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Reporters are relied upon to share the most up-to-date and relevant news stories for their eagerly-awaiting audiences. From anchors to correspondents, women have become more and more prominent as fixtures of the newsroom, with the most familiar female faces even serving as role models for the next generation of potential news messengers.
And the most familiar of faces are compensated quite handsomely, as they’re amongst the wealthiest women in the world. The following is a list of the world’s highest-earning female television anchors, beginning with one who earns $500,000, which is no chump change. But while many of us would love to be worth that much, some women on this list are worth well north of $100 million…
Bri Winkler
Age: 32
Net Worth: $500,000
In 2012, Rutledge was selected Miss Florida. Thereafter, she landed a role with Fox Sports. She started as a sideline reporter and started to climb the corporate ladder.
She’s now on ESPN and CNN, among other networks. Rutledge is the first of many in the sports field to make this list.
Alyssa Taglia
Age: 32
Net Worth: $500,000
Winkler reported the weather for ABC Eyewitness News nightly starting in 2011. Recently, she has been focusing on her studies and is striving for a degree in environmental science.
She’ll likely be back on screen soon, as she was earning a salary of around $120,000 prior to taking a break. It’s hard not to want a salary like that again.
Indra Petersons
Age: 26
Net Worth: $600,000
Another former beauty queen, Taglia transitioned her career over to the news entertainment industry. She has been an anchor on WTNH New 8’s Good Morning Connecticut and a multimedia journalist for the station.
She graduated from Point Park University in Pittsburgh. Taglia also took part in the New York Film Academy’s Broadcast Journalism certificate program.
Kiran Chetry
Age: 40
Net Worth: $650,000
Petersons debuted as a meteorologist for KVIA in Texas back in 2002. She bounced around from there until she linked up with CNN to become the weather anchor for New Day.
Later, she took a role with NBC News. Her net worth will only grow as she continues to build up her already impressive resume.
Vanessa Borge
Age: 46
Net Worth: $700,000
Kiran is known as both an anchor and award-winning journalist. She’s best known for her work on CNN’s American Morning. She also contributes to Fox News Channel.
Although she left CNN as a full-time employee in 2012, Kiran still participates as a panelist and freelance anchor for CNN from time to time. She earned a degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.
Jillian Mele
Age: 33
Net Worth: $800,000
After graduating with honors from the University of Florida, Borge became an Emmy award-winning host of Fox 11 Los Angeles’ Good Day LA. Prior to that, she worked for CBS News for nearly a decade.
Outside of her job, Borge is a philanthropist. She has teamed up with charitable foundations like the American Heart Association Gala, the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and the United States Conference on AIDS.
Susan Li
Age: 38
Net Worth: $900,000
Mele is known in both the news and sports segments. In 2007, she aired with NBA10. There, she won her first Emmy for her show featuring the Olympics.
Her second Emmy came from Breakfast on Broad, her talk show on NBC Sports Philadelphia. Mele went on to Fox News Channel as a co-anchor for Fox & Friends.
Alicia Menendez
Age: 35
Net Worth: $1 Million
Li started out with various jobs all over the globe. She debuted with CBC, then moved to CCTV, Bloomberg and CNBC Asia, Europe and the US. Finally, in 2018, she landed her role as a correspondent on the Fox Business Network.
Needless to say, Li has worked hard to get where she is today. Her most recent role reportedly pays her a salary of $650,000.
Charlotte Hawkins
Age: 37
Net Worth: $1 Million
Menendez stars in the news segment, where she’s a commentator, host and writer. In fact, she’s a published author. She has worked for MSNBC, PBS and HuffPost Live.
She graduated from Harvard in 2005. In addition to her full-time roles, she’s often invited as a guest on channels like CNN and Fox News.
Maria Quiban
Age: 45
Net Worth: $1 Million
Hailing from the United Kingdom, Hawkins is a TV presenter and journalist. She works for ITV, one of the most popular channels in her country.
She actually got her start with that network, but left for Sky News. However, after nearly a decade there, Hawkins went back to ITV. She hosts the morning show Good Morning Britain.
Lauren Gardner
Age: 50
Net Worth: $1 Million
Quiban is the weather anchor for KKTV in Los Angeles. In addition to that, she has also been featured in TV shows and movies such as Bruce Almighty and Everybody Hates Chris.
She has two sons. The oldest is an adult from her first marriage and the youngest is a child she raises alone because her third husband tragically passed away.
