John King Biography
John King is an American news anchor and an award-winning journalist who has covered and reported on many presidential elections. He is a chief national correspondent and also an inside politics anchor who features a panel of top-tier political correspondents every Sunday morning for half an hour. In another segment of inside politics, he anchors CNN’s Newsday every weekday in the morning.
John King Date of Birth / Birthday
King was born on August 30th, 1963, in Dorchester Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He is 58 years old as of 2021.
John King Measurements/Height
King stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 8 inches.
John King Partner/Wife
King has two ex-wives, to whom he was happily married. His first wife was Jean Makie and his second wife was Dana Bash. After his second divorce, King may have dated, but information about his third marriage is unknown.
John King Kids/Children
King has three children, Noah King, Hannah King, and Jonah Frank King. Two children from his first marriage and one child from his second marriage.
John King Relatives/Family
King’s parents died while he was still young, and he has six siblings, four brothers, and two sisters. He married and divorced his first wife Jean Makie, with whom they had sired two children, Noah and Hannah, married again Dana Bash and sired the third child Jonah then divorced her in 2012. Information about his current marital status is unknown.
John King Schooling/Education
King studied at Boston Latin School, in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism.
John King Profession
King is based in Washington D.C.Being the chief national correspondent of CNN, he anchors CNN’s daily reports and breaking news coverage. Popularly America’s choice of over 6 presidential elections. In 2012 elections coverage King moderated three presidential primary debates from the trial.
Kings Network’s Emmy award-winning 2012 night coverage election was very much impacted by his analysis and use of the “Magic Wall”. He anchored King, USA, and launched a State of the Union with King, a Sunday news program about politics. This particular program made him visit 50 states in 52 weeks to cover and report on the first year of the Obama presidency.
King was a member of CNN’s Peabody Award-winning political team in 2008, after breaking the news of Barack Obama, who had chosen Joe Biden as his vice-presidential running mate. He also moderated serious gubernatorial debates in both Florida and Massachusetts in the 2010 election cycle.
John joined CNN in 1977, in the year 2005 he became a chief national correspondent and served as the senior White House correspondent from 1999 to 2005 for CNN. During this period he reported on the Iraq war and the terrorist attacks of September 11th.
In 2002 when the Bush administration began to strategize support for confronting Saddam Hussein, King had also traveled with Vice President Dick Cheney to the Middle East. He also traveled with the then Secretary of State Colin Powell to most of the South Asian countries and took time to cover all the disasters and the aftermath of the tsunami that took many lives in the region.
King interviewed President Clinton during his historic 2000 trip to Vietnam face to face and had another exclusive interview with President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair in Birmingham, England in 1988. He covered Vice Presidents AI Gore during the post-election controversy and in the closing weeks of the 2000 campaign.
King is known for both domestic and international events, for example, the U.S. military operation to restore the Aristide government to Haiti and the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa. He also covered the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and received a Top-reporting price for his coverage from the Associated Press Editor’s Association.
John King Salary
King earns an annual salary approximating between $30,000 – $90,000.
John King Net Worth
King’s net worth is approximately $1million-5million which he/she has earned through hard work as a journalist.
John King Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
King is active on his social media accounts. He has about 88,560 followers on his Facebook Page, about 586,755 followers on his Twitter account, and around 67,850 followers on his Instagram account.