Lee Cowan Biography
Lee Cowan is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who works as a national correspondent and fill-in anchor for “CBS Sunday Morning.” His reporting can also be found across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms.
Lee Cowan Age
He is 56 years old as of 2021. He was born Leland P. Cowan on 1 May 1965 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
Lee Cowan Height
Cowan stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m).
Lee Cowan Family
Cowan is the son of surgical and radiation oncologists Leland B. Cowan and Constance W. Cowan. He is married to Molly Palmer, a television associate producer and the daughter of John Palmer, a television news correspondent, and Nancy Doyle Palmer, a writer. His wife gave birth to their son, Kevin Cowan, on December 23, 2016, and they later welcomed their second son, Harrison Leland Cowan, on March 9, 2019. They are residents of Santa Monica.
Lee Cowan Wife
Cowan is married to Molly Palmer, an NBC “Today” producer, and the couple has a son, Kevin Cowan, who was born in 2014.
Lee Cowan Education
He earned a double major in communications and speech communications from the University of Washington in 1988.
Lee Cowan Illness
When 28-year-old Jacob Haendel was rushed to a Massachusetts emergency room four years ago, doctors assumed he was having a stroke because he was so young. But he wasn’t; his scans revealed something very different and strange: Jake’s brain appeared to be disconnecting from the rest of his body.
Dr. Brian Edlow, who examined Haendel in the intensive care unit said that The wires weren’t sending signals from one place to another. He wasn’t sure what was causing it at first, until Haendel confessed. He told him he partied hard and did drugs — mostly opioids — until he became addicted to street heroin.
Haendel’s medical team concluded that he most likely ingested a toxin somewhere along the way. That was causing the damage, which resulted in a very rare condition with a very long name: Toxic Acute Progressive Leukoencephalopathy. Cowan is not ill. His interview with Jacob Haendel, a man with ALS who was given six months to live. Within six months, Haendel had reduced himself to a blank stare, having ceased all conscious movement. Edlow stated that they thought he was in a vegetative state, completely unaware of himself or his surroundings. He was admitted to an extended care facility, where he remained day after day, breathing by machine and fed through a tube. He was eventually placed in hospice care.
Lee Cowan Salary
Cowan earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.
Lee Cowan Net Worth
Cowan has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
Lee Cowan Career
He’s also written about the nation’s public defender system, the Navajo Nation’s water crisis, and childhood hunger. has spent nearly two decades of his nearly 30-year career at CBS News, divided into two periods. He covered the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the 2006 conflict in Beirut, and the 2006 tsunami in Indonesia for CBS.
Cowan was assigned as a national correspondent from NBC News, where he was reporting for “NBC Nightly News,” “Today,” and MSNBC, to cover President Barack Obama’s campaign and election; the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the Libyan crisis, and the royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Cowan previously worked as a correspondent for CBS Newspath, the 24-hour news service of CBS News, as well as a researcher for CBS News’ “CBS News Nightwatch” and then the “CBS Evening News” in Washington, D.C.
His reporting career began with WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, where he worked as an anchor and reporter. He previously worked as an anchor and reporter for WWMT-TV in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and as a weekend anchor for KCOY-TV in Santa Maria, California. Cowan worked as the news director and anchor at NBC affiliate KIEM-TV Eureka, Calif., before joining KCOY-TV.
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