Fredricka Whitfield is a renowned multi-award-winning journalist based in Atlanta-Georgia. She works for CNN and has quite a record as a Black female journalist.
Fredricka Whitfield has covered many big stories in her professional career and has won many accolades for her brilliant work. Read on to know more about Fredrick Whitfield as we serve you with his biography, career, personal life, family and social media.
Profile Summary of Fredricka Whitfield
Full name | Fredricka Whitfield |
Date of Birth | May 31, 1965 |
Age | 57 years (as of 2022) |
Profession | Journalist, News anchor |
Height | 1.87m(6’2”) |
Nationality | American |
Source of wealth | NBC |
Annual income | $95k |
Net worth | $5M |
Early Life (Age, Parents, Siblings and Ethnicity)
Fredricka Whitfield was born on May 31, 1965 in Burtonsville, Maryland. Her father was the famous middle-distance runner and olympian, Mal Whitfield. Her mother, Nola Whitfield, was a housewife who kept away from the media.
Fredricka Whitfield is African-American. As of 2022, she is 57 years old. She was born and raised with three other siblings; Malvin Lonnie Whitfield, Nyna Konishi and Ed Wright.
Education
Fredricka Whitfield attended Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, Maryland and graduated in the year 1983. While in high school, she developed a great interest in writing and wrote many articles among other things.
Fredricka Whitfield was encouraged by her teachers to pursue a career in journalism. She furthered her education at Howard University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University’s school of communications in 1987.
While at University, Fredricka Whitfield served as a news anchor for the campus radio station WHUR.
Career
Fredricka Whitfield had to move around quite a lot at the beginning of her professional career.
After graduating, she worked in different media houses such as WPLG in Miami, NewsChannel 8 in Washington D.C, and KTVT-TV in Dallas, among others. In 1995, she became a correspondent for NBC News. She served in different capacities there till 2001.
The following year, Fredricka Whitfield joined CNN. She currently anchors CNN’s weekend edition of CNN Newsroom from the network,s world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Fredricka has had quite a career so far and has covered many big stories from all around the world. She covered the Bush-Gore presidential race in 2000, the Kosovo War Refugee Crisis, the Afghanistan war, the second Iraq war, as well the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2008.
She has also helped cover the Atlanta, Beijing and London Olympic games. Fredricka has fetched quite a number of accolades for herself in line with her work.
In the year 2000, Fredricka Whitfield had an Emmy award nomination for storytelling, long form. In 2002, she was awarded Howard University School of Communications Alumna of the Year.
Other awards are the DuPont Award-winning team for CNN’s coverage of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, the 2005 George Peabody award for the network’s live coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, 2005 Ebony award for Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications.
Personal Life (Husband and Children)
Fredricka Whitfield is married to John Glenn, a photographer who now works as director of photography at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Fredricka Whitfield met John after college and dated for quite a while before finally tying the knot in a private ceremony in 1999.
They have three children; a son born(born in 2005) and a set of twins Nola and Gilbert (November 2002). They live happily in Atlanta, Georgia.
Measurements (Height, Body Weight)
Fredricka Whitfield is a beautiful woman who stands at 1.87m (6 feet,2 inches) and weighs 155 pounds (71kg).
Social Media
Unlike many others, Fredricka Whitfield is not quite active on social media. In fact, she has only a Twitter account because of her profession as a journalist.
Inviting @MyAquaAmerica to join me @CNNnewsroom to respond to my interview with Manor Tx mayor Larry Wallace pic.twitter.com/phb74urbT4
— Fredricka Whitfield (@FWhitfield) February 20, 2021
Fredricka Whitfield believes that social media causes more of a disconnection among people rather than connecting people. She does not take much pleasure in matters related to social media.
Lifestyle
Apart from her profession as a news reporter, Fredricka Whitfield has a great love for horses. She recounts her childhood and how she grew a love for all things horses.
Fredricka Whitfield first rode a horse when she was nine years old and since then, she has always been in love with horses. Her parents also supported her interest in horses by providing horse riding lessons and equipment such as boots and britches.
She claims to have learnt important lessons from horses.
Net Worth (Salary, Income and Investments)
Fredricka Whitfield is quite wealthy with a net worth of $5 million. She earns an annual salary of $95,000 from her job at CNN. Other investments and sources of income are not known.
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs
- Is Fredricka Whitfield still married?
Fredricka Whitfield is married to John Glenn. They have been married since 1999.
- Where is Fredricka Whitfield now?
She is based in Atlanta Georgia where CNN’s world headquarters is.
- How old is Fredricka Whitfield?
Fredricka Whitfield was born on May 31, 1965, and is 57 years old now.
