Bill Weir Biography
Bill Weir is an American correspondent and anchor working for CNN as a Chief Climate Correspondent. He joined the CNN news team in October 2014, after previously working for ABC News.
Bill Weir Career
Weir has been an anchor, writer, director, and host for a long time. He joined CNN in 2013 after ten years of award-winning work at ABC News. Weir was named the network’s first Chief Climate Correspondent in 2019. He did this by using his experience making and hosting “The Wonder List with Bill Weir,” a nightly CNN Original Series that you can now watch on Discovery+.
With his unique way of telling stories, beautiful photography, and focus on how our world is linked, Weir and his team made four seasons of the show that aired in 28 countries and showed amazing people, places, cultures, and animals that are about to go through huge changes. Weir won a News & Documentary Emmy Award in 2022 for his CNN Special Report: Eating Planet Earth: The Future of Your Food. The 2020 CNN Special Report: The Road to Change was called “one of the best pieces of climate journalism ever run by a mainstream US news organization” by Columbia Journalism Review. Chrono Prism will put out his first book, Dear River: A Guide to Growing Up at the End.
During his time at the network, Weir reported from more than 100 countries and all 50 states, covering breaking news and finding global trends. During the 2011 nuclear situation in Japan and the floodwaters of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, he was one of the first reporters to reach those places. He was the first American to broadcast live from Tibet and the first person to lead network news from Iraq. In Afghanistan, he dodged Taliban bullets. As a writer and host, Weir put together several special hours for CNN and ABC that were about faith, brain science, Woodstock, the business of mail-order brides, and the rise and fall of General Motors.
He has taken live shots from atop the Golden Gate Bridge and below the Great Barrier Reef. For his action stories, he has jumped out of hot air balloons, hiked deep into the Amazon, and spent a fun night lashed to the side of Yosemite’s El Capitan. Weir wrote and hosted shows for FX and USA Networks before joining ABC News. He has also worked as an anchor or reporter in Los Angeles, Chicago, Green Bay, and Austin, MN.
At CNN, Scholes works alongside; Fareed Zakaria, Fredricka Whitfield, 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, Bianna Golodryga, 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.
Bill Weir Salary
Weir earns an annual salary of about $50,000-$120,000.
Bill Weir Net Worth
Weir has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which he has earned through his career as a news anchor.
Bill Weir Age
Weir was born on December 19, 1967, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. He is 55 years old as of 2023, and he celebrates his birthday on the 19th of December every year.
Bill Weir Height and Weight
Weir stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall (1.77m) and weighs 72 kgs (158 lbs).
Bill Weir Family
Weir was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA to his loving parents whose names are not known to the public. His father was an atheist, homicide detective, and liberal and left Milwaukee when Bill was still young. Bill’s mother left his father when he was 2 years old. His parents got a divorce when he was young, and he went to 17 schools in six states while his religious Christian mother followed what she knew was right.
Bill Weir Wife and Children
Weir was previously married to Angela Weir and they were blessed with one daughter named Olivia (December 19, 2003). They later divorced due to unknown reasons. Weir later proposed to a woman named Kelly Dowd, a director of sales at Mackage Outwear and US Sales Manager at the APP Group in September 2019 on a ride through Brooklyn and they finally tied the knot. The couple is blessed with a son named William River (2020).
Bill Weir Accident
When Weir, an ABC “Nightline” anchor had a full body scan that showed a possible danger sign, a normal news story took a strange turn. Weir had a full set of tests done by Dr. David Agus while they talked. That included a pricey body scan that shouldn’t be used to check for diseases in people who don’t have any signs. The scan showed a buildup of calcium in an artery. The doctor told the Wisconsin man that this could make him more likely to have a heart attack in the future. But since the show aired on Tuesday night, other doctors have disagreed with that opinion.
Weir underwent a series of tests to show how to avoid getting sick. In a story that aired Tuesday, he revealed on camera that one of the tests revealed heart disease he didn’t know he had. The blood vessel problems found in Weir were so bad that the doctor who checked him out was afraid that he might have a major heart attack if he didn’t make some changes to his lifestyle.
Bill Weir Social Media Platform
Weir is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. He has 131k followers on Twitter 28k followers on Instagram, and 95.6k followers on Facebook.