Fredricka Whitfield Biography
Fredricka Whitfield is an American journalist and news anchor working for CNN as an anchor for the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom, and she is also a fill-in and substitute anchor for CNN’s At This Hour With Kate Bolduan. She joined the CNN news team in 2002, after previously working for NBC News.
Fredricka Whitfield Career
Whitfield works as a news anchor for CNN/U.S. She works out of the network’s main office in Atlanta. Whitfield is the host of CNN Newsroom’s weekend show. Whitfield has been a broadcast journalist for more than 30 years and has won many awards. During that time, he has covered major events such as the Cuban-Haitian refugee crisis in the 1990s, the Bush-Gore presidential race and recount in 2000, the Kosovo War refugee crisis, the Afghanistan War, and the start of the second Iraq War, the 2008 inauguration of President Barack Obama, the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Beijing, and London, the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act in Selma, Alabama, and the President Stories from around the world and in the United States, like Russia’s attack of Ukraine, are covered in breaking news.
Whitfield has a lot to thank early exposure to world living and awareness for. Whitfield was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to an Olympic medalist who went on to work as a U.S. diplomat for more than 30 years. She lived, learned, and still values ethnic diversity, understanding, compassion, and appreciation. She also lived in France while in college and Somalia when she was a child. Whitfield worked as a correspondent for NBC News and as an Atlanta-based correspondent for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, and Dateline NBC before she joined CNN in 2002.
At WPLG-TV in Miami, Whitfield worked as a reporter and anchor. She also worked as an evening anchor for News Channel 8 in Washington, D.C., and as a general assignment reporter at KTVT-TV in Dallas and WTNH in New Haven, Conn. She first worked as a reporter and morning host for WCIV in Charleston, South Carolina. Whitfield has won a lot of awards and medals for her work as a broadcaster. In 2000, she was nominated for an Emmy award for long-form storytelling. Other awards include being named Howard University School of Communications Alumna of the Year in 2002. The 2004 Alfred I. DuPont Award went to the CNN team that covered the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia. The network won the 2005 George Peabody Award for its live coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its fallout.
2005 Best Women in Marketing and Communications Award from Ebony, In 2007, they won an Emmy for their excellent long-form live coverage of a breaking news story. In 2008, they were named NAMD Communicator of the Year. In 2009, they were named a Howard University postgraduate achievement in the field of journalism. Whitfield also helped the network cover the Gulf Oil Spill in 2010 and the Arab Spring in 2011. These stories won Peabody Awards. Whitfield was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2017 for Outstanding Host in a Talk or News/Information Series. In 2018, she was called one of Ebony’s Power 100, and in 2019, the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater made her an honorary board member for their 60th anniversary. Whitfield went to Howard University and got a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
At CNN, Scholes works alongside; Fareed Zakaria, 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, 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.
Fredricka Whitfield Salary
Whitfield earns an annual salary of about $60,000-$130,000.
Fredricka Whitfield Net Worth
Whitfield has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which she has earned through her career as a News Anchor.
Fredricka Whitfield Age
Whitfield was born on May 31, 1965, in Maryland, United States. She is 59 years old as of 2024, and she celebrates her birthday on the 31st of May every year.
Fredricka Whitfield Height and Weight
Whitfield stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches tall (1.75m) and weighs 60 kgs (132 lbs).
Fredricka Whitfield Family
Whitfield was born in Maryland, United States to Nola Whitfield; her mother, and Mal Whitfield; her father who was an American middle-distance runner and Olympian. Mal was an athlete, peace advocate, and airman from the United States. He was known as “Marvelous Mal” and won the 800-meter race at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.
He was also on the relay team that won the gold medal in 1948. Whitfield won five medals at the Olympics: three gold, one silver, and one bronze. Whitfield worked as a coach, goodwill ambassador, and sports mentor in Africa for 47 years after he stopped competing. He did this for the US Information Service. Her father died in November 2015. Fredricka has a brother named Malvin Lonnie Whitfield and a sister named Nyna Konishi.
Fredricka Whitfield Husband and Children
Whitfield has been married to John Glenn since 1999. They met in college and started dating while there. Glenn is the director of photography at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The couple is blessed with three children; a son John Glenn Jr. (2005), and a set of non-identical twins, a son named Gilbert and a daughter named Nola (2012).
Fredricka Whitfield Brain Tumor
Whitfield might not have been able to speak at Howard University on Tuesday if she hadn’t tried over and over to get help from her doctors. When she got sick a few years ago, she went to the doctor, but they told her she was fine. She wasn’t sure, she told people at Howard’s 2012 Health Symposium, which brought health experts and supporters to the Blackburn Centre to talk about how underserved people of color in America don’t always get the care they need or have access to it.
She told the doctor that she was getting bigger and feeling more tired, but he still told her everything was okay. But something wasn’t right. Whitfield avoided a major medical problem that could have made her more ill or killed her because she had insurance, could not get medical care, and wanted to know what was going on. She had many tests and visits to the doctor before being told she had a small brain tumor.
Fredricka Whitfield Social Media Platform
Whitfield is very active on her Twitter, and Facebook pages. She has 33.1k followers on Twitter and 44.9k followers on Facebook.