Norah O'Donnell

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Norah Morahan O'Donnell, born January 23, 1974, is an American television journalist and anchor of CBS Evening News, as well as a reporter for 60 Minutes.

She is the former co-anchor of CBS This Morning, Chief White House Correspondent, and a substitute host for CBS's Face the Country on Sunday morning.

Early life and education

O'Donnell was born in Washington, D.C., and the niece of No. K. and Francis Lawrence O'Donnell, a physician and US Army officer, was born. Both her parents are of Irish descent, with roots in Derry, Belfast, and Donegal (meaning she descends from both directions of the Irish Border). Three of her grandparents were refugees and her maternal grandfather spent in the United States illegally for 16 years. Norah's family immigrated to San Antonio, Texas, when she was three years old. As her father was hired to work in Yongsan Garrison when she was 10, the family spent two years in Seoul. She began her career in television by giving videotaped English lessons for the Korean Educational Development Institute as an elementary student. The family moved to San Antonio, where she attended Douglas MacArthur High School, where she graduated in 1991. She then went on to Georgetown University, where she graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and a Master of Arts degree in liberal studies in 2003.

Personal life

O'Donnell, a retired Washington, D.C. chef, and New York City's Upper West Side neighborhood are married in June 2001. When they were together at Georgetown, they met. O'Donnell and Tracy became the parents of twins, Grace and Henry, who were born on May 20, 2007. Riley Norah Tracy, the family's third child, was born on July 5, 2008; O'Donnell said Tim Russert, who died three weeks before Riley's birth, suggested that her daughter's first name was suggested. On August 31, 2010, O'Donnell and Tracy produced Baby Love: Healthy, Simple, Delicious Meals for Your Baby and Toddler.

O'Donnell was diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer in fall 2016. The official diagnosis was'melanoma in situ,' indicating that the disease was limited to the epidermis and had not yet spread to the dermis and metastasized. She underwent surgery soon after discovering a "three-inch piece of skin from [her] back's upper left corner. She later reported that she now gets regular skin checks "every three to four months" and "multiple skin biopsies" due to her high risk. O'Donnell has been a skin care advocate in the years since her illness, encouraging others, especially women, to get regular dermatological check-ups and take better care of their skin by using sunscreen. On CBS This Morning in 2017, she spoke openly about her dermatologist and her dermatologist.

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Career

O'Donnell worked as a staff writer for Roll Call, where she covered Congress. She spent twelve years of her career at the NBC networks. A commentator for the Today Show, Chief Washington Correspondent for MSNBC, and a White House correspondent for NBC News, O'Donnell was also a contributing anchor for MSNBC Live and an anchor on Weekend Today. O'Donnell reported for various NBC News broadcasts, including NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, Dateline NBC, and MSNBC. O'Donnell filled in for Chris Matthews as host of Hardball with Chris Matthews and was a regular pundit for The Chris Matthews Show.

Since joining CBS, she has served as anchor in several of its highest-rated shows, filling in for Scott Pelley on the CBS Evening News multiple times, the first being October 10, 2011. She was chief White House correspondent in 2011 and 2012, and became a co-anchor on CBS This Morning in fall of 2012. On May 6, 2019, Susan Zirinsky, president of CBS News, announced that O'Donnell had been named anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News beginning on July 15, 2019, will also be the lead anchor of political events for the network and continue as a contributing correspondent for 60 Minutes. She becomes the third woman after Connie Chung and Katie Couric to serve as the program's weeknight anchor. Her last broadcast of CBS This Morning was on May 16, 2019. On April 8, 2022, O'Donnell had extended her contract with CBS News to keep as anchor of CBS Evening News, through the 2024 election and afterward.

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