Jim Acosta Biography
Jim Acosta is an American News Anchor best known for working at CNN as Chief Domestic Correspondent and anchor. He is a former CNN’s chief white house correspondent when Donald Trump was the President. Acosta is also renowned for severally clashing with Trump at press briefings. He had also covered Obama’s administration as the senior white house Correspondent for CNN. He became the Chief Domestic Correspondent and anchor on 11 January 2021 when Trump was about to leave the office.
Jim Acosta’s Age
He was born on 17 April 1971 as Abilio James Acosta in Washington, DC United States of America. His birth sign is Aries and belongs to mixed Ethnicity. He turned 52 in 2023.
Jim Acosta Height
Acosta’s height is 5feet 9inches.
Jim Acosta Education
He studied at Annandale High School and graduated in 1989. Acosta then proceeded to James Madison University where he graduated with bachelor’s degree in mass journalism Communication with minor in political Science. As a student he volunteered for WXJM, a student run radio station and also worked at WSVA Radio as a reporter.
Jim Acosta parents and Siblings
Apparently, Acosta’s parents’ names are not known. His father migrated from Santa Maria Del Rosario, Cuba to United States as a refugee three weeks before the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was 11 years old and was raised in Virginia. His mother belongs to Irish and Czech ancestry. Unfortunately, his parents divorced when he was 5 years old and as a result he was raised by a single mother who worked as bartender. It’s not known if he has any siblings.
Jim Acosta wife and Children
He married to Sharon Mobley Stow, a medical health practitioner whom he had met in college in 1999. The duo unfortunately divorced in 2017 after 24 years of marriage. In their marriage they welcomed three children Hartley, Peter and the third child’s name is not known to the public.
Jim Acosta’s salary and Net worth
He receives an annual salary of $107,512 and his estimated net worth is $5 million.
Jim Acosta Career
Acosta’s first job as a journalist was at WMAL Radio in Washington DC in 1994. He moved to WTTG TV to work as a desk assistant. He also worked at WBIR TV as a reporter and Substitute anchor in Knoxville, Tennessee from 1995-1998.
The journalist joined KTVT TV in 1998 in Dallas to work as a reporter and left in 2000. The broadcaster moved to WBBM TV in Chicago where he worked as a reporter up to 2001. He later worked in CBS News as a correspondent based in Dallas and Chicago until 2003. Acosta was transferred as correspondent based in New York and later Atlanta. He joined CNN in April 2007 and covered the 2008 presidential campaigns of Obama and Hillary Clinton. In 2012 he rose to ranks becoming CNN’s national political correspondent, in 2018 he became Chief White house correspondent and in January 2021 he was named chief Domestic Correspondent.
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