Natalie Morales Biography
Natalie Morales is a renown American journalist who is working for CBS as the co-host and moderator of the CBS Daytime talk show The Talk. Before joining CBS she worked at NBC News as the West Coast anchor of Today and appeared on Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News.
Natalie Morales Age
Natalie was born on June 6th, 1972 in Taipei, Taiwan
Natalie Morales Height
Natalie stands at a height of 5 feet and 4 inches tall.
Natalie Morales Family
Morales was born, to a Brazilian mother, Penelope, and a Puerto Rican father, Lieutenant Colonel Mario Morales, Jr.
Natalie Morales Husband
Natalie is married to Joe Rhodes, the two got married on August 22nd, 1998. The couple have two sons together Josh and Luke Hudson. .
Natalie Morales Education
Morales graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies with a minor in Latin American studies.
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Morales worked for Chase Bank after graduation before pursuing a career in media. She began her on-air career as the first morning anchor at News 12 – The Bronx, where she worked alongside Roberto Soto, the station’s first news director, and founding studio directors Tom D’Elia, Brian Webb, Darryl Stith, and David Rein. She also worked for that network as a camera operator, editor, and producer.
She went on to work for WVIT-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, as a weekend anchor/reporter and morning co-anchor, where she covered the Columbine High School massacres, Hurricane Floyd, the 2000 Presidential election, and the September 11th attacks.
She also co-hosted and reported for the Emmy-nominated documentary Save Our Sound, a collaboration with WNBC on Long Island Sound preservation. For her news coverage and reports, she was named one of the 50 Most Influential Latinas by the Hispanic daily newspaper El Diario La Prensa in 1999. Morales previously worked behind the scenes at Court TV for two years.
From 2002 until 2006, Morales worked for MSNBC as an anchor and correspondent. She covered the 2004 Presidential election, the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Iraqi prisoner torture, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, the Northeast Blackout of 2003, the 2002 Beltway sniper assaults, and Scott Peterson’s investigation and prosecution there. She was also named one of the Top Trendsetters of 2003 by Hispanic Magazine.
She joined the Today show as a national correspondent in 2006, and in March 2008, he was designated co-anchor of the show’s third hour. When Ann Curry succeeded Meredith Vieira as host of Today in June 2011, it was reported on May 9, 2011, that Morales would take over as the news anchor.
She revealed in 2016 that he would be traveling west to present Access and become Today’s West Coast anchor. Morales stepped down as host of Access in 2019 and remained on Today. Morales announced her departure from NBC News after 22 years in October 2021, and it was confirmed that she would become a permanent co-host and moderator on CBS’s daytime chat show The Talk.
Natalie Morales Articles
‘We need to speak up’: How fashion mogul Peter Nygard’s sons helped his alleged sexual assault victims
When supermodel Beverly Peele’s son Trey Peele was 11, his mother told him something shocking about his father. The sexual encounter she had had a decade prior with fashion mogul Peter Nygard that led to his birth was not consensual, she said. Nygard had raped her, according to Beverly Peele. It was a secret she had kept from almost everyone else. In 2020, as other allegations of sexual misconduct mounted against Nygard, Trey Peele urged her to go public with it.
Natalie Morales Says an Emotional Goodbye to the Today Show: It Was an ‘Honor’
In October, Natalie Morales announced that she was leaving the network after 22 years for a “new adventure” By Kelly Wynne November 19, 2021 03:29 PM The Today Show host marked her final day at NBC on Friday after more than two decades with the network. Before signing off on the Today show for the final time, Morales became emotional while reflecting on her time with the news organization. Get push notifications with news, features and more.
Natalie Morales Salary
Natalie earns an annual salary of $6 million.
Natalie Morales Net worth
Natalie has an estimated net worth of $18 million.