Nikki Battiste Biography
Nikki Battiste works as a CBS News correspondent in New York. She is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist whose work can be seen on all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including “CBS Mornings,” “CBS Evening News,” “48 Hours,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” and CBSN, CBS News’ 24/7 live, streaming news service.
How old is Nikki Battiste? – Age
She is 33 years of age as of 2022. She was born in 1989, in the United States.
Nikki Battiste Education
Battiste enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania and later graduated with a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. She was a co-captain on the university’s Division I Field Hockey team.
Nikki Battiste Husband
She is married to Dean Simpson. The couple first met in New York City in May of 2012 at the Standard Hotel’s Biergarten. The commemorations included a horse, as well as traditions and food from their various cultures. Nikki walked alongside her father as he led a white horse for her as the ceremony began.
Nikki Battiste Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Nikki Battiste Salary
She has an estimated net worth of $100 thousand.
Nikki Battiste Career
Battiste’s groundbreaking investigations into the 2018 Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal were widely praised. Her original reporting resulted in two clergy abuse survivors sitting down face-to-face with the priest who they claim abused them as children, in a television first.
During a separate investigation with the CBS News investigative unit, Battiste and her team discovered allegations of sexual abuse against a priest still serving in the Galveston-Houston archdiocese, which is presided over by USCCB president Cardinal Daniel DiNardo. Following Battiste’s questioning of DiNardo about the allegations, the priest was removed from ministry, and law enforcement executed a search warrant for secret archives in the archdiocese a week later.
Battiste resigned from his position two months after his exclusive August 2018 interview with now-former Washington, D.C. Archbishop Cardinal Donald Wuerl. She also broke the story of nuns sexually abusing children, prompting more than 40 additional victims to come forward. In February 2019, Battiste traveled to Rome to cover Pope Francis’ Vatican summit on the clergy abuse crisis.
She has covered the gun debate in America since joining CBS News, and she was the first to report on armed teachers in classrooms, sparking a national debate. She has reported and written for the “CBS News Evening News” series “Eye on America,” including stories about a teachers strike in Sacramento and the debate over arming college students on campus. She also interviewed five sisters who had been sexually abused by the same priest for a “Eye on America” report. Her feature stories have looked at groundbreaking brain research that could help with suicide and mental illness treatment, revolutionary food contamination technology, and the American West’s wild horse crisis.
Battiste has also reported on the coronavirus pandemic, the Indianapolis FedEx shooting, Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, Hurricane Michael in Florida, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the case of Colorado missing mother Kelsey Berreth, the El Paso Walmart shooting, and the New Zealand mosque shooting for the Network. Battiste joined CBS News in May 2017 as a freelance correspondent for CBS Newspath, the Network’s 24-hour television newsgathering service for CBS stations and broadcasters worldwide. She covered the Pennsylvania manhunt for four missing men, the Parkland school shooting, and the Austin bomber.
She was previously an award-winning ABC News producer and reporter in New York. She traveled the world to report on breaking news and feature stories for ABC News broadcast platforms such as “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight,” “Nightline,” “20/20,” and ABCNews.com. He covered the Amanda Knox case from Perugia, Italy, and the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from Perth, Australia, for ABC News.