Brooke Baldwin is a renowned journalist from America, who hosts CNN Newsroom for two hours from 2PM to 4PM on the said channel. Her work is known throughout America as she has covered various stories and breaking news for CNN. She had once flown to Kenya, to interview Dr Auma Obama before President Barack Obama’s presidential election. Dr Auma is Barack Obama’s half-sister and Kenya is his ancestral home. Brooke has also covered the dreadful Japan earthquake, death of Osama Bin Laden and many more stories.
Early life and Background
Born on 21st July 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia, Baldwin has done her schooling from The Westminster School. Brooke loves public speaking and has some great leadership skills. Baldwin has a double graduation degree for Spanish and Journalism from University of North Carolina situated in Chapel Hill. During her undergraduate years in University of North Carolina, she also studied in Universidad Iberoamericana located at Mexico City. She gives credit to her school Westminster for teaching her things that has shaped her response in adult life.
Career
Brooke Baldwin is a beautiful and skillful anchor who started her career at WVIR-TV situated in Charlottesville, Virginia. Later she worked as an anchor in the morning hour at WOWK-TV at West Virginia area. She then joined as the main reporter for WTTG in Washington DC for the 10 pm show.
She joined HLN and CNN networks in the year 2008. She also hosted central time countdown from Tennessee as New Year’s Eve Coverage for CNN 2011.
January 2012 was the time when she held a half an hour session of a music program which was named Soundcheck. It had featured Mumford & Sons, Mavis, Vilco, Janelle Monae and Ben Sollee. In the same year, she covered Connecticut shooting that took place in Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Piers Morgan and Brooke Baldwin covered the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee celebration (2012) held in London. She was reportedly criticized for her work during the Baltimore Protests (2015) where she said that all the veterans were responsible for the unrest and violence. She later apologized for what she had said.
Brooke Baldwin – Husband
Brooke had a relationship with Jay David and later married him after dating for seven long years. Jay is veterinarian. They got engaged in 2010, followed by marriage in the same year. They do not have any children yet but are having a happy married life. They had once said that they are against the concept of divorce.
There was also a rumor about the 1.75 meter tall Brooke getting a divorce from her husband Jay David. But they denied all such rumors by saying that they will never consider separation and divorce.
Brooke Baldwin – Net Worth and Salary
Brooke’s net worth is reportedly $1.3 million and her annual salary is estimated to be $1.5 million according to some websites.
House
She stays in a beautiful house West Village, a place in New York.