Fredricka Whitfield Bio, Age, Height, Husband, Salary, Net Worth CNN

Fredricka Whitfield
Fredricka Whitfield

Fredricka Whitfield Biography

Fredricka Whitfield works at CNN News based in Atlanta, GA as an anchor. Also, she works on the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom as an anchor. Before she worked for NBC News as a correspondent, additionally, she worked for Dateline NBC, The Today Show, and NBC Nightly News as an Atlanta-based correspondent.

Fredricka Whitfield Age

Fredricka was born in Nairobi, Kenya (But other sources suggest that she was born in Maryland, USA) on May 31, 1965. She is 56 years old.

Fredricka Whitfield Height

Whitfield stands at a moderate height of 5 feet 9 inches/1.8 m tall.

Fredricka Whitfield Education

Fredricka finished her high school course at the Paint Branch High in Burtonsville. Then she studied and graduated from Haward University School of Communication, with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism in 1987. She worked at WHUR, the campus radio station as a news anchor, while she was still at the University.

Fredricka Whitfield Family

Fredricka’s dad is Malvin Greston Whitfield, who was an American Athlete and Olympic-medalist, then became a career U.S diplomat for more than thirty years, he died on November 18, 2015, and her mom Nola Whitfield. Also, she grew up together with Nyna Konishi and Lonnie Whitfield her siblings.

Fredricka Whitfield Husband

Whitfield is a married woman to John Glenn who works at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as the director of photography. They exchanged vows in 1999 and together they have three kids; fraternal twins Nola and Gilbert and a son born in 2005.

Fredricka Whitfield Salary

Whitefield annually receives a salary of $95,000. This is according to CNN anchors/reporters salaries.

Fredricka Whitfield Net Worth

Whitefield has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.

Fredricka Whitfield Career

Fredricka Whitfield works at CNN News based in Atlanta, GA as an anchor. Also, she works on the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom as an anchor. Before she worked for NBC News as a correspondent, additionally, she worked for Dateline NBC, The Today Show, and NBC Nightly News as an Atlanta-based correspondent. Previously she worked at WPLG-TV in Miami as a reporter and anchor.

Additionally, she worked in WTNH in New Haven, Conn, and KTVT-TV in Dallas, as a general assignment reporter and in Washington, D.C, at News Channel 8 as an evening anchor, her career started as a reporter and morning anchor in Charleston, S.C, at WCIV. In addition, she has earned different awards like for CNN’s coverage of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia at the 2004 Alfred I. Dupont Award and the 2002 Howard University School of Communications Alumna of the year, among many other awards.
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