Sara Ganim Biography
Sara Ganim is a CNN correspondent in the United States. She previously worked as a reporter for The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
How old is Sara Ganim?- Age
Sara is 36 years old as of September 2023. She was born Sara Elizabeth Ganim on September 9, 1987 Detroit, Michigan, United States of America.
Sara Ganim Family -Education
Ganim was born in Detroit and raised in Coral Springs, Florida. Ganim graduated from Archbishop McCarthy High School in 2005 and from Pennsylvania State University in 2008, where she majored in Journalism. Ganim has Lebanese and German ancestors.
Sara Ganim Husband
She is happily married to her husband Danny Cevallos.
Sara Ganim CNN News
Ganim began her career as a contributor to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in high school, and she later wrote for the Daily Collegian at Penn State before interning for The Associated Press. Ganim began working for the Centre Daily Times in 2007, a daily newspaper situated in State College, Pennsylvania, near Penn State’s University Park campus. She received many state journalism honors while at the Daily Times for her work on the topic of child abuse allegations against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky. She began working for The Patriot-News in January 2011. The Patriot-News released a story produced by the newspaper’s lawyers on March 31, 2011, based on Ganim’s reporting that a grand jury was examining child sex abuse allegations against Sandusky.
She departed The Patriot-News in November 2012 to become a full-time CNN correspondent. Ganim reported for CNN on January 8, 2014, that certain student-athletes at NCAA Division I member colleges and institutions read at the third-grade level or lower. The article focused on numerous different colleges, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), attributing the UNC information to the findings of Mary Willingham, a learning specialist who worked at the university. The University of North Carolina later stated that the study was “severely flawed.” The NCAA also questioned Ganim’s description of collegiate athletes’ academic qualifications in the piece, claiming that “the hard facts and cold truth simply do not bear out the scenario portrayed in [her] reporting.”
On April 11, 2014, UNC released independent expert assessments refuting Willingham’s assertions, saying that “[a] recent CNN articled stated, “60% [of UNC athletes] read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels.” Between 8% and 10% of the population reads at or below the third grade level.” Instead of 60% of UNC student-athletes reading at the 4th to 8th grade level, only 6% of student-athletes read at that level.” In May 2014, a New York Times columnist mentioned the CNN piece when recounting Willingham’s story as a whistleblower. The news prompted UNC to request a seventh assessment of the UNC controversy, led by veteran federal prosecutor Ken Wainstein, who discovered that UNC had suppressed an academic problem.
Sara Ganim Net Worth
Ganim has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.