John Dickerson Biography
John Dickerson is a CBS News reporter in the United States. His current projects include 60 Minutes and CBS News election specials. He most recently co-hosted CBS This Morning with Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King.
John Dickerson Age
Dickerson is 53 years old as of 2021. He was born John Frederick Dickerson on 6 July 1968 in Washington, D.C., United States.
John Dickerson Height and Weight
Dickerson stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches and weighs is 61 kg.
John Dickerson Family
Dickerson is the son of Claude Wyatt Dickerson and Nancy Dickerson (née Hanschman; later Whitehead), a journalist. He is the eldest of four siblings, with three sisters and one brother.
John Dickerson Wife
Dickerson is married to Anne Dickerson. The couple married at the University of Virginia, Virginia, United States. They have two children; Brice Dickerson and Nancy Dickerson.
John Dickerson Education
Dickerson grew up at Merrywood, a Georgian-style mansion high on a leafy bluff overlooking the Potomac River in McLean, Virginia. Dickerson graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1987 and earned a bachelor’s degree in English with honors from the University of Virginia.
John Dickerson Salary
Dickerson earns an annual salary of $1 Million.
John Dickerson Net Worth
Dickerson has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.
John Dickerson CIA leak Case
Dickerson co-wrote a July 2003 article in which senior Bush administration officials were blamed for Valerie Plame’s CIA identity. During the Scooter Libby trial in 2007, Ari Fleischer named Dickerson as one of two reporters to whom he revealed her identity. Dickerson has challenged Fleischer’s account, claiming that while Fleischer urged him to investigate who sent Wilson, he did not mention Plame or her identity.
John Dickerson Style
His colleagues have coined a phrase to describe cleverly phrased, seemingly harmless, but incisive questions: Dickerson asked Hillary Clinton in 2008 what foreign policy moment in her career had put her to the test. The question elicited a “pregnant pause” that lasted so long that “you could’ve knit a sweater” in the time it took Clinton’s national security team to respond.
John Dickerson Career
On Her Trail, Dickerson’s book about his relationship with his late mother, pioneering television newswoman Nancy Dickerson Whitehead, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2006. Staff writer Elsa Walsh described the book as “riveting” in a Washington Post review.
Before joining Slate, Dickerson worked for Time magazine for 12 years, the last four as White House correspondent. Dickerson hosted Face the Nation three times in 2009 and was named CBS News Political Director in November 2011. He was a regular guest on NPR’s Day to Day and appeared every Wednesday on The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio until the show ended in 2007.
He has appeared on PBS’s Washington Week as well as the Slate Political Gabfest, a weekly podcast hosted by David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. Dickerson is also the host of the Slate podcast Whistlestop, which focuses on presidential history. On June 7, 2015, Dickerson took over as host of Face the Nation. He was the host for two and a half years before stepping down on January 21, 2018. Dickerson was soon named the new co-anchor of CBS This Morning.
He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency. According to Publishers Weekly, it is an “evenhanded and insightful look at the evolution of the American presidency.” He is also the author of Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History, which was released on August 2, 2016, by Twelve, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.
During the 2018 midterm elections, John Dickerson contributed a few educational videos to the Khan Academy. On May 10, 2019, CBS News President Susan Zirinsky announced that Dickerson would fill in for then-anchor Jeff Glor for a week on the CBS Evening News. Glor was replaced on July 15, 2019, by Norah O’Donnell. According to Zirinsky, CBS News would staff the broadcast with a rotating cast of anchors until O’Donnell took over. Dickerson filled in for Margaret Brennan on CBS’ Face the Nation on September 6, 2020.