Savanna Guthrie Biography
Savanna Guthrie is an American broadcast journalist and attorney. She is the main co-anchor of the News morning show at NBC News. She has held that position for almost 9 years she joined in July 2012. Savanna joined the NBC team in 2007 as a legal analyst and correspondent. She has served as the white house correspondent(2008-2011) and as co-anchor of the MSNBC program The Daily Rundown in 2010 and 2011. Her broadcasting career started at ABC affiliate KMIZ, in Columbia, Missouri, where she worked for two years.
Savannah Guthrie Age
Guthrie was born on 27th December 1971 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Savannah Guthrie Height
Savannah stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Savannah Guthrie Education
She graduated from Amphitheater High School in Tucson. She did her B.A in journalism from the University of Arizona, graduating cum laude in 1993. Guthrie received a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated magna cum laude in 2002.
Savannah Guthrie Family
Guthrie was born to Charles and Nancy Guthrie. Her family moved from Australia, where her dad was stationed to Tucson, Arizona.
Savannah Guthrie Husband
Savannah is married to Michael Feldman and the two got married in March 2014. The couple is blessed with two children a daughter, Vale Guthrie Feldman, and a son, Charles Max Feldman.
Before getting engaged to Feldman, she was married to Mark Orchard, an English-born BBC News presenter, in December 2005, after meeting him while covering the Michael Jackson trial. In 2009, they divorced.
Savannah Guthrie NBC News
In September 2007, Guthrie joined NBC News as a correspondent. She reported from Fairbanks, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Sioux City, Iowa, and Washington on Sarah Palin’s 2008 vice presidential campaign. She was named a White House correspondent for NBC News on December 18.
She worked on all NBC News properties in this role. Guthrie is also an NBC News anchor and NBC Nightly News substitute anchor. After contracting COVID-19 and refusing to participate in a virtual presidential debate that was postponed for safety reasons, Guthrie served as moderator at a town hall hosted by President Trump on October 14, 2020. When Joe Biden booked a solo town hall meeting, Trump and NBC organized one at the same time and place.
After filling in for Meredith Vieira and Ann Curry on Today, it was announced on May 9, 2011, that Guthrie will join Natalie Morales and Al Roker as co-hosts of the 9 a.m. hour, as well as the show’s Chief Legal Editor. Following Vieira’s announcement of her departure from the show as main program co-host, Curry and Morales were promoted to primary co-host and news anchor, respectively.
Guthrie left The Daily Rundown for Today on June 9, 2011, and was named NBC News chief legal analyst the following day, making her debut appearance in this post on May 25, 2011. On June 29, 2012, it was announced that Guthrie would replace Curry as co-anchor of Today. On July 9, 2012, she joined Matt Lauer as a co-anchor for the first time.
She had an interview with Donald Trump in 2011 in which he discussed his role in the “birther” issue surrounding Barack Obama. She interviewed Conrad Murray later that year after he was convicted guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson’s death. She had firsthand knowledge of Osama bin Laden’s demise. Guthrie took over as host from Matt Lauer on November 29, 2017, alongside Hoda Kotb.
She has presented the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC since 2012.
In the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, she conducted another interview with then-President Donald Trump during his re-election campaign. Guthrie probed him on his debts, his response to the coronavirus, and his failure to repudiate the right-wing conspiracy theory QAnon outright.
Many people praised Guthrie for the interview, and many pointed out that, unlike his talks with more conservative channels like Fox News, this was the first time Trump was not able to dominate and make statements unquestioned during the 2020 election campaign.
Savannah Guthrie Salary
Savannah earns an estimated salary of $8 million annually.
Savannah Guthrie Net worth
Guthrie is estimated to have a net worth of $30 million from her successful career.