Vladimir Duthiers Biography
Vladimir Duthiers is an American television journalist who has been a CBS News correspondent since 2014 after working for CNN for five years. He was a member of the CNN team that won two Emmys for its coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and he won a Peabody Award for his coverage of the kidnapping of schoolgirls by Boko Haram from Nigeria.
How old is Vladimir Duthiers? – Age
He is 52 years old as of 21 December 2021. He was born in 1969 in New York, New York, United States.
Vladimir Duthiers Family – Education
Duthiers was born in Haiti as the son of Haitian immigrants of French ancestry. He speaks French and Haitian Creole fluently. He attended the University of Rhode Island, where he majored in journalism before switching to political science. He graduated in 1991 and began working in the financial services industry on Wall Street.
In 1993, he joined the asset management firm AllianceBernstein, where he rose to the position of Managing Director, responsible for business development in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, before returning to Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on a part-time basis to study broadcast journalism.
Who is Vladimir Duthiers Wife? – Marriage
Duthiers married his long-term girlfriend Marian Wang, a senior news producer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, on September 1, 2020. They intended to marry in South Africa, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they married on Fire Island, New York, on his mother’s birthday.
How tall is Vlad Duthiers? – Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet and 9 inches (1.75 m).
What is Vladimir Duthiers Net Worth?
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Vladimir Duthiers Salary
He has an annual salary of $200 thousand.
Vladimir Duthiers Career
Since joining CBS News in 2014, the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist has covered a wide range of breaking and feature stories. He spent a month covering the protests against police following the shooting of an unarmed African American man by a White police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and several weeks covering the police manhunt for Eric Matthew Frein, who allegedly killed a Pennsylvania State Police officer. He’s flown with the Navy’s Blue Angels, embedded with the US Air Force in South Korea and Guam, flown a training mission in the back seat of an F-16 Viper miles from the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea, and interviewed Admiral Harry Harrison, commander of US Pacific Command.
He also went to the Amazon jungle in Brazil to report on how deforestation contributes to climate change. The first documentary project for the CBSN Originals series was Duthiers’ reporting on the roots of Muslim extremism in the volatile suburbs of Paris and Brussels in the aftermath of the coordinated terrorist attacks in France that killed 130 people in November 2015. He was also nominated for an SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award for his profile on Inside international basketball star Sebastien Bellin’s remarkable eight-month recovery after being nearly killed in the March 2016 attack in Brussels, Belgium.
Duthiers hosted CBSN’s live coverage of the 2016 Republican and Democratic conventions, as well as every debate between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2016. Duthiers has conducted interviews with a number of high-profile politicians, including Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, late Senator John McCain, Senator Bernie Sanders, and former FBI Director James Comey. He has also interviewed business leaders such as Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. Oprah Winfrey, Harry Belafonte, Slash, Dave Grohl, Lin Manuel Miranda, Alicia Keys, and Cher have also been interviewed for Duthiers. He was a part of CBS News’ special coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding.
Prior to joining CBS News, Duthiers worked as an international correspondent for CNN in Lagos, Nigeria. His reporting on the more than 200 girls kidnapped from their school in Northeastern Nigeria by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram earned him a Peabody Award. During his assignment in Nigeria, Duthiers reported extensively on Boko Haram’s terrorist activities, which have resulted in the deaths of thousands of Nigerians since 2009. Duthiers covered the ongoing military intervention in Mali, the terrorist attack on Algeria’s Amenas gas plant, the trial and sentencing of former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor at the International Criminal Court in Sierra Leone, the crash of Dana Air Flight 992, and President Barack Obama’s visit to Senegal while in the region.
He also covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the Middle East, as well as the political turmoil in Thailand and the birth of the royal baby Prince George in July 2013. He began his career at CNN in 2009 as a production assistant on the news program “Amanpour,” later becoming an associate producer on “Anderson Cooper 360°.” He was one of the first journalists to arrive in Haiti to cover the 2010 earthquake, and he was a member of the team that won two Emmy Awards for their coverage. Prior to his journalism career, Duthiers worked in the investment management industry for 18 years, most recently as a managing director at an investment firm, where he led global investment initiatives for clients in 21 countries.