodore Kaczynski’s extradition as an accused Unabomber when she was in Montana. Candiotti reported the 1996 TWA Flight 800 disaster, the 2000 EgyptAir Flight 990 catastrophe, and the Valujet Flight 592 crash in the Florida Everglades in 1996. She provided live coverage of Hurricane Gustav in 2008; during one event, she revealed her cell phone number via a live satellite feed that viewers with a satellite dish could watch even though it wasn’t broadcast on television.
Susan Candiotti Net Worth
Jo has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.