Nancy Chen Bio, Age, College, Husband, Salary, Net Worth, CBS News Career

Nancy Chen Biography

Nancy Chen is an American television journalist who works as a CBS News correspondent, reporting across all platforms and broadcasts.

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How old is Nancy Chen? – Age

Nancy is 34 years old as of 2021. She was born in the year 1988, in Texas but was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.

Nancy Chen Education

She studied at Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics, studied Chinese at Peking University in Beijing, and earned a degree in international relations as a Trustee Scholar from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Nancy Chen Husband

She is engaged to Joe. Joe proposed to Nancy one spring evening near the Art Museum’s Fairmount Waterworks. Joe and Nancy live in Bloomington, Indiana, where Joe is in his first year as a professor of Social Psychology and Nancy writes and works remotely for organizations in Philadelphia. They are excited to see their family and friends in Philadelphia this summer.

Nancy Chen Career – CBS News

Chen joined CBS News as a New York-based correspondent in 2021, having previously worked as a correspondent with the organization’s Newspath division since February of 2020. She has covered national stories such as the criminal trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Waukesha Christmas parade attack, the 2022 Bronx apartment fire, and the Omicron wave in New York City. Chen previously worked as a weekday anchor and reporter at WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. She came to WJLA-TV from WHDH-TV in Boston, where she worked as a weekend anchor and weekday reporter for five years.

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Throughout her career, she has covered a wide range of national and international stories, including the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the Congressional ballpark shooting, the Boston Marathon bombings and aftermath, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the 2015 Super Bowl, the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and the 2013 EF5 Moore, Oklahoma, tornado.

Chen came to WHDH-TV from KSBY-TV in San Luis Obispo/Santa Barbara, where she worked as a multimedia journalist. She also worked as a web producer for KABC-TV in Los Angeles and for NBC Sports in Beijing during the 2008 Summer Olympics. She began her career as a print reporter for the Tulsa World, where she worked for three years.

Nancy Chen Salary

She earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.

Nancy Chen Net Worth

She has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.