Michael Holmes Biography
Michael Holmes is an Australian CNN International (CNNI) news anchor and correspondent who has been anchoring CNN Newsroom with Michael Holmes since 2019. The shows air between the hours of 12 a.m. and 4 a.m. ET on Fridays and Mondays. He previously hosted CNNI’s CNN Today with Amara Walker.
How old is Michael Holmes? – Age
He is 61 years old as of December 2021. He was born in 1960 in Perth, Australia. His real name is Michael James Holmes.
Michael Holmes Family – Education
He is the son of Jim Holmes and Shirley Holmes. From 1973 to 1977, he attended Wesley College and Perth High School.
Michael Holmes Wife
He has not revealed his marital status to anyone, it is not known if he is married, engaged, divorced, or single.
Michael Holmes Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $30 Million.
What is Michael Holmes Salary?
He is said to be earning an annual salary of $465,000.
Michael Holmes Career
Holmes, who has been a journalist for over four decades, anchors CNN Newsroom with Michael Holmes between 12 and 3 a.m. ET on Fridays and Mondays (5-8am GMT). Holmes, who joined CNNI in 1996 as the network’s first Australian anchor, has also traveled to more than 80 countries and reported extensively from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Mexico, India, Nepal, Africa, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. He reported from the Mexico-Guatemala border on the Central American migrant crisis, as well as the drowning deaths of an El Salvadoran man and his young daughter, whose bodies were discovered together on the banks of the Rio Grande after attempting to cross into the United States. Other recent assignments have included reporting on the deadly protests on the Gaza-Israel border, the Israeli elections, and the fire at Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral.
Holmes has reported on a number of conflicts, including those in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and the West Bank and Gaza. He covered the Iraq war from the start, making more than a dozen trips there, usually for weeks at a time. He covered every aspect of the war, from the insurgency and occupation to Saddam Hussein’s trial and execution. In January 2004, he survived an ambush on a two-vehicle CNN convoy that killed two CNN employees and injured one. Holmes spent several weeks in Iraq in the fall of 2016 covering the Iraqi-led offensive to retake Mosul from ISIS. His reporting helped CNN win a Peabody Award in 2016 for its coverage of the Battle for Mosul, ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and Undercover in Syria.
He reported from Brussels in March 2016 following the deadly terror attacks at Zaventum airport and Maelbeek metro station. Holmes covered Belgium’s response to the ISIS attacks for several days, even securing an exclusive interview with a family member of Belgian jihadist Hicham Chaib.
In 2015, Holmes anchored CNN’s breaking news coverage of the Paris terrorist attacks, which earned her a 2016 Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for ‘Best Breaking News Coverage.’ He’s spent much of his career covering the world’s hotspots, including Ukraine, where he anchored live from Kiev on the riots and was in Crimea for the contentious referendum that resulted in Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
He also covered the Libyan revolution that led to Moammar Gadhafi’s deposition, spending several weeks with Libyan rebels as they advanced from the western mountains and covering the at times fierce fighting in several towns and cities. During Israel’s incursion into the West Bank in 2002, John Holmes was one of the few journalists to report from inside Ramallah. He has also covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan extensively, witnessing violence on both sides of the conflict. His coverage of Hurricanes Sandy, Michael, Irma, and Maria earned him an Edward R. Murrow Award for natural disaster reporting.
