Margaret Brennan Biography
Margaret Brennan is a Washington, D.C.-based American journalist who is the current moderator of CBS News’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan and the network’s chief foreign affairs correspondent. Brennan previously worked as a White House correspondent for CBS and has been covering Washington since 2012.
How old is Margaret Brennan? – Age
Brennan is 41 years old as of 26 March 2021. She was born in 1980 in Stamford, Connecticut, United States.
Margaret Brennan Family
She was born in Pennsbury, Pennsylvania, to Edward Brennan and Jane Brennan, both elementary school art and art history teachers.
Margaret Brennan Husband
Brennan married Yado Yakub, a Syrian-American attorney and judge advocate in the United States Marine Corps, in 2015. Brennan announced her pregnancy with their first child, a boy, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 30, 2018. On September 11, 2018, he was born. On December 23, 2020, she announced on Instagram that she was expecting her second child. On April 28, 2021, she gave birth to her second child, a son.
What is Margaret Brennan’s salary?
She earns an annual salary of $100,000.
Margaret Brennan Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Margaret Brennan Bloomberg
Margaret Brennan left CNBC on June 24, 2009, to join Bloomberg Television: InBusiness. She broadcast live from Riyadh, Dubai, Cairo, London, Dublin, Abu Dhabi, and Davos during her tenure. Brennan reported on major breaking news stories such as the European debt crisis and the BP oil spill. She reported live from Tahrir Square as Hosni Mubarak announced his resignation after 30 years in power.
Margaret Brennan CBS News
Brennan began working for CBS News in July 2012 and has been based in Washington since then. She has covered diplomatic negotiations such as the Iran nuclear deal, the Syria chemical weapons deal, and the resumption of relations with Cuba. On February 22, 2018, she was named the tenth moderator of Face the Nation, CBS’s Sunday morning political interview program, becoming only the second woman to do so.
Margaret Brennan CNBC
Brennan began her career in business news in 2002 as a producer for prominent financial journalist Louis Rukeyser at CNBC. She wrote, researched, and booked guests for Louis Rukeyser’s weekly Wall Street show and prime-time specials. Brennan later collaborated with Ron Insana as a producer on Street Signs, where she coordinated guest bookings and produced interviews with former President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. She covered the financial crisis as a CNBC correspondent, with a focus on consumer issues. She interviewed former Walmart CEO Lee Scott as well as Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen. She broke the story of Circuit City’s bankruptcy in 2009 and covered changing consumer trends for the network on a regular basis.
Margaret Brennan Awards
Irish America magazine named her one of the top 100 Irish-Americans in business and media, as well as one of the top 100 Irish Americans. The NewsBios/TJFR Group named her one of the top journalists under the age of 30 in 2003. In 2010, Brennan was awarded the Fulbright Award for International Understanding.
Brennan was honored with an Emmy for “Outstanding News Special” for her coverage of the Parkland High School shooting. Brennan was nominated for two Emmys for “Outstanding News Analysis” for her coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and Iran-US relations. She received a Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council in 2020. She received a Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council in 2020. She won first place in the National Headliner Awards in 2021 for her coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in “Facing the Pandemic.”
