Paula Zahn Biography
Paula Zahn is a journalist and newscaster who has worked for ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, and CNN. On the Investigation Discovery channel, she currently produces and hosts the true-crime documentary series On the Case with Paula Zahn.
How old is Paula Zahn? – Age
She is 65 years old as of 24 February 2022. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Her real name is Paula Ann Zahn.
Paula Zahn Family
Zahn was born to a mother who was a schoolteacher and an artist and a father who was an IBM sales executive. She was raised in Canton, Ohio, by her parents and three siblings. Her father’s job required them to move frequently, so the family relocated to Naperville, Illinois. She once joked that the letters “IBM” stood for “I’ve been moved.”
Paula Zahn Education
She attended Naperville Junior High School before graduating from Naperville Central High School in 1974. Zahn also competed in a number of beauty pageants, reaching the semi-finals of the Miss Teenage America Pageant in 1973. She continued her education on a cello scholarship at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and gained firsthand knowledge of the news industry as an intern at WBBM-TV in Chicago.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in 1978. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1978. Zahn then spent the next ten years working at various local television stations across the country, including WFAA-TV in Dallas, KFMB-TV in San Diego, KPRC-TV in Houston, WHDH-TV (then WNEV) in Boston, and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.
Paula Zahn Husband and Children
Zahn is married to Richard Cohen, a New York City real estate developer, and they have three children, Austin, Jared, and Haley. Cohen is Jewish, and his faith is instilled in his children. The couple made headlines in 2004 when the well-publicized red-tailed hawk Pale Male’s nest was removed from their Manhattan co-op building.
Cohen, the co-op board’s president, supported the removal; Zahn had spoken favorably of the hawk and its habit of feeding on rats and pigeons in 2001. Zahn announced in April 2007 that she was divorcing Cohen after 20 years of marriage. That same year, Zahn filed a lawsuit against Cohen, alleging that he mismanaged her career earnings over a 20-year period. The lawsuit was dismissed by a state court in New York, which ruled that it “is not a commercial case, but rather a matrimonial dispute masquerading as a commercial dispute.”
Paula Zahn CNN
Zahn began her career at CNN on September 11, 2001, when she joined anchor Aaron Brown in covering the terrorist attacks of that day as a reaction to what she witnessed. Despite the fact that she was not scheduled to appear on a CNN program that was still in the works, she began a regular morning news shift the following day. She debuted her CNN morning news show, American Morning with Paula Zahn, in January.
During the Iraq War in 2003, Zahn returned to prime time, hosting a two-hour program called Live from the Headlines, which provided ongoing coverage of the war and other events. By early summer, Anderson Cooper had taken over the first of the two hours, and her show, Paula Zahn Now, had debuted by September.
She announced her resignation from CNN on July 24, 2007. Paula Zahn Now aired its final episode on August 2, 2007. The news came less than a day after CNN hired Campbell Brown, the former Weekend Today co-host. Initially, guest hosts carried on Zahn’s show under the title Out in the Open. This was later replaced by-election campaign coverage and, eventually, Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull.
Paula Zahn WNET
Zahn was named the new co-host of SundayArts on New York City PBS stations WNET and WLIW on November 9, 2008. The program, which covers the New York City fine arts scene, is now known as NYC-ARTS and airs on Thursday evenings.
Paula Zahn Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $18 Million.
Paula Zahn Fox News
Zahn left CBS News after nine years to join Fox News Channel (FNC), where she anchored Fox Report, the network’s nightly newscast, in 1999. Months later, she assisted in the launch of her own prime-time news show, The Edge with Paula Zahn.