Mara Liasson Biography
Mara Liasson is a well known political commentator and journalist from the United States. She is NPR’s national political correspondent and a Fox News Channel contributor.
How old is Mara Liasson? – Age
She is 66 years old as of 13 June 2021. She was born in 1955 in New York, New York, United States.
Mara Liasson Family – Education
Liasson was born into a Jewish family in New York City. She grew up in Scarsdale, New York, and attended Scarsdale High School before graduating in 1973. Furthermore, while attending Scarsdale High School, she was one of a few students who helped to found the Scarsdale Alternative School, an experimental democratic community that still exists today. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in American history from Brown University (class of 1977).
Mara Liasson Wife
She is married to Jonathan Cuneo, a partner at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca.
Mara Liasson Career
Her reports can be heard on NPR’s award-winning newsmagazine programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered on a regular basis. She covers politics and policy from Washington, DC, with a focus on the White House and Congress, as well as reporting on political trends outside the Beltway. Every election year, Liasson covers the candidates and issues in both the presidential and congressional races. She has covered seven presidential elections during her career: 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016. Prior to her current position, Liasson served as NPR’s White House correspondent for the entire eight-year tenure of President Bill Clinton.
She received the Merriman Smith Award for daily news coverage from the White House Correspondents’ Association in 1994, 1995, and 1997. She worked as NPR’s congressional correspondent from 1989 to 1992. She joined NPR as a general assignment reporter and newscaster in 1985. She took a leave of absence from NPR from September 1988 to June 1989 to attend Columbia University in New York as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism. She worked as a freelance radio and television reporter in San Francisco before joining NPR. She was also the managing editor and anchor of California Edition, a nightly news program on California Public Radio, and a print journalist for The Vineyard Gazette in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Mara Liasson Salary
She has an annual salary of $55,000.
Mara Liasson Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3million.