Catherine Herridge is one of the most popular and respected journalists in America. The duty of a journalist is to come up with the exact facts and let people know about the latest happening and she has been fulfilling it since a long time now. Besides being a popular journalist she is an important television personality and an author as well. Her skill, intelligence and good luck has made her successful in such a competitive field. If you are inspired by her get to know all the details about her.
Bio and Education
Catherina was born on May 18th, 1964 in Canada. She has a citizenship of both America and Canada. To pursue her career in journalism she moved to America while both here parents were from a military background. She completed her studies from Canada and got a degree in Journalism from Columbia University. She was known for her good speaking skills and was an intelligent student since childhood. Catherine celebrated her 55th birthday and her height is 5 feet and 8 inches. As she is a tall woman she keeps herself fit and weighs around 57 kg.
Professional career: Fox News
When she got her degree in Journalism Catherine started out as a London based correspondent in this field. Later she got a chance to join Fox News and was soon promoted to chief intelligence correspondent which was a big achievement for her. She successful covered many important news and one of those people who covered 9/11 attack with comprehensive details. As she had to cover important piece of news she had to travel to a lot of countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Israel.
She got awarded with a bronze medal for her exceptional work in this field. She covered many important news about child prostitution and drug related frauds which was an eye opener for a lot of people.
Catherine Herridge: The Next Wave
Throughout her career Catherine has got the opportunity to travel to different countries in the world and gather the comprehensive details about the news section. She was the first one to bring out a report on true face of terrorism. She got an important book named The next wave published for all her fans where she has discussed about the details of her adventures.
Personal Life: Husband and Children
Catherine has always been busy due to her professional life commitments but was lucky enough to find the love of her life and got married to him. Her husband is a pilot and his name is Jeff Miller. They both share a great bond and are in love with each other. The couple is parents to two adorable sons. Catherine donated a part of her live to one of her son who was diagnosed with liver disease.
Net worth and income
The net worth of Catherine is revealed to be $10 million. Despite being a part of Fox news for many years they were not increasing her fee. So she sued them and asked for an increase in fee which was only $900,000 at in 2000. Her request was constantly rejected by the channel and many feel that she is underpaid as she has always sincerely worked in her field.
Social Media presence
It’s disappointing to know that Catherine is not present on any of the social networking sites. Although her fans hope that she makes an entry very soon.
Controversy/scandal
Catherine was criticized when she was covering Hilary Clinton’s campaign news. When Libya was attacked due to a terrorist attack she came up front to investigate the news herself even when US media wanted to shut it down once and for all.