Elizabeth Plank
Age: 35
Net Worth: $1 Million
Gardner graduated from the University of Colorado and has worked for a multitude of networks. Some of her past employers are CBS Sports Network, Fox Sports and MTV2.
Currently, she’s a sportscaster with the DAZN Group. Specializing in sports, Gardner also works with both the NHL and MLB Networks.
Brooke Baldwin
Age: 33
Net Worth: $1 Million
Plank is an award-winning journalist who works as a political correspondent at Vox. She started out as a correspondent and co-creator of the Flip the Script series. Later, she was a correspondent for the MSNBC show Krystal Clear.
Outside of that work, Plank wrote a book called For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity. She obtained her master’s degree in Economics from McGill University in Canada.
Britt McHenry
Age: 41
Net Worth: $1.3 Million
Baldwin is an anchor for CNN and has been with the network since 2008. She hosts CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin.
Her career started off at a news station in Virginia. Next, she went to Washington and then to Atlanta. In addition to her normal role with CNN, Baldwin also hosts New Year’s Eve Live.
Amanda Drury
Age: 34
Net Worth: $1.5 Million
McHenry is a former ESPN personality. Her professional career took off in the sports world, but she has since seemed to transition out of that field.
Currently, she’s a commentator on Fox Nation, which is Fox News’ 24/7 streaming service. She is also the host of a show on WTTG Fox 5 in Washington, DC.
Wendi Nix
Age: 47
Net Worth: $1.5 Million
Drury, who was born and raised in Australia, has gained notoriety for her work as a freelance anchor for CNBC. Before she worked there, she co-hosted several programs such as Power Lunch, Street Signs and The Call.
In her past, Drury worked for Bloomberg Television in Tokyo. She stayed in Asia and co-hosted shows like Business Centre Australia, CNBC’s Cash Flow and Market Watch.
Diletta Leotta
Age: 46
Net Worth: $2 Million
Nix has an estimated total annual salary of around $800,000. One of her major roles is co-hosting NFL Live on ESPN.
Earlier, Nix worked for local news and TV shows, including both NESN and WPDE in South Carolina. She was even the weekend sports anchor at WHDH in Boston.
Betty Liu
Age: 29
Net Worth: $1 Million
From Italy, Leotta is a sportscaster who is starting to make a name for herself in the United States, too. She has worked for networks such as DAZN and Sky Sport Italy, where she reports for Serie A and B soccer matches.
She is extremely popular on social media and has over seven million followers on Instagram. Her influence online will likely help her push her career further.
Ghida Fakhry
Age: 48
Net Worth: $2 Million
Liu was born in Hong Kong, but her family moved to America when she was three years old. She got her first big break in financial journalism as the youngest Hong Kong-based correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires.
She later worked for the Financial Times and wrote for The Wall Street Journal. However, most people know her from her show In the Loop with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television. She has won a lot of awards, including the Dow Jones Newswires Award.
Paula Faris
Age: 51
Net Worth: $2 Million
Fakhry began as a political correspondent for the newspaper Asharq Al-Aswat in New York City. Since then, she has worked for Abu Dhabi Television, Al Jazeera English and CNN International. Shows she hosted include Inside Story and Newshour.
She’s a moderator for the Doha Debates and a contributor on The Huffington Post. Fakhry has two masters degrees, one in International Relations and the other in Near and Middle East Studies.
Josina Anderson
Age: 44
Net Worth: $2 Million
While she currently co-hosts ABC’s The View, Faris worked hard to get there. After struggling to make a name for herself in the news entertainment industry, she got her first big shot as a production assistant at WKEF/WRGT.
Faris worked in Chicago and Cincinnati before securing a role with ABC. Since then, she’s worked for World News Now and America This Morning outside of The View.
Linzie Janis
Age: 42
Net Worth: $2 Million
Anderson began her sports news career on the radio, contributing to shows such as The Tony Kornheiser Show and The Donnie Simpson Show. Later, she worked for CBS as a sports news anchor and reporter.
Her career stalled at CBS and Anderson decided to quit. She even worked as a personal trainer before eventually being hired by Fox 31. In 2011, she scored her dream job as a reporter for ESPN.
Courtney Friel
Age: 41
Net Worth: $2 Million
Janis is an Emmy award-winning journalist who has gained notoriety from several national broadcasts. She has been a part of Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, Nightline and 20/20.
Prior to working for ABC, Janis worked for CNN International as a producer and anchor for Bloomberg Television in London.
