Bianna Golodryga Biography
Bianna Golodryga is a Moldova-American anchor and senior global affairs analyst working for CNN as an anchor One World with Zain Asher and Bianna Golodryga weekdays at noon ET on CNN International and CNN Max, a new seven-day-a-week/24-hour service on Max, Warner Bros. She joined the CNN news team in September 2017, after previously working for CBS News.
Bianna Golodryga Career
Golodryga is a top global affairs analyst and CNN anchor. She hosts One World with Zain Asher and Bianna Golodryga on CNN International and CNN Max, a new seven-day-a-week, 24-hour service on Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming app Max. She is based in New York. Before becoming a full-time CNN anchor, Golodryga was a co-anchor on CBS This Morning.
A list of the best writers under 30 years old was made in 2004. Between 2007 and 2010, she worked as a correspondent for ABC. In May 2010, she was named co-anchor of the weekend version of Good Morning America when Kate Snow quit her job to work for NBC. Golodryga was the first person to interview Anzor Tsarnaev in April 2013.
He was the father of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who were both involved in the Boston Marathon bombings. She described it as “the most emotional moment” of her work. The first thing she did was help her coworkers say the name correctly. Her job was to call Anzor in Chechnya. He didn’t have many details to give her, but he called her back the next day to try to find out more about what was going on and to find out if Dzhokhar, who had been seriously hurt when he was arrested, was still living.
Golodryga was a co-anchor on Good Morning America on the weekends until August 4, 2014, when she quit to work for Yahoo! News in the business and finance news area. It was a guest appearance on Way Too Early, and she often talked on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. She was a guest co-anchor on CBS Morning News in 2017. In September 2017, she became a permanent reporter for CBS and at the same time became a contributor for CNN.
It was also in 2017 that Golodryga became a part-time contributor for CNN. CNN used her knowledge of Russian politics and financial news to cover a wide range of topics, including the Mueller probe, the stock market’s ups and downs, and the President’s historic meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018. Golodryga used to be the news and finance anchor for Yahoo News.
Before that, she co-anchored the weekend version of Good Morning America and was the business correspondent for ABC News. For the cable news station CNBC, Golodryga’s first job in TV news was as a bureau producer for the New York Stock Exchange in 2001. Goinglodryga worked in the financial services industry before she became a TV host.
Several awards and honors have been given to Golodryga, such as the Keystone Policy Center Leadership Award, the University of Texas at Austin Pro Bene Meritis Award, and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Morning Program for Good Morning America. She finished from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a major in Russian/East European and Eurasian Studies. She speaks Russian very well.
At CNN, Scholes works alongside; Fareed Zakaria, Fredricka Whitfield, Bill Weir, Amara Walker, John Avlon, Dana Bash, David Axelrod, John Berman, Victor Blackwell, Wolf Blitzer, Kate Bolduan, Pamela Brown, Kim Brunhuber, Erin Burnett, Alisyn Camerota, Julia Chatterley, Rosemary Church, Laura Coates, Anderson Cooper, Audie Cornish, Amanda Davies, Max Foster, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Laila Harrak, Erica Hill, Michael Holmes, Van Jones, Brianna Keilar, Lynda Kinkade, John King, Melissa Knowles, Christina Macfarlane, John Miller, Veronica Miracle, Bianca Nobilo, Abby Phillip, Brad Parks, Richard Quest, Don Riddell, Michael Smerconish, Boris Sanchez, Tom Sater.
Bianna Golodryga Salary
Golodryga earns a salary of about $47,000-$120,000.
Bianna Golodryga Net Worth
Golodryga has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which she has earned through her career as a news anchor.
Bianna Golodryga Age
Golodryga was born on June 15, 1978, in Căușeni, Moldova. She is 46 years old as of 2024, and she celebrates her birthday on the 15th of June every year.
Bianna Golodryga Height and Weight
Golodryga stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches tall (1.65m) and weighs 54 kgs (119 lbs).
Bianna Golodryga Family
Golodryga was born in Causeni, Soviet Moldova to Zhanna Golodryga (mother, a chief digital and administrative officer for Phillips 66 and was formerly a chief information officer at Hess Corporation, and Vitaly (father) a mechanical engineer and was formerly a consultant for DuPont. When she was 18 months old, her family left the Soviet Union as political refugees in 1980. When they got to the United States, they first went to Galveston, Texas, but later on, they settled down in Houston, which is close by. She has only been back to the place where she was born once since then, to visit her grandparents and cousins in 1988. Later that same year, her grandma moved to Houston to be with her family.
Bianna Golodryga Husband and Children
Golodryga is been married to Peter R. Orszag, the CEO of Lazard which is a financial services company, and was formerly the director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Barack Obama administration. The two met at a White House Correspondent’s Dinner and Peter proposed to Golodryga in 2009 at Sarabeth’s Restaurant in New York City. They tied the knot in September 2010 and they are blessed with two children; a son named Jake Spencer Orszag (2012) and daughter Maia Isabel Orszag (born 2016).
Bianna Golodryga Wedding
In 2010, Golodryga and Peter R. Orszag got married at Capitale, a New York event place. The event was led by Rabbi Sarah H. Reines. The event was attended by close friends and family.
Bianna Golodryga Social Media Platform
Golodryga is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 237k followers on Twitter 48k followers on Instagram, and 35k followers on Facebook.