Cynthia McFadden Biography
Cynthia McFadden is an American Emmy award-winning correspondent and anchor/reporter working at MSNBC and NBC News. She serves as the senior legal and investigative correspondent.
Cynthia McFadden Age
McFadden is 65 years old as of 2021. She was born on May 27, 1956, in Lewiston, Maine, United States. She celebrates her birthday on the 27th of May every year.
Cynthia McFadden Height
McFadden stands at a height of 5 feet 4 inches tall.
Cynthia McFadden Family
McFadden has managed to keep her personal life away from the limelight hence she has not disclosed any information about her parents. It is also not known if McFadden has any siblings.
Cynthia McFadden Husband
McFadden is a divorced woman. She was previously married to Michael Davies in September 1989, and the couple later got divorced in 1996. While they were together they were blessed with a son who they named Spencer Graham McFadden Hoge born in 1998 and named after the actor Spencer Tracy.
Cynthia McFadden Net Worth
McFadden has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million – $5 Million which she has earned through her career as an anchor.
Cynthia McFadden Salary
McFadden earns an annual salary ranging from $ 45,000 – $ 110,500.
Cynthia McFadden Education
She attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in 1978. Later on, she attended Columbia Law School in New York City where she graduated in 1984, with a Juris Doctorate degree.
Cynthia McFadden Career
McFadden serves at NBC News and MSNBC as the senior legal and investigative correspondent, contributing to NBC’s investigative unit across all NBC News platforms. She joined NBC News in March 2014. Before joining the NBC network, she worked at ABC News as an anchor and correspondent where she co-anchored Nightline and appeared on ABC News Primetime.
In 2004, she served as an anchor of Primetime where she substituted for Ted Koppel on various occasions. In her career, she has had several interviews with celebrities such as Judge Judy Sheindlin, Paul McCartney, and Clint Eastwood, past and present leaders like Tony Blair, and Pervez Musharraf, and five interviews with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
After twenty years at ABC News, she left the station and joined NBC on March 29, 2014. Prior to, joining ABC News serving as the network’s legal correspondent in 1994. While in college, she was the executive producer of Fred Friendly’s Media and Society seminars based at Columbia from 1984 to 1991. From there she served as an anchor and producer for Courtroom Television Network.
Furthermore, she contributes to a website for women to discuss culture, politics, and gossip called wowOwow.com which was launched in 2008. In addition, she has co-hosted and hosted several species and documentaries on ABC. In the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) she serves as the co-chair of its board.
In her career as a journalist, she has received several awards such as; the George Foster Peabody Award in 1985, twice she received the Cine Golden Eagles award, the Ohio State Award, Silver Gavels from the American Bar Association, Grand Award of the New York Festival, THE blue Ribbon of the American Film Festival, and the Gerald Loeb Award for Video in 2002.
Cynthia McFadden MSNBC
McFadden is working at MSNBC where she works alongside other famous MSNBC anchors and reporters including;
- Lawrence O’Donnell
- Kelly O’Donnell
- Kristen Welker
- Peter Alexander
- Kasie Hunt
- Monica Alba
- Carol Lee
- Garret Haake
- Savannah Guthrie
- Marrianna Sotomayor
- Mike Memoli
- Steve Patterson
- Morgan Radford
- Lester Holt
- Geoff Bennett
- Steve Schmidt
- Richard Lui
- Ali Velshi
- Kate Snow
- Jacob Soboroff
- Heldi Przybyla
- Josh Lederman
- Leigh Ann Caldwell
- Tamron Hall
- Jason Johnson
- Eugene Robinson
- Nicolle Wallace
- Chuck Todd
- Steve Kornack
- Rachel Maddow
- Yasmin Vossoughian
- Joshua Johnson
- Lindsey Reiser
- Alicia Menendez
- Chris Jansing
- Savannah Sellers
- Brian Williams
- Alex Witt
- Cori Coffin
- Kendis Gibson
- Ayman Mohyeldin
- Katy Tur
- Andrea Mitchell
- Craig Melvin
- Hallie Jackson
- Stephanie Ruhle
Cynthia McFadden Social Media Platforms
McFadden is active on her social media accounts and is often seen posting on her Instagram, and Twitter. She has over 57k followers on Twitter, and over 7k followers on Instagram.