Molly Line
Age: 40
Net Worth: $2.5 Million
Friel is the anchor for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. She actually debuted in entertainment and anchored for WBBJ-TV in 2003.
She has appeared in men’s magazines as well, which helped her gain fans around the world. Friel has career earnings of more than $12 million and counting.
Charissa Thompson
Age: 43
Net Worth: $2.5 Million
Line studied Mass Communication and Political Science while at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She used her degree to break into broadcast journalism.
She worked for various small networks prior to landing her first major role. That big break occurred in 2006 when she was hired by Fox News Channel.
Lindsay Czarniak
Age: 38
Net Worth: $3 Million
Thompson has carved out a great career in the sports world. She has worked for companies like ESPN, Fox Sports, GSN, the Big Ten Network and Versus.
She was the co-host of SportsNation with Marcellus Wiley until she left ESPN for Fox Sports. This change occurred back in June of 2013.
Sheena Parveen
Age: 43
Net Worth: $3 Million
Czarniak started as an intern for WUSA in Washington, DC. From there, she worked her way up in the world of broadcasting.
She currently works for Fox Sports as a host for NASCAR. During the NFL season, Czarniak is also a sideline reporter.
Hannah Storm
Age: 32
Net Worth: $3 Million
Parveen graduated from Florida State University with a major in meteorology. There was a clear goal of being a weather anchor.
Today, she’s one of the most popular weather presenters for NBC. She is well known throughout the industry for her work.
Alex Wagner
Age: 58
Net Worth: $3 Million
Starting her career in 1984, Storm has been on air for more than thirty years. Over that time, she has hosted several news and sports shows.
She’s now an anchor of SportsCenter’s Face to Face on ESPN. Storm is married to colleague Dan Hicks. The sportscaster pair have three daughters.
Anna Gilligan
Age: 43
Net Worth: $3 Million
Wagner has specialized in both the cultural and music fields. She has also anchored for CBS News and had her own show Now with Alex Wagner.
Currently, she’s an editor for The Atlantic. She is also the co-host of The Circus on Showtime and the author of FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging.
Bianna Golodryga
Age: 39
Net Worth: $3 Million
Gilligan is a native of Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Cornell University prior to beginning her career in news entertainment.
She has worked on TV shows such as Fox News Channel’s Red Eye and web shows like Fast Track and MeetTheBoss. Gilligan has a modeling career, too, and is signed with the Bella Agency.
Katherine Timpf
Age: 42
Net Worth: $3 Million
Born in Moldova, Golodryga moved to the United States when she was barely over one year old. Her family was political refugees escaping from the Soviet Union.
Nowadays, she’s a co-host of CBS This Morning and is also contracted with CNN. Her big break came when she was named one of the top journalists under 30 as the finance anchor at Yahoo! News.
Liz Cho
Age: 32
Net Worth: $3 Million
Timpf is not only successful in the world of news, but she’s also an accomplished comedian. She has appeared on several Fox programs like Fox News Specialists, The Greg Gutfeld Show and Sincerely Kat.
She has also worked as a digital editor for The Washington Times and has hosted the Kat Timpf Show on Barstool Sports. Touching again on comedy, Timpf has performed at clubs such as The Improv and Gotham Comedy Club.
Kate Bolduan
Age: 50
Net Worth: $3 Million
Cho has made a name for herself mainly from being an anchor for Eyewitness News on WABC-TV. Over the course of her career, she has covered several high profile news stories, including the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Earlier, Cho worked for ABC News, Good Morning America, Nightline and World News Tonight. She graduated from Boston University.
Ginger Zee
Age: 37
Net Worth: $3 Million
Bolduan is an anchor for CNN’s At This House and first worked with the network in 2007. She has also worked on shows like State of America with Kate Bolduan on CNN International, New Day and The Situation Room.
Her first role was an assignment reporter for WTVD-TV in North Carolina. Next, she was an assistant for MSNBC and NBC News in Washington, DC.
Yanet Garcia
Age: 39
Net Worth: $3 Million
Ginger Renee Colonomos is better known by her pseudonym, Ginger Zee. She was named after Ginger from Gilligan’s Island by her father, due to his love of the show.
On ABC New, she holds the title of Chief Meteorologist. Zee has appeared on news shows like Good Morning America and Nightline.
