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John King is an American news anchor. He is CNN’s chief national correspondent, based in Washington, D.C., and is the weekday anchor of its roundtable political discussion program Inside Politics.
John King age
He is 59 years old. He was born on August 30, 1963.
John King biography
King was a Boston native. He has Dn Locháin, County Galway, native ancestors and is of Irish origin. He attended Boston Latin School and graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor’s in journalism. Noah and Hannah were born to John King and his first wife, Jean Makie.
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King wed his second wife, CNN anchor Dana Bash, on May 25, 2008. King, a former Roman Catholic, converted to Bash’s religion of Judaism before they wed.
Jonah, the son of Bash and King, was born in June 2011. Married people parted ways in March 2012. King stated on his show Inside Politics on October 19, 2021, that he has multiple sclerosis and is hence immunocompromised.
The following day, on October 20, 2021, King disclosed that he has had multiple sclerosis for 13 years when CNN New Day host John Berman inquired about it.
King began his career as a writer when he joined the Associated Press in 1985. King oversaw the AP’s political coverage of the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections after being elected chief political correspondent in 1991. King covered the Gulf War in Kuwait and was awarded the top reporting honour from the Associated Press Managing Editors’ Association in 1991.
What is John King net worth?
John King is an American journalist and producer who has a net worth of $7 million. King joined CNN in 1997 and worked there from 1999 to 2005 as the network’s senior White House correspondent. King currently serves as CNN’s top national reporter, a post he was given to in 2005.
