Richard Roth Biography
Richard Roth is a respected American Journalist best known for his work at CNN as senior United Nations Correspondent. In addition he, is a New York City Correspondent. He is also famous for being one of the of the longest serving CNN journalist as he was part of the first employees CNN had after its launch in 1980.
Richard Roth Age
As of 2024, Roth is 69 years old as he was born in New York City, New York United States of America. However his birthday and month are unknown to the public, therefore this section will be under review. He is Jewish by Ethnicity and his zodiac sign is unknown.
Richard Roth Education
Roth Studied Journalism from New York University where he earned his Bachelor’s degree.
Richard Roth Family
The journalist was born and raised in New York City by his parents who were Jewish. Unfortunately, there is no other details regarding his childhood, parents’ identities and whether he had any siblings in the public domain. This section will be kept under review.
Richard Roth Wife and children
Roth is reserved person when it comes to personal life, therefore he has never shared details on whether he is married or whether he has children. This section is to be updated.
Richard Roth Net Worth
According to Zacjohnson.com site, Roth has managed to accumulate a wealth amounting to $16 million as of 2024. His main sources of wealth being investments and Journalism.
Career
Roth’s journalism career began at AP Radio where he was a news anchor and reporter and WPIX-TV as a producer, both in New York City. In 1980 CNN was launched and Roth was employed immediately, as the deputy bureau chief and assignment editor based in New York. The following year he became the New York assistant bureau chief and from 1982-1986 he was serving as the Rome based bureau chief.
Roth hosted CNN’s special reports Murder by Numbers in 1992. He became the Senior United Nations correspondent in 1993 and hosted diplomatic license for 12 years until January 2006, when it was cancelled.
Some of his major reports includes: the 2008 presidential elections, the death of Michael Jackson, Overthrow of Communists government in Romania, Europe on The Brink, Tensions between United States and Iraq, The Iran nuclear crisis and more.
Kidney Transplant
On April 2022, Richard Roth underwent a successful kidney transplant which was donated to him by CNN’s deputy managing editor of Investigation unit, Samira Jafari. He had another transplant 25 years before which he had received from a deceased donor at had started to rapidly die inside of him.
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