Catt Sadler
Age: 30
Net Worth: $3 Million
Garcia has been called the “most beautiful weather girl in the world.” That title helps explain why she has over 13.5 million Instagram followers
The model and meteorologist also has movie credits to her name. She was part of the cast in both Bellezonismo and Sharknado 5: Global Swarming.
Kaylee Hartung
Age: 46
Net Worth: $3 Million
Earlier in her career, The Los Angeles Times named Sadler one of the top 10 up-and-coming broadcasters in entertainment. In 2017, Sadler revealed how much she was earning, but for a good reason.
The E! News anchor found out she was making half of what co-host Jason Kennedy was making. She had a salary of $600,000 then, but it was less than Kennedy because he had a more senior role according to the network. As a result, Sadler quit her position at E! News.
Anna Kooiman
Age: 35
Net Worth: $3.2 Million
Hartung is a reporter for ABC News. She has also worked for CNN, CBSNews.com and Washington Unplugged.
Previously, she worked for ESPN, where she contributed to the SEC Network, primarily on the show SEC Nation. She reported for the Longhorn Network, too.
Katy Tur
Age: 36
Net Worth: $3.8 Million
Kooiman got her first real taste of broadcast journalism while in college, as a sideline reporter for Fox Sports. From 2011 to 2015, she was an anchor and reporter for Fox News. Her last position with Fox News was as co-host on the weekend edition of Fox & Friends.
In 2015, Kooiman announced her engagement to Australian Tim Stuckey. As a result, she moved to his home country. Today, she works for Australia’s Network Ten.
Jemele Hill
Age: 37
Net Worth: $4 Million
Tur initially got her name out there working for New Brooklyn 12 and Fox 5 New York. After that, she worked as a Storm Chaser for The Weather Channel.
In 2009, she agreed to terms with NBC. Tur’s both an anchor and an author. Her book, titled My Front Row Seat To The Craziest Campaign In American History, was about her experience covering the 2016 elections.
Harris Faulkner
Age: 45
Net Worth: $4 Million
Sports anchor Hill is known for being outspoken and proud of her beliefs. She launched as a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel before starting to write for ESPN in 2006.
Since then, Hill has appeared on shows such as First Take, Outside the Lines, SportsCenter and The Sports Reporter. She has also co-hosted her own sports news program, His & Hers.
Gigi Stone Woods
Age: 55
Net Worth: $4 Million
Faulkner began her journalism career as a freelance writer for LA Weekly. She started small for TV, with an internship at KCOP-TV in Los Angeles.
Eventually, she became the first African-American woman to host a daily news show on a major cable news network. Faulkner has six Emmy awards and a salary of approximately $400,000 from Fox News.
Robin Meade
Age: 47
Net Worth: $4 Million
Stone Woods is an award-winning, national TV on-air host, anchor, correspondent and producer. She has ties to ABC, CBS, NBC and Bloomberg TV.
The Columbia University grad has a master’s degree in journalism. She’s also fluent in three languages and runs her own consulting business.
Andrea Mitchell
Age: 51
Net Worth: $4.5 Million
Meade is the lead anchor on the HLN show Morning Express with Robin Meade. She joined HLN in 2011 and makes more than $400,000 annually.
Another former beauty queen, Meade was the Miss Ohio winner prior to beginning her broadcasting career on radio. She has won an Emmy Award and even released two country music albums.
Jessica Savitch
Age: 74
Net Worth: $5 Million
Mitchell has been broadcasting for more than 50 years. She started in 1967 as a news director for WXPN, a student radio station.
Currently, Mitchell is a News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC. She has covered multiple presidential races over her tenure.
Tamron Hall
Age: 36 (deceased)
Net Worth: $5 Million
Savitch was one of the first women to anchor evening network news alone, without a male co-host. She anchored NBC Nightly News and was a daily presenter of NBC News updates.
Tragically, she passed away in a car accident during the prime of her career. She was only 36 years old when the wreck happened in October of 1983.
Margaret Brennan
Age: 50
Net Worth: $5 Million
Hall is an Emmy-winning broadcast journalist, executive producer and TV talk show host. In September of 2019, she debuted her self-titled award-winning syndicated daytime talk show.
She also hosts Deadline: Crime on the Investigation Discovery Channel. In the past, she was the national correspondent for NBC News, hosted the MSNBC show NewsNation with Tamron Hall and co-anchored Today’s Take.
Jenna Lee
Age: 40
Net Worth: $5 Million
Brennan is a journalist based in Washington, DC. She’s the current moderator of Face the Nation on CBS News and is the network’s senior foreign affairs correspondent.
