Norah O'Donnell

Norah Morahan O'Donnell (born January 23, 1974) is an American television journalist and anchor of the CBS Evening News and a correspondent for 60 Minutes. She is the former co-anchor of CBS This Morning, Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News, and a substitute host for CBS's Sunday morning show Face the Nation.

Norah O'Donnell
Born
Norah Morahan O'Donnell[1]

(1974-01-23) January 23, 1974
Washington, D.C., U.S.
EducationDouglas MacArthur High School
Alma materGeorgetown University[2][3]
OccupationTelevision journalist
Years active1996–present
Notable credit(s)
TitleNews Anchor
Spouse(s)Geoff Tracy (m. 2001)
Children3

Early life and career

O'Donnell was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Francis O'Donnell, a doctor and US Army officer. Her parents are both of Irish descent.[1] When Norah was three, her family moved to San Antonio, Texas.[4] When she was 10, the family spent two years in Seoul, living in Yongsan Garrison as her father was assigned to work there. While an elementary student, she started her career in broadcasting giving videotaped English lessons for the Korean Educational Development Institute.[5] The family moved back to San Antonio, where she graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School.[6] She holds a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and a master's degree in liberal studies from Georgetown University.[3][7]

O'Donnell worked as a staff writer for Roll Call, where she covered Congress.[8] She spent twelve years of her career at the NBC networks. A commentator for the Today Show, Chief Washington Correspondent for MSNBC, and a White House correspondent for NBC News, O'Donnell was also a contributing anchor for MSNBC Live and an anchor on Weekend Today. O'Donnell reported for various NBC News broadcasts, including NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, Dateline NBC, and MSNBC. O'Donnell filled in for Chris Matthews as host of Hardball with Chris Matthews and was a regular pundit for The Chris Matthews Show.

Since joining CBS, she has served as anchor in several of its highest-rated shows, filling in for Scott Pelley on the CBS Evening News multiple times, the first being October 10, 2011. She was chief White House correspondent in 2011 and 2012, and became a co-anchor on CBS This Morning in fall of 2012. On May 6, 2019, Susan Zirinsky, president of CBS News, announced that O'Donnell had been named anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News beginning on July 15, 2019,[9] will also be the lead anchor of political events for the network and continue as a contributing correspondent for 60 Minutes.[10] She becomes the third woman after Connie Chung and Katie Couric to serve as the program's weeknight anchor. Her last broadcast of CBS This Morning was on May 16, 2019.[11]

Career timeline

Personal life

O'Donnell lives in Washington, D.C. and New York City's Upper West Side neighborhood with her husband,[14] restaurateur Geoff Tracy (owner of D.C. restaurant Chef Geoff's), whom she married in June 2001. They met while attending Georgetown together. On May 20, 2007,[15] O'Donnell and Tracy became the parents of twins, whom they named Grace and Henry.[16] Their third child, daughter Riley Norah Tracy, was born on July 5, 2008; O'Donnell noted that her daughter's first name had been suggested by Tim Russert, who died three weeks prior to Riley's birth. O'Donnell and Tracy made a cookbook for parents titled Baby Love: Healthy, Easy, Delicious Meals for Your Baby and Toddler, released on August 31, 2010.[17] O'Donnell is a Roman Catholic.[18]

Awards and recognition

Washingtonian Magazine has named O'Donnell as one of Washington's 100 most powerful women. O'Donnell has also been named to Irish American Magazine's 2000 "Top 100 Irish Americans" list.

O'Donnell won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Breaking News Coverage for the Dateline NBC story "DC In Crisis," which aired on the night of September 11, 2001.[19]

She won an Emmy as part of NBC News' Election Night coverage team in 2008 for the category Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story – Long Form.[20] She was also awarded an Emmy in 2018 for her six-month investigation and report on "Sexual Assault in the Air Force Academy" for CBS This Morning in the category Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast. That same year, this story was given an honorable mention from the White House Correspondents' Association for the Edgar Allan Poe Award.[21]

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References
  1. "On The Set with Norah O'Donnell - Irish America". IrishAmerica.com. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  2. Norah O'Donnell Guest Speaker Archived October 8, 2013, at the Wayback Machine WashingtonPostLive.com
  3. Staff (June 16, 2011). "Norah O'Donnell Gets CBS White House Beat". TVNewsCheck.com. NewsCheckMedia LLC. Retrieved February 17, 2014.
  4. Impressive! S.A. TV alumna joins CBS News by Jeanne Jakle. San Antonio Express-News, June 16, 2015. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  5. Norah O'Donnell revisits her childhood home in South Korea {CBS This Morning, posted to YouTube on Jun 22, 2017}
    "Norah O'Donnell revisits her childhood home in South Korea". CBS News. June 22, 2017.
  6. Jakle, Jeanne (October 2, 2012). "S.A.'s Norah O'Donnell perking up 'This Morning'". Blog.MySanAntonio.com. San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved February 17, 2014.
  7. "Norah O'Donnell". cbsnews.com. CBS News. February 5, 2014. Retrieved February 17, 2014.
  8. Abbey, Alison (February 9, 2018). "CBS This Morning Co-host Norah O'Donnell On Truth In Journalism And Sunday Traditions". "Parade". Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  9. ""CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell" to debut July 15". CBS News. United States: CBS Corporation. June 23, 2019. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
  10. "CBS News announces anchor changes at "CBS This Morning" and "CBS Evening News"". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
  11. "Norah O'Donnell's teary-eyed 'CBS This Morning' farewell: 'The best is yet to come'". USA Today. May 16, 2019. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
  12. Norah O'Donnell revisits her childhood home in South Korea {CBS This Morning, posted to YouTube on Jun 22, 2017}
    "Norah O'Donnell revisits her childhood home in South Korea". CBS News. June 22, 2017.
  13. Norah O'Donnell on Colbert Late Show stating that she was 10 years old at the time (LSSC, posted to YouTube on Nov 18, 2017)
  14. "N.Y. beckons, but a power couple still finds sense of home in Northwest D.C." The Washington Post. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  15. "O'Donnell. Posted February 24, 2008; retrieved January 22, 2009". MediaBistro.com. Archived from the original on February 27, 2009. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  16. Lynch, Lorrie (September 2, 2007). "Who's News: Norah O'Donnell". USA Weekend.
  17. O'Donnell profile in The Washingtonian
  18. Gotham Magazine: "Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell Keep It Real" interview by Mo Rocca June 19, 2014
  19. "Sigma Delta Chi Awards - Society of Professional Journalists". www.spj.org. Retrieved May 5, 2018.
  20. "30th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS" (PDF). The Emmys.
  21. "2018 Winners | White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA)". White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA). Retrieved May 5, 2018.
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Preceded by
Jeff Glor		 CBS Evening News anchor
July 15, 2019 - current		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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