Ed O’Keefe Biography
Ed O’Keefe is a Guatemalan-American journalist who works for CBS News as a senior White House and political correspondent, covering all CBS News platforms. He joined CBS News in 2018 after nearly 13 years at The Washington Post.
Ed O’Keefe Age
O’Keefe is 38 years old as of 2021. He was born on 28 March 1983 in Albany, New York, United States.
Ed O’Keefe Height
O’Keefe stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.72 m).
Ed O’Keefe Family
O’Keefe was born to Jim O’keefe and Sonia O’keefe. Delmar is where his parents live. His mother is from Guatemala, while his father grew up in the Berkshires.
Ed O’Keefe Wife
O’keefe is married to Valerie O’keefe. The pair met while studying abroad in London as teenagers. Emilia O’keefe, Ed’s daughter, was born to him and his wife.
Ed O’Keefe Education
O’Keefe attended Bethlehem Central High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. O’Keefe graduated from American University’s School of Public Affairs with a bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary studies (Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government) in 2005.
Ed O’Keefe Salary
O’Keefe earns an average salary of $79,815 thousand.
Ed O’Keefe Net Worth
O’Keefe has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Ed O’Keefe Career
Ed O’Keefe was appointed as a home page editor by The Washington Post in 2005. Later, he worked as a producer and on-air contributor for Washington Post Radio before covering the 2008 presidential campaign as a multiplatform reporter, contributing blog reports and video dispatches from the campaign trail while also producing and hosting “The Post Politics Podcast,” which aired on Sirius XM’s POTUS Channel. Following the elections, he spent four years as the author of The Federal Eye blog, covering federal agencies and workers. He covered the conflict in Iraq for a portion of the summer of 2011 before moving on to Congress. He covered the 2016 presidential campaign, focusing on Republican contenders, before returning to Capitol Hill coverage.
He was a frequent guest or participant on news shows on BBC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, France 24, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, and Sirius/XM before joining CBS News. In 2017, O’Keefe began contributing to CBS News, and in 2018, he became a full-time political correspondent in Washington. He continues to appear on the PBS program Washington Week as a panelist on occasion, including as co-moderator at times.
Since joining CBS News, O’Keefe has reported from across the country on the 2018 midterm elections and contributed to coverage of other major events in Washington, including the State of the Union, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, dramatic testimony from former Donald Trump associate Michael Cohen, and the funerals of former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and former President George H.W. Bush.
O’Keefe spoke with numerous contenders, including Democrats Steve Bullock, Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, as well as Republicans William Weld, in the early months of the 2020 presidential campaign cycle. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan told O’Keefe in his first national television interview on the issue that he was seriously considering a Republican primary challenge to President Trump but later backed out. In the early stages of Howard Schultz’s exploratory phase, O’Keefe spoke with the former Starbucks CEO.
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