Paula Zahn Biography
Paula Zahn is a journalist and newscaster from the United States who has worked for ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, and CNN. On the Investigation Discovery channel, she presently produces and presents the real crime documentary series On the Case with Paula Zahn.
Paula Zahn Age
Zahn is 66 years old as of 2022. She was born on 24 February 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
Paula Zahn Height
Zahn stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.75 m).
Paula Zahn Family
Zahn is the daughter of an IBM sales professional father and a schoolteacher/artist mother. She grew raised with her parents and three siblings in Canton, Ohio. Because her father’s business required them to move frequently, the family relocated to Naperville, Illinois.
Paula Zahn Husband
Zahn has three children with Richard Cohen, a New York City real estate developer: Austin, Jared, and Haley. Cohen is a devout Jew, and his children are being raised in his faith. In 2004, the pair made headlines when the well-publicized red-tailed hawk Pale Male’s nest was removed from their Manhattan co-op building. The removal was backed by Cohen, the head of the co-op board; Zahn had praised the hawk and its habit of eating rats and pigeons in 2001. Zahn announced her divorce from Cohen after 20 years of marriage in April 2007. Zahn filed a complaint against Cohen in the same year, alleging that he mismanaged her professional earnings over a 20-year period.
Paula Zahn Education
Zahn attended Naperville’s Washington Junior High School before graduating from Naperville Central High School in 1974. Zahn has participated in a number of beauty pageants, reaching the semi-finals of the Miss Teenage America Pageant in 1973. On a cello scholarship, she completed her study at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and gained personal experience in the news industry as an intern at WBBM-TV in Chicago. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1978.
Paula Zahn Salary
Zahn earns an annual salary of $1 Million.
Paula Zahn Net Worth
Zahn has an estimated net worth of $18 Million.
Paula Zahn Career
Zahn received a job offer from ABC News in 1987, where he began anchoring The Health Show, a weekend show focused on health and medical matters. She was co-anchoring World News This Morning, the network’s early morning program, and anchoring news portions on Good Morning America, as well as filling in for co-host Joan Lunden, in a matter of months.
Zahn was offered a job at CBS News in 1990, which she accepted and began co-anchoring CBS This Morning with Harry Smith on February 26, 1990. During this period, she assisted Tim McCarver in covering the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, as well as the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and the Waco siege.
She and Smith both left the morning program in 1996 after adjustments were made, with their last day being June 14, 1996. Zahn went on to anchor the CBS Evening News on Saturdays, as well as fill in for Dan Rather throughout the week and contribute reports to 48 Hours, Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel, and CBS News Sunday Morning.
Zahn left CBS News in 1999 to join Fox News Channel (FNC), where she anchored Fox Report, the network’s evening newscast, after nine years on the network. Months later, she helped create The Edge with Paula Zahn, her own prime-time news show. Zahn began her career at CNN on September 11, 2001, when she joined anchor Aaron Brown in covering the terrorist attacks that day as a reaction to what she had experienced. She started a regular morning news shift the next day, despite not being slated to appear on a CNN program that was still in creation. Paula Zahn’s CNN morning news show, American Morning with Paula Zahn, debuted in January. During the Iraq War in 2003, Zahn returned to prime time, hosting a two-hour show called Live from the Headlines, which provided ongoing coverage of the war and other events. By early summer, Anderson Cooper had taken over the first of the two hours, and her show, Paula Zahn Now, had debuted by September.
She announced her departure from CNN on July 24, 2007. Paula Zahn Now aired its final episode on August 2, 2007. Campbell Brown, the former co-host of Weekend Today, was hired by CNN less than a day before the announcement. Initially, guest hosts carried on Zahn’s show under the moniker Out in the Open. This was eventually replaced by election coverage and, eventually, Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull, Brown’s program. Zahn told Jacques Steinberg in a New York Times interview done shortly after her resignation was announced that “she had no notion what she would be doing next.”
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