Career highlights include big-name interviews with former presidents and Secretaries of State. She had these opportunities because she was a White House correspondent for CBS and has covered politics in the capitol since 2012.
Elizabeth Vargas
Age: 40
Net Worth: $5.5 Million
Lee enjoyed a successful career with Fox News, where she held multiple titles over the course of more than 10 years. She was first hired back in 2007 and was part of the original duo that hosted Fox Business Morning.
In 2010, she transferred to Fox News Channel. She worked for that channel until 2017, when she left to pursue other projects.
Sam Ryan
Age: 58
Net Worth: $6 Million
Vargas is the anchor of ABC’s 20/20. Prior to 2004 when she took that role, Vargas was featured on World News Tonight.
She’s now the lead investigative reporter and documentary anchor for A&E Networks. Vargas began that role in May of 2018.
Lara Logan
Age: 51
Net Worth: $6 Million
Among other awards, Ryan has an Emmy Award and an Associated Press Award. She’s the sports anchor for WABC-TV on the New York Eyewitness News’ weekend night broadcasts.
Ryan is a New York native, so it’s fitting that she’s the face of the network’s sports coverage. She earns in the neighborhood of $150,000 for her role.
Ainsley Earhardt
Age: 49
Net Worth: $6 Million
Logan is from South Africa. She’s known best as a war correspondent on CBS News’ 60 Minutes and has reported from several warzones, including both Afghanistan and Iraq.
In 2011, she was arrested by the Egyptian Army while covering the revolution. Logan has since earned her own program on Fox News Channel called No Agenda With Lara Logan.
Alisyn Camerota
Age: 44
Net Worth: $6 Million
South Carolina means a lot to Earhardt. Not only is she from there, but she also graduated from the University of South Carolina. Thereafter, she secured a role as a local news reporter for CBS.
Later, Earhardt was the weekday news anchor for KENS-TV Eyewitness News in San Antonio. In 2007, she went national when she was picked up by Fox News Channel.
Melissa Francis
Age: 54
Net Worth: $7.5 Million
Camerota has more than three decades of experience in the industry. Her news reporting has earned her two Emmy nominations.
The published author became well known during her 16-year tenure with Fox News Channel. Since 2013, Camerota has been working for CNN.
Martha MacCallum
Age: 48
Net Worth: $8 Million
At a young age, Francis was an actress and starred in Little House on the Prairie. When older, she added another profession and worked for both CNET and CNBC.
In 2012, she started working for Fox News Channel as a news anchor and financial news reporter. She still acts from time to time and has made appearances in movies like The Dictator and Race to Witch Mountain.
Georgie Thompson
Age: 56
Net Worth: $8 Million
MacCallum is the host of The Story with Martha MacCallum, which is based in Manhattan. The Fox News anchor brings home an estimated $700,000 per year.
She started out as an associate at Dow Jones & Company, before scoring her first reporter job at Corporate Finance magazine. In 2004, she made the move to TV reporting.
Rebecca Grant
Age: 43
Net Worth: $8 Million
Thompson is another English presenter to make the list. She’s one of the most successful reporters in her home country.
She specializes in sports and has worked as a presenter for Sky Sports News. Thompson took a job with Fox Sports in 2013 and has also worked for BBC.
Maria Menounos
Age: 52
Net Worth: $9 Million
Grant is another journalist who made a name for herself in the sports world. She started as the host for the Buffalo Bills NFL Show and eventually graduated to bigger networks.
She has worked for ESPN and Fox Sports. There’s somehow time for acting in her busy schedule, too. Grant has credits in movies and shows like 3rd Rock from the Sun, Apartment 23 and The District.
Linda Cohn
Age: 42
Net Worth: $9 Million
Menounos owns the ultimate ice breaker. Not only is she a journalist and TV host, but she’s also a WWE professional wrestler and a former beauty queen.
She has worked at several news stations like Channel One News, NBC and E! News. Menounos has been a TV correspondent for Today and Access Hollywood.
Michelle Kosinski
Age: 61
Net Worth: $10 Million
Cohn has worked with ESPN for nearly three decades and is one of the most recognizable names. She has co-hosted SportsCenter more times than anyone else in history.
Another New York native, Cohn loves her hometown teams. In 2014, she was named one of the 25 most influential women in sports.
