John Avlon Biography
John Avlon is an American political commentator working for CNN as a Senior Political Analyst and Anchor. He joined the CNN news team in January 2010, after previously working for The Daily Beast.
John Avlon Career
Avlon’s first job was writing speeches for Mayor Rudy Giuliani when he was very young. He got a raise and is now Chief Speechwriter and Deputy Director of Policy. From 1999 to 2001, he wrote the mayor’s addresses for the State of the City, as well as testimony to Congress on homeland security and a message to the UN General Assembly on counterterrorism. His job at the Manhattan Institute was as a senior fellow as well. He serves on the boards of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, the Citizens Union of New York, and the Bronx Academy of Letters.
Avlon started working for The Daily Beast a month after it started in 2008. He began as a columnist and made his way up through the company, becoming political editor, then executive editor, and finally managing editor. Avlon became editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast in 2013. By September 2014, the website had a new high of 21 million unique visitors, which was a 60% year-over-year rise in readers and a 300% rise in the size of its social media group as a whole. The Daily Beast got over 17 awards for great journalism and doubled its traffic to 1.1 million people a day while Avlon was in charge.
In May 2018, Avlon said he was leaving The Daily Beast to become a Senior Political Analyst and Anchor at CNN. “John Avlon has been a superb editorial leader of the Daily Beast,” said Barry Diller, chairman and senior executive of IAC, in a statement soon after Avlon announced his departure. He has created a strong newsroom and an attitude of doing good work and being polite. I only wish him the best for the future, and I’m very grateful that he hired Noah Shachtman as his backup so that we can keep up the terrific work that the Daily Beast does.
Furthermore, Avlon has been on many TV shows, including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, and Real Time with Bill Maher. He has also been on news shows on MSNBC, PBS, CNN, and C-SPAN. In 2005, Avlon went on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart for the first time to talk about his book Independent Nation.
In June 2018, Avlon became a full-time Senior Political Analyst at CNN. He appeared every day on New Day and was a guest host on shows like State of America and Reliable Sources. His “Reality Check” segment on New Day was called “a standout and a welcome feature on television in a time when reality-based news coverage is lacking of late.” Several films, such as HBO’s Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists, 2010’s Gerrymandering, the History Channel’s miniseries Washington, and CNN’s Lincoln: Divided We Stand, have talked to Avlon.
CNN revealed in September 2021 that Reality Check with John Avlon: Extremist Beat would be starting. This digital show will follow the growth of extremist groups in the United States. He hopes the series can help put these kinds of movements in their proper historical context in America. By pointing out these connections, I believe that people can suddenly see how they may have been sucked into something.
At CNN, Scholes works alongside; Fareed Zakaria, Fredricka Whitfield, Bill Weir, Amara Walker, 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.
John Avlon Salary
Avlon earns a salary of about $50,000-$120,000.
John Avlon Net Worth
Avlon has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which he has earned through his career as a political commentator.
John Avlon Age
Avlon was born on January 19, 1973, in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. He is 51 years old as of 2024, and he celebrates his birthday on the 19th of January every year.
John Avlon Height and Weight
Avlon stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall (1.70m) and weighs 73 kgs (160 lbs).
John Avlon Family
Avlon was born in Charleston, South Carolina, United States to John Jeffrey Avlon; his father a lawyer and real estate executive with companies in Charleston, South Carolina, and New York and Dianne Alexander (nee Phillips); his mother. Avlon’s grandparents were immigrants and his family is from Greece.
John Avlon Wife and Children
Avlon is married to Margaret Hoover, a PBS Firing Line host and political commentator. Hoover is a great-granddaughter to Herbert Hoover, a former president of The United States of America. The couple is blessed with a son named Jack (2013) and a daughter named Toula Lou (2015).
John Avlon Wedding
Margaret Claire Hoover and John Phillips Avlon were married Saturday on November 2009 at Stanford Memorial Church in Palo Alto, Calif. The Rev. Susan Scott, a Lutheran minister, officiated, with the Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida, taking part. Hoover is a great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States.
She is on the board of overseers of the Hoover Institution at Stanford and the board of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association in West Branch, Iowa. Margaret is the daughter of Jean W. Hoover and Andrew Hoover of Littleton, Colo. Her father, a mining engineer, retired from Greenfield Engineering in Denver. He is also on the board of the Hoover Library Association. Her mother retired as a flight attendant for United Airlines.
John Avlon Social Media Platform
Avlon is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. He has 90k followers on Twitter 15k followers on Instagram, and 6.1k followers on Facebook.