Tom Foreman Biography
Tom Foreman is an Emmy award-winning journalist from the United States working for CNN. His career spans more than three decades, and he has been involved in virtually every major news story during that time.
How old is Tom Foreman? – Age
He is 62 years old as of 6 December 2021. He was born in 1959 in the United States.
Tom Foreman Wife – Family
He is married to Linda Foreman, a pharmacist from New Jersey. The two have been married since 1986 and together has two children.
Tom Foreman Education
Foreman holds an honorary doctorate from Quinnipiac University and a Magna Cum Laude from Troy State University in Troy, Alabama. He is a seasoned ultra-marathoner who regularly competes in races of 50 miles or longer.
Tom Foreman Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1.1 Million.
Tom Foreman Salary
Tom earns an average salary of $91,213.
Tom Foreman Career
Foreman has covered CNN’s America’s Choice 2016 presidential campaign cycle, the Paris terror attacks, the disappearance of passenger plane MH370, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, among other topics. He is in charge of the network’s fact-checking initiative, and he and his team were honored with the Walter Cronkite/Brooks Jackson Award in 2013.
Foreman joined CNN in 2004 and is based in the network’s Washington, D.C. bureau, where he covers a wide range of topics for the network and contributes to shows ranging from Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room to Anderson Cooper 360o. Much of CNN’s new media work has been pioneered by Foreman, who played a key role in the development of an immersive, 3-D Virtual Studio that has taken viewers into space to study satellites, traveled to distant battlefields to promote better understanding of dangerous conflicts, and dived deep into the 2016 election cycle.
Foreman also writes a weekly newspaper column, has over 1400 open letters to President Obama on CNN.com, and hosts CNN’s New Year’s Eve year-in-review show. Foreman began his reporting career while still in high school, at a small radio station in Alabama. He worked for WSFA in Montgomery, Ala., and then for WWL-TV in New Orleans, La., after college. He worked as a roving reporter for ABC News’ Denver bureau for ten years.
In 2000, Foreman relocated to Washington to work for National Geographic as a senior anchor and managing editor for Inside Base Camp, for which he won his second Emmy Award for best interviewer. He is a seasoned ultra-marathoner who regularly competes in races of 50 miles or longer. In his book My Year of Running Dangerously, Foreman chronicled his journey through four half-marathons, three marathons, and one 55-mile race.