Michelle Miller Biography
Michelle Miller is a CBS News national correspondent who currently co-hosts CBS Saturday Morning. She has also filled in as an anchor on CBS Mornings and 48 Hours on ID.
How old is Michelle Miller? – Age
She is 54 years old as of 8 December 2021. She was born in 1967 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Who is Michelle Miller’s Mother? – Family
Dr. Ross Miller, MD, Miller’s father, was the first physician to attend to Robert F. Kennedy at the scene of his assassination on June 5, 1968.
Where did Michelle Miller go to College?
She delivered commencement addresses at Tennessee State University and St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York, where she was awarded an honorary degree. Miller graduated from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and studied in Kenya and Tanzania. Miller is also a graduate of the University of New Orleans with a master’s degree in urban studies.
Who is Michelle Miller’s spouse? – Wife
She is married to Marc Morial, the former mayor of New Orleans and President and CEO of the National Urban League. Mason, her son, was born in 2002, and Margeaux, her daughter, was born in 2005.
Michelle Miller Career
Miller has covered stories of national and international significance since joining CBS News in 2004. Her coverage ranges from presidential elections to the climate crisis, but her reporting on social justice has been particularly groundbreaking. Miller has been at the forefront of CBS News’ coverage of the protest movement involving these issues, from the killings of George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown, to the Emanuel 9 Massacre in Charleston, to sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby, Russell Simmons, and Harvey Weinstein.
She was the first CBS News correspondent on the scene of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and she covered the movement to change the country’s gun laws, including the March for Our Lives protests. Her coverage has also included the Middle East refugee crisis, Nelson Mandela’s birthday and life, and Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding.
Miller’s reporting has earned her several prestigious journalism awards, including an Emmy for her series of reports on the National Guard’s Youth Challenge Academy, an Edward R Murrow for her coverage of a daycare center standoff in New Orleans, and she was part of the team that won the Alfred I. DuPont – Columbia Award for coverage of the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting. Miller received a Gracie award in 2019 for her reporting on the shadowy world of sex trafficking in “48 Hours: Live to Tell: Trafficked.” She has also received NABJ’s Salute to Excellence Award and was named Woman of the Year by the National Sports Foundation. Miller was named one of the “12 to watch in TV news” by TV Week in 2014.
President Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, Beyoncé, Tiffany Haddish, John Goodman, Tony Bennett, James Earl Jones, Lenny Kravitz, LL COOL J, Carlos Santana, Denzel Washington, and violinist Yo-Yo Ma are among those interviewed by Miller.
Miller’s broadcast and print journalism experience includes stints at the Los Angeles Times, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, CBS affiliate WWL-TV in New Orleans, WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina, the Orange County News channel, and ABC News “Nightline” in Washington, D.C. She also taught journalism and mass communication courses at Dillard University in New Orleans.
Miller is a board member for the School of American Ballet, the Greater New York Chapter of the Links, Inc., and a founding member of the Women’s Leadership Initiative for the United Way of New Orleans, in addition to her co-hosting and reporting duties. She has served on the National Communications Advisory Council of the March of Dimes. Miller previously held the positions of vice president of the YWCA of Greater New Orleans and president of the Black Journalists Association of Southern California and president of the New Orleans Association of Black Journalists. She is also a former member of Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism’s Board of Advisors.
Miller has attended the Poynter Institute, served as a Hitesman Lecturer at Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication, and has spoken at the Harvard Business School’s Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference and as a guest speaker for the National Model UN Program. She has given lectures at Drew University, Howard University, Wellesley College, Stony Brook University, Southern University at New Orleans, and Loyola University, among others.
Michelle Miller Salary
He earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.
Michelle Miller Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.