The fallen journalist used to have a solid career with a few local Emmy Awards under his belt. Bill O’Reilly has worked in different TV stations including CBS News and ABC News. When Fox News Channel started in 1996, he worked with them and was the host of his own show, The O’Reilly Factor. It was the highest-rated cable news show for 16 years, and O’Reilly has even been dubbed as Fox News’ biggest star in their 20-year history. However, Fox News terminated his employment in April 2017 after finding out his scandals.
O’Reilly is the author of numerous books and is now hosting his own podcast called No Spin News, which he created after being fired from Fox.
Meredith Vieira – $11m
Meredith Louise Vieira’s journalistic career began all the way back to 1975 when she was a news announcer for a radio station in Massachusetts. She then worked as a local reporter and anchor at WJAR-TV in Providence, which paved the way for her to become an investigative reporter until 1982. But she became a household name when she worked as a correspondent for 60 Minutes on CBS. She was also a co-anchor on the CBS Morning News.
Vieira moved to ABC, and in 1997, she served as a moderator and co-host of the daytime talk show The View until 2006. She was also the first host of the American version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? In which she won two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Game Show Host. Today, she is a special correspondent for NBC News and a contributor to the NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, and Today.
Elizabeth Vargas – $750k
Elizabeth Vargas joined NBC News in 1993 as a correspondent for Dateline NBC and substitute anchor for Today. In 1996, she was hired as the newsreader for ABC’s Good Morning America. Eventually, she became the anchor of Sunday’s World News Tonight and co-anchor of 20/20. Peter Jennings’ death in 2005 made her a permanent co-anchor of World News Tonight along with Charles Gibson or Diane Sawyer.
Vargas is the first national evening news anchor of Puerto Rican and Irish-American descent and the third female anchor of a network evening newscast in the United States. She is currently the lead investigative reporter/documentary anchor on A&E’s Cults & Extreme Belief.
Heidi Watney – $150k
In high school, Heidi Watney participated in diving, gymnastics, hurdles, and cheerleading, so it’s safe to say that she is a sportswoman and that is what inspired her to choose her career path. She worked for NESN, a Boston-based network, where she was an on-field reporter and host of numerous Red Sox specials including The Ultimate Red Sox Show. But prior to this, she was a weekend sports anchor for KMPH-TV and a sports talk radio host for ESPN Radio 1430 KFIG.
In 2011, she worked as a sideline reporter for Time Warner Cable SportsNet and then she joined MLB Network to host the network’s show Quick Pitch.
Natalie Morales – $1m
Before pursuing her career as a journalist, Natalie Morales worked at Chase Bank. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree with dual majors in journalism and Latin American studies from Rutgers University. She started as a morning anchor at News 12 – The Bronx where she also worked as a camera operator, producer, and editor. Later, she was hired as an anchor and correspondent for MSNBC from 2002 to 2006.
GETTY IMAGESIn 2016, Morales replaced Billy Bush on Access Hollywood and Access Hollywood Live. She also became the West Coast anchor of Today and a correspondent for Dateline all at the same time. Morales has been named as one of the “50 Most Influential Latinas.”