Norah O’Donnell, the celebrity personality of the American print and television journalism industry, was born on 23 January 1974, in Washington D.C. of Irish descent. Apart from many other achievements, she is particularly well-known as the co-anchor of CBS’ ‘This Morning’ and has accumulated a large part of her net worth from the show.
So can you have any guesses about how rich is Norah O’Donnell? According to sources, Norah’s net worth is somewhere near $8 million, which primarily comes from anchoring and hosting various news channel programs.
Norah O’Donnell Net Worth $8 Million
Norah was brought up in San Antonio, Texas, to where her doctor father moved when she was three. She did her schooling at Douglas MacArthur High School, and then graduation and post graduation from Georgetown University in Philosophy and Liberal Studies, respectively. Soon after completing her studies, she jumped into the field of journalism, for which she had had a passion since childhood. She started her career as a staff writer for Roll Call in Congress, but then she started working for NBC News and MSNBC owing to her extraordinary reporting and presentation skills. Norah worked there from 1999-2011 and this entire period not only augmented her knowledge and experience but also added a significant amount to her net worth.
Norah became very successful and well-liked in the arena, as apart from being multi-talented, she is apparently one of the most elegant, sexy and good looking personalities on TV. She worked as Washington Bureau Correspondent, Weekend Today News anchor and MSNBC Live anchor. For two years she also worked in the post of Dateline NBC contributing correspondent.
Norah became Chief White House correspondent for the channel in 2005, and worked on this post in excess of six years. In 2011, she left the channel and joined CBS news where she again worked in the same post. Gradually she switched to anchoring the ‘CBS Evening News’, ‘CBS This Morning’ and the ‘Face The Nation’ shows, which are continued to date.
Norah has several other shows to her credit as well , including the most renowned of all — the ‘Today Show’. In her long career, she has been very successful throughout and the high pay rates have been making her net worth higher than the majority of the people involved in the same field of work.
She has won the Sigma Delta Chi award for Breaking News Coverage and an Emmy for NBC News Election Night Coverage. She was also among the 100 Most Powerful Women list published by the Washington magazine and was also in the Top 100 Irish Americans list issued by the Irish American magazine 2000. Norah has also faced criticism a few times in her long career.
In her personal life, Norah married her restaurateur boyfriend Geoff Tracy in 2001 and has two daughters and a son with him. She along with Geoff wrote a cookbook for parents of small kids in 2010, thus adding further to her net worth. Being a media person she is fairly active on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and has a gigantic fan following. She tweets quite frequently giving her opinions on a variety of social and political issues.
