Tanja Babich Biography
Tanja Babich is a Canadian Emmy-Award-Winning Reporter/Anchor working for ABC 7 News as a Morning Anchor where she anchors the News from 4:30 to 7 am and later the news from 11 am to noon. She however joined the station in January 2014 as a general assignment reporter and contributing anchor.
Tanja Babich Date of Birth / Birthday
Babich was born on the 29th of June 1980 in Toronto, Canada. She is 41 years old in 2021.
Tanja Babich Measurements/Height
She stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 3 inches.
Tanja Babich Partner/ Husband
She is married to her lovely husband, Paul Durbin. The duo tied the knot on the 8th of July 2018. The duo had only been dating for about three months before tieing the knot.
Tanja Babich Kids/Children
Together, they are proud parents to three daughters, namely, Lola Babichwhom and Adelaide Babich she got in the previous relationship that she prefers to keep away from the limelight. In addition, together with Paul, they have a daughter named Josephine Emily, who was born on the 22nd of May 2019. Together, the family resides in Chicago.
Tanja Babich Relatives/ Family
She is a proud immigrant and a daughter of Chilean and Serbian origin. She proudly spoke of her origin in April of 2013 when she obtained her official American nationality. Babich moved to the United States as a first-generation college student. She however shares no information regarding her parents’ names or whether or not she has any siblings. Tanja however posted a picture of her grandparents on her Instagram account on the 20th of March 2021.
Tanja Babich Schooling/Education
Babich is a proud graduate of Cornell University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Government. As a result of her fluent French in addition to speaking Spanish and Serbian, she was about to become an intelligence officer. However, a well-timed public speaking engagement captured the attention of a city official who rather suggested a career in the broadcasting field. It is at this time that she applied and was ultimately accepted to take a Master’s Degree at Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School of Journalism.
Tanja Babich Profession
She was later promoted to the morning news anchor in the month of September 2016 and later added the midday newscasts to her roles in June 2018. Babich brings forth years of morning news experience and a rich cultural perspective to the viewers in Chicago.
Prior to joining ABC News, she was working as an anchor in Syracuse, New York’s top-rated morning newscast, where she was working for WSYR-TV for about three years. Previously, she was also juggling the morning news reporting with hosting the market’s only weekday morning talk show, titled Bridge Street. This show highlighted community events, trends, and people.
Her most exhilarating news experience involved about an hour and a-half long flight with the U.S.A.F Thunderbirds where she at one point clocked 9.4Gs. She has a great love for adventure despite the fact that her stomach is not situated for that.
Among her other career highlights includes reporting on President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, and helping thousands of tradesmen and women to track down the person responsible for half a billion dollars of labor union losses in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. This is in addition to covering the following Pope Francis on his first visit to the U.S. Above all, she took a challenging role but yet she feels honored to be given such a role, which is helping the people of Chicago navigate the unprecedented challenges posed by the Covid-pandemic among other modern civil rights movement.
She is aware of the privileges that her work offers and usually tries to pay it forward. In addition, she is a proud member of HFS Chicago Scholars. This is a group that provides financial and mentoring support p[programs to deserving area high school students in addition to being the founder of Lake Affect Chicago, Camp Wandawega in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, and kids camping retreat in partnership with The Wood Family Foundation.
In addition, she has enjoyed lending her voice in order to narrate the stories of exceptional women in history on two episodes of Goodnight Stories for the Rebel Girls podcast. She is a proud member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Tanja Babich Income
Babich receives an annual income ranging between $30,000 and $90,000.
Tanja Babich Net Worth
Through Babich’s career as a Reporter/Anchor, she has been able to accumulate a net worth that ranges between $ 1 million and $1.5 million.
Tanja Babich Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Babich is active on her social media accounts. She has about 34,000 followers on her Facebook Page, about 8,020 on her Twitter account, and around 15,700 followers on her Instagram account.