Dana Jacobson Biography
Dana Jacobson is a CBS News host and correspondent who currently co-hosts CBS Saturday Morning. She is also a CBS Sports and CBS Sports Network anchor and reporter. She began working for CBS News in 2015.
How old is Dana Jacobson?- Age
She is 52 years old as of November 2023. Dana was born on 5 November 1971, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States of America.
Dana Jacobson Height- Weight
Dana stands at a height of 5 ft 11 inches and weighs 59 kg.
Dana Jacobson Family- Education
Jacobson was raised in the Detroit suburbs by a Jewish family and attended Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She then went on to Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, where she graduated in 1989. Jacobson earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and communications from the University of Michigan in 1993 and was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority.
Dana Jacobson Husband
She has not gone public with her relationship. However, It is not known whether she is married, engaged, divorced, or single.
Dana Jacobson Career
She joined CBS News in 2015, two years after starting at CBS Sports Network. Prior to that, Jacobson worked for ESPN from 2002 to 2012. She was named co-host of Cold Pizza in March 2005, and she transitioned with the show as it became First Take. On December 30, 2011, she left First Take to return to SportsCenter as an anchor. Jacobson announced her departure from ESPN on March 27, 2012, when her contract expired at the end of April. Her final day at ESPN was Monday, April 30, 2012, when she hosted the 6-8 p.m. ET SportsCenter. Jacobson and long-time CBS correspondent Michelle Miller were named the new Saturday co-hosts of CBS This Morning in July 2018.
Her first television job was at WPBN/WTOM-TV in Traverse City, Michigan, where she worked for two years as a fill-in news anchor and weekend sports anchor, producer, and editor. In Northern California, I covered a variety of stories, including profiles of former Sacramento Kings players Mike Bibby, Chris Webber, and Jason Williams. As a weekend sports anchor at KXTV-TV, ABC’s Sacramento affiliate station (1998-02), I covered a wide range of professional sports, including the NFL and NBA. KXTV’s News10 Red Zone was hosted. From 1996 to 1998, I worked as a sports reporter for KXTV’s Monday Night Football show.
KHTK-AM’s The NBA Insiders, a weekly two-hour radio show (2000-02). During the 2005 holiday season, I filled in for Dan Patrick on his ESPN Radio show, which aired weekdays from 1pm to 4pm Eastern time. On the ESPN Radio show Mike and Mike in the Morning, I occasionally filled in for Mike Golic. Working for CBS Sports and CBS Sports Network now. She is a frequent contributor to NFL Today and the host of CBS’s We Need To Talk. She was inducted into the Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation’s Hall of Fame in October 2018
Dana Jacobson Net Worth
Dana has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.