Ann Curry
Age: 46
Net Worth: $10 Million
Kosinski is an Emmy award winner. She has covered the White House for CNN and was a London-based foreign correspondent for NBC News.
Currently, Kosinski appears on the podcast The Perfect Scam. She splits her time between the United States and Switzerland.
Sara Carbonero
Age: 64
Net Worth: $10 Million
Curry is another woman with a wealth of experience of more than three decades. Her focus is on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters. She has reported from the wars in Afghanistan, Congo, the Central African Republic, Darfur, Iraq, Israel, Kosovo, Lebanon and Syria.
She left NBC News in 2015 after a partnership of nearly 25 years. Recently, Curry was featured in a PBS mini-series, We’ll Meet Again.
Amy Robach
Age: 36
Net Worth: $10 Million
This Spanish sports journalist is well known where she’s from and is gaining recognition in other countries now, too. Surprisingly, she was only 16 years old when she started as a TV presenter for the channel Telecinco.
She used that experience as a way to build toward a journalism degree. Today, Carbonero covers mainly soccer and is even married to Iker Casillas, a professional soccer player.
Rachel Nichols
Age: 47
Net Worth: $10 Million
Robach is the breaking news anchor for Good Morning America on ABC. She’s also the co-anchor for the show 20/20.
In the past, she was a national correspondent for NBC News. She also co-hosted the Saturday edition of NBC’s Today and anchored for MSNBC.
Jackie Guerrido
Age: 47
Net Worth: $10 Million
Similar to Linda Cohn, Nichols is another iconic ESPN journalist and reporter. Nichols has anchored SportsCenter and also provided information from specific sporting events.
Currently, she hosts an NBA discussion show called The Jump. It covers news and stories from around the association and features a panel of NBA analysts and players.
Julie Banderas
Age: 48
Net Worth: $10 Million
Guerrido is a Puerto Rican TV weather forecaster and journalist. She agreed to a deal with Univision to co-host Primer Impacto for a salary of approximately $900,000.
She began her career in Miami on the radio. In 2010, her fame landed her on Mira Quien Balia (Dancing with the Stars), where she placed second and donated her prize money to a shelter for domestic violence.
Samantha Ponder
Age: 47
Net Worth: $12 Million
Bandera started her career at a small news station in Cambridge, Massachusetts shortly after graduating from Emerson College. In 2005, she scored big as a reporter for Fox News Channel.
Working various positions, she has been with Fox ever since. She used to host Fox Report Weekend until making her move to a weekday anchor role.
Christiane Amanpour
Age: 35
Net Worth: $12.5 Million
Ponder is the host of Sunday NFL Countdown on ESPN. She previously replaced Erin Andrews, another woman on this list, on College GameDay.
In 2012, she married former NFL quarterback Christian Ponder. These days, she reportedly makes nearly $5 million through her various jobs.
Natalie Morales
Age: 62
Net Worth: $12.5 Million
Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist and TV host. She’s the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International’s interview program Amanpour. She also hosts Amanpour & Company on PBS.
Her trophy closet includes the 1998 George Foster Peabody Personal Award for International Reporting. Also, Forbes has her name on its list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
Erin Burnett
Age: 48
Net Worth: $16 Million
Morales works for NBC News. She’s the Today Show West Coast anchor and appears on other programs like Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News.
She is bilingual and has fans around the world, thanks in part to her upbringing. Morales was born in Taiwan, but is of Brazilian and Puerto Rican descent.
Nancy O’Dell
Age: 44
Net Worth: $16 Million
Burnett has her own show titled Erin Burnett OutFront on CNN. On The Celebrity Apprentice, she was an advisor to the future President.
She previously worked for CNBC as the co-anchor of Squawk on the Street and was the host of Street Signs. Over the course of her career, she has reported across the globe and was even given the nickname “The International Superstar” during her time with NBC.
Suzy Kolber
Age: 54
Net Worth: $16 Million
Another former beauty queen, O’Dell was Miss South Carolina. She eventually secured a role with Access Hollywood.
O’Dell was co-anchor of the entertainment news show Entertainment Tonight. She hosted from January of 2011 all the way until August of 2019.
Melissa Theuriau
Age: 56
Net Worth: $18 Million
Kolber is another trailblazer in the sports industry. She’s one of ESPN’s most popular reporters. Before working for ESPN, she was a producer on WTVJ-TV in Miami and even won a local Sports Emmy
She has worked on a multitude of major productions. Some of those include Monday Night Countdown, Monday Night Football and Sunday Night Football. She has also covered huge events like the French Open, the Summer X Games and the Winter X Games.
