Ian James Lee Biography
Ian James Lee is an American journalist working for CBS News in Britain. He previously worked for CNN before joining CBS, and from 2009 to 2011, Lee served as the multimedia editor for the Daily News Egypt.
Ian James Lee Age
Lee is 38 years old as of 2022. He was born in 1984 in Lander, Wyoming, United States.
Ian James Lee Height
Lee stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches.
Ian James Lee Family
Lee has not shared any information regarding his loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.
Ian James Lee Wife
On July 1, 2016, Lee wed Holly Dagres in a small ceremony on a Wyoming ranch. They first connected in Cairo, Egypt.
Ian James Lee Education
Lee earned a journalism bachelor’s degree and certificates in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2007. He received approval to participate in an internship program supported by the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. Lee was one of the 12 Arizona State University graduates that were awarded a Fulbright grant in 2008. He spent a year at American University in Cairo, Egypt, researching the variations in reporting between English- and Arabic-language publications.
Ian James Lee Salary
Lee annual compensation ranges from $20,000 to $100,000. His net worth ranges from $1 million to $5,000,000. He was hired in 2016 as a foreign affairs journalist by CBS.
Ian James Lee Net Worth
Lee has also not declared his net worth to the public as of now. Nonetheless, there is no doubt that he has been able to accumulate a good figure in terms of his net worth throughout his career in the film industry. However, we will update the site as soon as we get more information on the same.
Ian James Lee Career
Following a church bombing in Alexandria, Egypt, on New Year’s Eve 2010, Lee started working for CNN. The book A Twitter Year: 365 Days in 140 Characters by Kate Bussmann quotes one of Lee’s Tweets from the January 25 Revolution. As part of the blogs, Twitter feeds, local and regional media coverage, and other websites associated to the January 25th Revolution, Lee’s Tweets are also kept by the Rare Books and Special Collections Library of the American University in Cairo. Lee is cited in Susan Green, Mark Lodato, B. William Silcock, and Carol Schwalbe’s News Now: Visual Storytelling in the Digital Age.
Lee sustained injuries in Sirte while reporting the 2011 Libyan Revolution when a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) detonated right next to him. It killed the ambulance driver and wounded his leg with shrapnel.
CNN’s Lee frequently covered the Al Jazeera English news channel while Al-Jazeera journalists were being held by Egypt from 2013 to 2015 as a gesture of support for the detained journalists. The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo’s Scorpion Prison to Freedom by Mohamed Fahmy details Lee’s reportage of the Al Jazeera trial. Lee covered the August 21, 2017, solar eclipse on aboard the Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas in the Atlantic Ocean. While on the cruise ship and witnessing totality, he went on Anderson Cooper 360°.
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