Contessa Brewer Biography
Contessa Brewer is an American Emmy-Award-winning journalist working as a correspondent and substitute anchor for CNBC Business News. She joined the network in 2017.
She reports for CNBC on major news stories such as presidential elections, hurricanes, the coronavirus pandemic, and trade wars. Casinos, the gaming industry, and the insurance industry are some of her specialty coverage areas. Brewer joined CNBC Global Headquarters in 2017 and is based there.
How old is Contessa Brewer? – Age
She is 47 years old as of March 16, 2021. She was born in 1974 in Parsonsfield, Maine, U.S.
Who is Contessa Brewer married to? – Family
Brewer is married to Dan Senor. The couple has twin boys who were born in 2013.
Contessa Brewer Education
Brewer graduated from Hiram, Maine’s Sacopee Valley High School in 1992. She earned a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1996, as well as a Certificate of Contemporary Europe, after studying politics in Strasbourg, France.
Contessa Brewer Career
She hosted daily news programs and the long-running primetime series “Caught on Camera” while working as an anchor for MSNBC. Brewer has worked as a correspondent for CBS News, CBSN, WNBC, NBC News, and MSNBC, where she covered stories such as presidential elections, debt ceilings, government shutdowns, natural disasters, terror attacks, and celebrity news. Reno, Nevada, was her first stop, followed by Palm Springs, California, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
On August 26, 2011, at the end of her regular anchoring hour on MSNBC, Brewer announced that she would no longer be working for the network. Brewer stated that she would continue to host Caught on Camera and report for NBC News, but she would be looking for other opportunities in the future. Brewer began doing weekend fill-in anchor work for WNBC in New York City in March 2012. Brewer became a full-time correspondent and fill-in anchor for CNBC in 2017.
Contessa Brewer Critics
Conservative blogs chastised Brewer in August 2009 for a story about a man carrying an AR-15 rifle at an Obama event in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 17. “You have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns strapped to their waists or to their legs,” Brewer commented after MSNBC was accused of editing the video to hide the man’s race, which was black.