Deborah Norville
Age: 42
Net Worth: $18 Million
Theuriau is a French journalist and news anchor for M6. Initially, she became known in the industry from her time as editor-in-chief for the magazine Zone Interdite.
While she mainly reports on news and current affairs, she also works with UNICEF. There, she leads La Rose, an organization that provides education to underprivileged girls.
Norah O’Donnell
Age: 62
Net Worth: $18 Million
Norville has been the anchor of Inside Edition for more than a quarter of a century. Also, she’s a member of the board of directors of ViacomCBS.
On top of that, she also wrote a New York Times best-seller called Thank You Power. Norville even markets and sells a line of yarns, the Deborah Norville Collection, for knit and crochet fans.
Mika Brzezinski
Age: 46
Net Worth: $18 Million
O’Donnell is the anchor of the CBS Evening News and a correspondent for 60 Minutes. In the past, she was a co-anchor for CBS This Morning and a Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News.
Oddly enough, O’Donnell didn’t study the usual curriculum for those who want to end up in her field. She has a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a master’s degree in liberal studies.
Abby Huntsman
Age: 53
Net Worth: $20 Million
Brzezinski is the co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC. She’s a firm believer in women’s equality, so it makes sense that she fought for the same pay as her husband and co-host, Joe Scarborough.
Sources state that the couple makes $8 million between them for their show. In addition to her main work, Brzezinski has authored three books.
Maria Bartiromo
Age: 34
Net Worth: $20 Million
Another woman who got her start in the industry at a young age, Huntsman started working for Good Morning America when she was only 16 years old. While she didn’t like her role, it helped her get a future job as a host on MSNBC.
In 2018, she became a co-host of The View and left the Mormon Church. She’s the daughter of former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. and is estimated to make around $3 million annually.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Age: 53
Net Worth: $22 Million
Bartiromo is the host of Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street on the Fox Business channel, as well as Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo on Fox News. She spent five years at CNN, then went to CNBC before joining Fox Business Network.
Specializing in financial topics, she was the first reporter to broadcast live from the New York Stock Exchange. Her salary is estimated to be nearly $6 million.
Rachel Maddow
Age: 51
Net Worth: $25 Million
A former attorney, Guilfoyle jumped over to be a news anchor. From 2011 to 2018, she was a popular co-host for Fox News Channel’s The Five. She has also contributed to Hannity and The O’Reilly Factor.
She serves as an advisor to Donald Trump. From 2004 to 2006, she was the First Lady of San Francisco when her ex-husband Gavin Newsom was in office.
Savannah Guthrie
Age: 47
Net Worth: $25 Million
Maddow hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a nightly show on MSNBC. She also serves as the network’s special event co-anchor with Brian Williams.
She obtained degrees from both Stanford and Oxford University. Also, she’s the first open member of the LGBTQ community to anchor a primetime news program.
Erin Andrews
Age: 49
Net Worth: $25 Million
Guthrie was born in Australia, but has added to her fortune in the United States as a broadcast journalist and attorney. Since 2012, she has co-anchored the NBC News morning show Today.
She joined NBC News in 2007 as a legal analyst and correspondent and reported on trials throughout the country. Guthrie was even a White House correspondent at one point.
Hoda Kotb
Age: 42
Net Worth: $30 Million
Andrews rose to prominence as a correspondent on ESPN after joining the network in 2004. She is almost the wealthiest of all the women of ESPN.
Outside of the sports world, she has also worked on Good Morning America. In 2010, she gained further recognition from finishing in third place on the 10th season of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and eventually co-hosted the show from 2014 to 2019 with Tom Bergeron.
Trish Regan
Age: 56
Net Worth: $30 Million
Kotb began her career with NBC in 1998 as a correspondent on Dateline. Eventually, she was selected to co-anchor the NBC News show Today.
She is of Egyptian descent. In her autobiography, which was a New York Times best-seller, Kotb went into detail about her background and her family vacations to Egypt.
Greta Van Susteren
Age: 48
Net Worth: $30 Million
Regan is a talk show host and author. She hosted Trish Regan Primetime on the Fox Business Network from 2015 until early 2020. Before that, she was a host on Bloomberg Television and CNBC.
She has made numerous guest appearances for other shows. Prior to making it in the reporting field, Regan worked in investment banking.
