As one of America’s most honored and experienced broadcast journalists, her career has been marked by political revelations, investigations, as well as award-winning foreign reporting, a job that won her the Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2003 for overall excellence in reporting.
She began her 30th season on 60 Minutes in September 2019, having joined the broadcast as a correspondent in March 1991. Lesley is also the author of two best-selling books: “Reporting Live,” about her work as a White House Correspondent, and more recently, “Becoming Grandma.”
Connie Chung - $15 million
Veteran journalist Connie Chung has anchored for numerous networks like NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. She was born to a Chinese diplomat, and Chung went on to attend the University of Maryland, where she studied journalism. Chung then worked her way up at Washington's WTTG-TV, eventually becoming a reporter for the station.
Chung went on to win an Emmy as well as a Peabody award after interviewing President Richard Nixon during the rise of the Watergate scandal. Chung is worth an estimated $15 million.
Dana Bash - $6 million
Dana Bash is an American journalist, anchorwoman, and political correspondent. She is best known for being featured on CNN. She graduated from George Washington University with a degree in political communication.
Her father served as a producer for ABC News and was the senior broadcaster producer of the television series Good Morning America.
Hallie Jackson - $200,000
While Hallie Jackson is a little newer to the job of anchoring the news, she has plenty of experience facing an audience and reporting news thanks to her time as a White House Correspondent for NBC News. Her time at NBC began when she was the dedicated embedded reporter for Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign. Jackson currently wears a couple of hats for the company, including working as a Senior Washington correspondent, a news anchor for both MSNBC and NBC News Now, and as a backup anchor for “Today.”
She rose so fast and has become such a well-known public figure that her alma mater, John Hopkins University, invited Jackson to speak at their 2020 graduation ceremony. She’s raking in about two hundred thousand a year for all her hard work, and there’s plenty of room to grow.
Shannon Bream - $800,000
Bream has worked in plenty of different places during her career in news, but she currently works mostly as a correspondent for the Supreme Court with Fox News. Working out of Washington D.C., she’s also the host of “Fox News @ Night,” and she also began hosting “Fox News Sunday” in 2022. It seems like Bream could have done it all – she attended law school at Florida State and then worked for the Florida Attorney General.
While studying for her different degrees, she competed in beauty pageants to pay for her education. She won Miss Virginia in 1990 and then competed in Miss America in 1991. She also managed to win Miss Florida in 1995 and then placed fourth in the 1995 Miss America. For all that, she earns eight hundred thousand a year.