Jamie Gangel Biography
Jamie Gangel is an American anchor and reported working for CNN as a Special Correspondent. She joined the CNN news team in August 2015, after previously working for NBC News.
Jamie Gangel Career
Gangel joined CNN in August 2015 and is a senior reporter who has won many awards. Gangel reporters for the network’s online and TV platforms and is a regular guest on CNN’s AC360, The Lead with Jake Tapper, and The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Before joining CNN, Gangel worked at NBC News since 1983 and was the National Correspondent for TODAY for almost 20 years, where he covered everything from pop culture to serious news.
Gangel is the national correspondent for TODAY and is known for her in-depth profiles and talks with everyone from presidents and celebrities to regular people with amazing stories. Gangel has done exclusive stories on presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama. She has also written about dozens of other famous people, such as Vice President Dick Cheney, first ladies Laura Bush and Barbara Bush, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Governor Jeb Bush, Governor Chris Christie, and Donald Trump.
During her career, Gangel did many other exclusive interviews that made headlines. These included radio host Rush Limbaugh, Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist, the first interview with Linda Tripp, the legendary American artist Andrew Wyeth, the only TV interview with actor Robert Downey Jr. while he was in California State prison, Florida Governor Jeb Bush about his daughter Noelle’s drug problem, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and businessman Ross Pe.
In the arts, Gangel has talked to famous people like ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Arthur Miller, George Lucas, Quincy Jones, and the great singer-songwriter Burt Bacharach. Moreover, she has written about a lot of actors, singers, and artists, like Tom Hanks, Vanessa Redgrave, John Travolta, Jim Carrey, Courtney Love, Billy Crystal, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter O’Toole, Jane Fonda, Glenn Close, Barbara Streisand, Larry Flynt, Hunter Thompson, 50 Cent, James Earl Jones, Henry Winkler, Cee Lo Green, and Frank Zappa.
From Europe to Africa to South America, Gangel has written for TODAY from all over the world. Gangel worked for the Pentagon in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war in 1987. Moreover, Gangel wrote stories in Central America in 1986, like writing about the war between the Contras and the Nicaraguan government. She wrote about Jesse Jackson, John Glenn, Gary Hart, and Geraldine Ferraro’s campaigns for president and vice president in 1984.
As part of her work, she has written about the biggest Olympic athletes, gone to the Arctic Circle to see polar bears, and swum with sharks in the Caribbean. Moreover, Emmy, Edward R. Murrow, Clarion, AP, and Gracie awards are just a few of the many honors and awards she has won. She went to The Dalton School and In 1977, she graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She also went to Harvard University in 1976 and studied international economics.
Jamie Gangel Salary
Gangel earns a salary of about $47,000-$120,000.
Jamie Gangel Net Worth
Gangel has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which she has earned through her career as a News Correspondent.
Jamie Gangel Age
Gangel was born in 1955, in New York, United States. She is 69 years old as of 2023. She has not disclosed any details concerning her date and month of birth. However, this information will be updated when available.
Jamie Gangel Height and Weight
Gangel stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall (1.70m) and weighs 58kgs (127 lbs)
Jamie Gangel Family
Gangel was born and raised in New York City, United States Eleven months after she was born, her parents divorced. Her mother used to work as a judge on the New York Supreme Court. Gagel grew up in a Jewish family.
Jamie Gangel Husband and Children
Gangel is married to Daniel Silva, a number-one 1 NY Times author. The two met in December 1987 while on an assignment in the Persian Gulf. They tied the knot in 1988. Moreover, they are blessed with twins named Lily and Nicholas and they are currently residing in Florida.
Daniel Silva graduated from California State University, Fresno with a Bachelor of Arts. He then started a graduate program in international relations at San Francisco State University but quit when United Press International (UPI) gave him a job as a reporter. Silva started writing professionally when he got a short-term job as a reporter at UPI in 1984. His job was to report on the Democratic National Convention. Silva’s job at UPI became permanent, and a year later, he was moved to the company’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. After two more years, UPI hired him as their Middle East reporter and sent him to Cairo.
Silva went back to Washington, D.C., to work for the Washington desk of Cable News Network. Among the TV shows he worked on for CNN were Crossfire and Capital Gang as a director and executive producer. He started writing his first book, The Unlikely Spy, in 1994. Moreover, the book first appeared on The New York Times best-seller list on January 26, 1997. It stayed there for five weeks and rose to number 13. Silva quit his job at CNN in 1997 to write full-time.
Silva has written 23 more spy books since then, and all of them have been number 1 bestsellers in The New York Times. In all but three of Silva’s books, the main character is Gabriel Allon, an Israeli art restorer, spy, and killer. Since the first book came out in 2001, the series has been a New York Times hit. Thirteen of the books in the series were number one on The New York Times’ list of best sellers.
Some of his books are about Islamic terrorists, some are about Russian bad guys, and some are about real events like the Holocaust and World War II. At the start of the Allon series, Silva didn’t know much about restoring art, but he was able to use a neighbor’s knowledge to help him turn a spy assassin into an artist.
Jamie Gangel Twins
Gangel and Daniel are blessed parents of twins; LilySilva and Nicholas Silva. It is not known when and where the twins were born. However, this information will be updated when available.
Jamie Gangel Social Media Platform
Gangel is very active on her Twitter, and Instagram pages. She has 43.2k followers on Twitter and 1.9k followers on Instagram.