Chelsea Handler
Age: 66
Net Worth: $35 Million
Van Susteren is a commentator, lawyer and former TV news anchor for CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. She hosted Fox News’ On the Record with Greta Van Susteren for 14 years before departing for MSNBC, where she hosted For the Record with Greta.
A former criminal defense and civil trial lawyer, she was a legal analyst on CNN and co-hosted Burden of Proof with Roger Cossack. In 2016, she was listed as the 94th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
Robin Roberts
Age: 45
Net Worth: $35 Million
Handler is a comedian, actress, writer, TV host, producer and activist. From 2007 to 2015, she hosted Chelsea Lately on the E! network. She also released a docuseries, Chelsea Does, on Netflix.
While she’s not a traditional anchor, she has covered the news in a comedic sense. In 2012, Time magazine named her one of the world’s most influential people.
Meredith Vieira
Age: 60
Net Worth: $35 Million
Roberts helps anchor Good Morning America and has done so since 2005. She’s a firm supporter of the LGBTQ community. Before becoming super famous, she was a sports anchor for local TV and radio stations. Later, she was a sportscaster on ESPN for 15 years.
In 2008, Roberts was the first reporter to interview newly-elected president Obama. These days, she has an estimated salary of $18 million.
Jane Pauley
Age: 67
Net Worth: $40 Million
Vieira is best known for her roles as the original moderator of The View, the original host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and the co-host NBC’s Today.
In 2014, she started The Meredith Vieira Show. Over the years, she has contributed to Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News, among others. She currently hosts the game show 25 Words or Less.
Krystal Ball
Age: 70
Net Worth: $40 Million
Reporting since 1972, Pauley is one of the most experienced and respected anchors in the United States. She anchored NBC’s Today for 13 years and also co-hosted Dateline NBC for 12 years.
Currently, she anchors CBS Sunday Morning. She has publicly discussed her battles with bipolar disorder, showing how it can impact anybody.
Megyn Kelly
Age: 39
Net Worth: $44 Million
Ball has arguably the best name on this list. Her name was selected by her dad, a physicist who wrote his dissertation on crystals. This political pundit and journalist co-hosts Rising with the Hill’s Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti.
After trying to run for congress, she decided to work for MSNBC. It worked out quite well for her and she has also appeared on CNBC, CNN, Fox News and Real Time with Bill Maher.
Diane Sawyer
Age: 50
Net Worth: $45 Million
Kelly is both a journalist and attorney. From 2004 to 2017, she was a news anchor at Fox News. Then, she hosted NBC News.
These days, Kelly produces a podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show. She’s also active on social media, including Instagram and YouTube.
Katie Couric
Age: 75
Net Worth: $80 Million
Sawyer has more than 50 years of experience under her belt. She has anchored for ABC World News and Good Morning America. In 1984, she was the first female correspondent on 60 Minutes.
Early on, she was a member of President Nixon’s White House staff and helped develop his memoirs. Currently, she works for ABC News, where she produces documentaries and interview specials.
Maria Shriver
Age: 63
Net Worth: $100 Million
Very few people, regardless of gender, have worked for ABC, CBS and NBC. Couric is one of them. Some titles held by Couric include: TV and online journalist, presenter, producer and author.
She also founded Katie Couric Media and publishes Wake Up Call, a daily newsletter. From 2013 to 2017, Couric was the Global News Anchor for Yahoo.
Kelly Ripa
Age: 65
Net Worth: $120 Million
This member of the Kennedy family has worked as a TV producer, screenwriter, voice actor, author and philanthropist. Shriver’s currently a special anchor and correspondent for NBC News.
The former First Lady of California was famously married to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unfortunately, they divorced in 2011 after it was discovered that he cheated.
Barbara Walters
Age: 50
Net Worth: $120 Million
Ripa started off as an actress, when she played Hayley Vaughan on All My Children. She also had the role of Faith Fairfield in Hope & Faith.
Later, she teamed up on Live! with Regis Philbin to co-host. After Philbin’s unfortunate passing, Ripa teamed with Ryan Seacrest to create Live! with Kelly and Ryan.
Age: 91
Net Worth: $170 Million
The queen of reporters is none other than Walters. She worked from 1952 all the way through to 2015. Over the course of her decorated career, she was the host of programs like Today, The View, 20/20 and the ABC Evening News.
In 2000, Walters received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Her final on-air interview was of presidential candidate Donald Trump for ABC News in December of 2015.