John King Biography
John King is an American anchor working for CNN as a chief national correspondent and an integral part of the network’s coverage of American government and politics. He joined the CNN news team in May 1997, after previously working for Associated Press.
John King Career
King started his career as a writer at the Associated Press in 1985. King was named top political correspondent by the Associated Press in 1991. He was in charge of the union’s political coverage of the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections. King also got the Associated Press Managing Editors Association’s top reporting award in 1991 for his work covering the Gulf War in Kuwait.
King joined CNN in 1997 and was their chief White House reporter from 1999 to 2005. He became CNN’s chief national reporter in 2005 and still holds that job today. From 2014 to 2021, he was the host of the Sunday morning news show Inside Politics, which aired more often during presidential election years. The show has a rotating group of reporters who talk about current political issues with King. He is often on The Situation Room and Anderson Cooper 360°, two nightly news shows, and sometimes he comes in as an anchor.
King uses The “Magic Wall” or “Magic Map” as another name for the Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall. It was first used during the primaries of the 2008 presidential campaign. It lets him see and change polls and election results on maps and graphs. The Daily Show has talked about him and the Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall, and CNN talked about the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections.
King started hosting a new talk show called State of the Union right before the 2009 US presidential inauguration. It took the place of CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. CNN said that King would take over Lou Dobbs’ time slot in early 2010 after Dobbs quit the network without warning on November 12, 2009. King revealed on January 31, 2010, that Candy Crowley, a senior political reporter for CNN, would take over as host of State of the Union. King started his new show John King, USA during the week of March 22, 2010. John King was the CNN host who told the world on May 2, 2011, that Osama bin Laden had been killed.
King led a Republican presidential debate before the South Carolina Primary on January 19, 2012. The last episode of John King, USA aired on June 29, 2012. The show was canceled in early 2012. King, using police sources, said on April 17, 2013, that police had named a suspect in the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing and that the suspect was a dark-skinned man.
One of the first news outlets to report wrongly that a suspect had been identified was King. Soon after, other news sources, like Fox News, reported wrongly that a suspect had been arrested. People all over the world praised King’s coverage of the 2020 US presidential election. King was the host of the daily version of the CNN morning show Inside Politics from 2016 to 2023.
Abby Phillip was named to replace King as the host of the Sunday version of Inside Politics on January 11, 2021. Her first show was on January 24, 2021. Behind the Scenes Sunday With Abby Phillip is the name of the new show. In April 2023, it was reported that his coworker and ex-wife Dana Bash would take over as the sole host of Inside Politics in the middle of June, while he started a new project that would deal with election politics. Afterward, he went to Boston Latin School and got his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Rhode Island.
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, Bianna Golodryga, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Laila Harrak, Erica Hill, Michael Holmes, Van Jones, Brianna Keilar, Lynda Kinkade, 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 King Salary
King earns a salary of about $1M-$3M annually.
John King Net Worth
King has an estimated net worth of about $5 Million – $10 Million which he has earned through his career as a news anchor.
John King Age
King was born on August 30, 1963, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is 60 years old as of 2023, and he celebrates his birthday on the 30th of August every year.
John King Height and Weight
King stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches tall (1.80m) and weighs 65 kgs (143 lbs).
John King Family
King was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Richard King (father), who was a jail guard who worked overnight shifts, and Joan King (mother) who was a housewife. Richard passed away in 1987 at the age of 55 while his mother Joan died in 1992 at the age of 59. He is the third oldest of the seven children. He has not opened up about any details concerning his siblings. However, this information will be updated when available.
John King Wife and Children
King was first married to Jean Makie and was blessed with two children; a son named Noah and a daughter named Hannah. They later divorced due to unknown reasons and King went on to marry Dana Ruth Bash, the host of CNN’s Inside Politics on May 25, 2008, and were blessed with a son named Jonah (born June 2011). The couple later on separated in March 2012 due to infidelity issues. Bash and King confirmed that they were staying separately for several months before finalizing their divorce.
John King Dana Bash
Bash is a respected news anchor and writer from the United States. The two jobs she has now on CNN are host of Inside Politics and co-anchor of State of the Union. Dana Bash was born in Manhattan and grew up in a Jewish home. Her mother is a known author and Jewish studies teacher named Frances Schwartz, and Stuart Schwartz, her father is a senior broadcast director for ABC News’ Good Morning America.
Her maternal grandma Teri Vidor Weinman and her family escaped to the United States in October 1941. They were Hungarian Jews. Sadly, her grandparents’ parents and sister died in the horrible Auschwitz death camp in 1944, when Hungary ruled the area. Dana Bash lived in both Washington, D.C. and New Jersey when she was young. In Montvale, New Jersey, she went to Pascack Hills High School.
After that, she went to George Washington University and got a bachelor’s degree with honors in political relations. During college, Bash did jobs at well-known news organizations like NBC, CBS, and CNN, which helped her learn a lot. Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire, gave her an honors Doctorate of Humane Letters on May 12, 2018, in recognition of her hard work and achievements.
Bash was married to Jeremy Bash in the past. From 1998 to 2007, Jeremy Bash was President Barack Obama’s CIA chief of staff and Department of Defense chief of staff. Following this, in 2008, she got married to John King, another CNN reporter. The couple had a boy together in 2011 but ended their marriage and got a divorce in 2012.
In 2011, Dana Bash quit as a member of Jewish Women International because the group’s support for abortion rights was causing her more and more stress. Since Bash became a member, conservative blogs have been writing about the group’s views on abortion.
John King Illness
King told his viewers on his show Inside Politics on October 19, 2021, that he has multiple sclerosis and cannot fight off infections because of it. He told CNN New Day host John Berman the next day that he had been diagnosed 13 years before. King said that since working for the Clinton government in the late 1990s, he had trouble feeling his legs. He was given his diagnosis after his problems got worse during the 2008 presidential race.
King was given medicine that, along with a healthy diet and regular exercise, has helped him deal with his illness. Later on, King kept having episodes of tingling, stiffness, and violent pain in his legs, like sciatica, which he says were all caused by his disc problems. That is until King started losing feeling in his arms and upper chest in the summer of 2008. This worried his doctor, who ordered more MRIs.
He has learned over the years that heat and stress are the things that make him lose his balance or have trouble seeing. Sudden loud noises and bright flashing lights can also make him struggle. In addition to taking his medicine, King works out every day by walking on an inclined track for a couple of hours and doing a mix of squats, stretches, light weights, and the rowing machine.
John King Social Media Platforms
King is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 550k followers on Twitter 66k followers on Instagram, and 87k followers on Facebook.