Brooke Baldwin Net Worth

What is Brooke Baldwin's Net Worth?

Brooke Baldwin is an American television host, award-winning journalist, and best-selling author who has a net worth of $10 million. Brooke Baldwin is best known for serving as a news anchor from 2008 to 2021 on the television show CNN Newsroom. She is also known for her outspoken stance on gender inequality, describing herself as a "privileged white woman" who didn't find her voice until she began speaking up for the marginalized women in America.

Salary

Brooke Baldwin's peak annual salary at CNN was $4 million per year.

Early Years

Lauren Brooke Baldwin was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 12, 1979. She attended the private Westminster Schools in Atlanta and later double-majored at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she graduated in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in Spanish and Journalism. She then went on to study at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico.

Television News

In 2001, Brooke Baldwin began working for WVIR-TV in Charlottesville, Virginia, and followed that with a position as morning anchor at WOWK-TV in Huntington, West Virginia. Eventually, she began working for television station WTTG in Washington, D.C., as the lead reporter for their 10:00 p.m. broadcasts.

In 2008, she joined the multinational news organization Cable News Network—also known as CNN—which she has said was always her dream. She worked from the company's Atlanta, Georgia headquarters until 2014 when the network relocated her to New York.

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The Split with CNN

On February 16, 2021, Brooke Baldwin announced that she would leave CNN in April. Three years later, she wrote a first-person essay that appeared in the American monthly magazine Vanity Fair. The piece stated, "When I signed off from CNN Newsroom on April 16, 2021, I couldn't tell the whole truth. I wasn't allowed to—and probably still am not."

Baldwin explained in her essay how CNN had moved her to New York while her executive producer remained in Atlanta, an arrangement that led to her allegedly being treated as if she was incapable of covering hard-hitting news stories on her own. She claimed that she often felt she was being gaslighted.

Baldwin explained in the piece how, in 2019, she had requested that the president of CNN move her executive producer to another team as she felt their working relationship no longer worked. Her request was denied, and she said that a few weeks later, she was called to the company president's office and reminded that her show could be taken from her and assigned to another person within 24 hours. The essay went on to say that, not long after this exchange, the length of her show was cut in half and that, in January 2021, she was informed that she was being let go from the network.

Baldwin wrote that, during her time at CNN, she had become "known for giving you the news, straight up, with dignity and compassion." Her dismissal lit a fire, which fueled her to begin speaking about gender inequality affecting other women and, eventually, admitting that she had been affected by it even as "a privileged white woman."

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Experiences, Honors & Accolades

Brooke Baldwin's documentary "To Catch A Serial Killer" won a Silver World Medal for Best Investigative Report at the New York Festival International Television and Film Awards in 2012. The film concerns Larry Dewayne Hall, who drove around in his van kidnapping girls and murdering them.

During her time with CNN, Baldwin covered Barack Obama's second presidential inauguration in 2013 and Donald Trump's 2017 presidential inauguration.

Baldwin received a 2014 Emmy Award nomination for her news coverage of the protests in New York City following the fatal prohibited chokehold of Eric Garner by a police officer and, the following year, she was named a Peabody Award finalist after hosting a Washington, D.C. town hall about gun violence.

In 2015, Baldwin hosted a club event for the Abercrombie and Kent travel agency and, the next year, was a presenter at the L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth Celebration in New York City. The celebration honored ten women who volunteered their time and energy to serve their communities.

In 2017, Baldwin hosted the White House Correspondent's Jam for the Mother Nature Network website, gave the commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and spoke at the 7th annual Blue Star Neighbors Celebration in Washington, D.C., which honors Americans who support military families. That same year, she created and began hosting the CNN digital series "American Woman."

Gender Inequality

Brooke Baldwin has been outspoken regarding her initial hesitancy to come forward regarding what she feels to be issues of gender inequality. She has asserted that her attempts to maintain peace by secret-keeping started back when she was 21, and she and her mother, Christine, discovered her father at the home of another woman. When Baldwin's mother decided not to confront the situation, Baldwin felt she had no choice but to follow suit. The secret was one she had to carry for years. Her mother eventually filed for divorce, and Baldwin severed her relationship with her father.

Her book "Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power" was released in April 2021. The book explores the concept of women leaning on each other in all areas of life to provide support, empowerment, inspiration, and strength and to enact meaningful change.

Life after CNN

On January 10, 2024, Brooke Baldwin began hosting the American reality television series "The Trust: A Game of Greed," aired on Netflix. The show involves eleven strangers who are placed in a luxury villa and offered $250,000 to share amongst themselves while deciding who to eliminate.

Personal Life

In May 2018, Brooke Baldwin married British producer James Fletcher. The couple had been dating since 2015 and had become engaged in 2017. Baldwin wore a Naeem Khan wedding dress as the two exchanged vows at Liberty Farms in Ghent, New York – an organic farm and boutique glamping site on over 300 acres of land. Baldwin filed for divorce from Fletcher in February 2023. She is currently in a relationship with American writer and film producer Peter Landesman.

Baldwin climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2015, an experience that she said took her out of her comfort zone. She endured two weeks without makeup, cell phone, showering, or shaving and spent nights sleeping in a tent. She later described the experience as "liberating."

Baldwin participates in The Heroes Project, an organization that helps veterans who have sacrificed limbs learn how to climb mountains.

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