Jon Decker Biography
Jon Decker is a White House correspondent and an American journalist. He has been a member of the White House press corps since 1995 and is a Gray Television correspondent. From 2014 to 2021, Decker was the White House correspondent for Fox News Radio. He has also worked as a White House correspondent for SiriusXM’s “White House Insider” program and for a number of other news outlets.
How old is Jon Decker? – Age
He is 55 years old as of 18 October 2021. He was born in 1966 in Washington, D.C., United States.
Jon Decker Education
Decker attended the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School before working as a financial analyst for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company on Wall Street. Decker worked as an aide to U.S. Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania after leaving Wall Street, while also pursuing his master’s degree in International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jon Decker Career
Jon has worked as a White House correspondent for Fox News Radio, Reuters Television, and SiriusXM Radio, as well as a Washington correspondent for PBS Television’s “Nightly Business Report,” the host of PBS Television’s “This Week in Business,” a business reporter for the NBC affiliate in Washington (WRC), and a field producer for NBC in Miami. He worked as a Media Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and as an advisor to the late U.S. Senator John Heinz. Jon, who was born in Washington, DC, obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees with Honors from the University of Pennsylvania and received a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. He also went to the Sorbonne in Paris to study international law.
Jon has covered the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, as well as 26 State of the Union Addresses, seven presidential elections, and both Clinton and Trump’s impeachments. He has covered some of the most important causes of the last two decades at the Supreme Court, including Bush v. Gore, NFIB v. Sebelius, which challenged the legality of the Affordable Care Act, and Windsor v. the United States, a landmark civil rights case involving same-sex marriage. Jon has also covered all four Grand Slam tennis tournaments and worked as a Tennis Channel commentator. He is also a member of the Washington Tennis & Education Foundation’s Board of Directors and the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s Board of Governors.
Jon has reported from Athens, Brussels, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Geneva, The Hague, Stockholm, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the West Bank, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Montreal, Panama, Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Singapore, Seoul, the DMZ, Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Havana, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, over the last two decades. Jon has been described as “refreshingly self-aware for a reporter” by the Columbia Journalism Review.
Jon Decker Salary
He earns an annual salary of $200 thousand.
Jon Decker Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.