David Muir first joined ABC News in 2003 as an anchor for World News Now. He was also the main substitute anchor for World News with Diane Sawyer, which he eventually succeeded on September 2014. He was also a co-anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20. He now hosts his own program World News Tonight with David Muir.
Muir has received multiple Edward R. Murrow and Emmy awards for his national and international journalism. According to the Tyndall Report, he is considered as one of the most visible journalists in America in 2012 and 2013. His World News, Tonight with David Muir, is currently the most-watched newscast in the United States.
Chris Cuomo – $2.5m
Chris Cuomo currently works at CNN and is hosting his own regular weeknight show called Cuomo Prime Time. He is also the co-anchor of CNN’s morning show. He was previously the ABC News chief law and justice correspondent as well as co-anchor for ABC’s 20/20.
Cuomo earned an undergraduate degree at Yale University and obtained his Juris Doctor (J.D.) in Fordham University. His foray into journalism started by appearing on networks such as MSNBC, CNBC, and CNN to discuss social and political issues. He soon became a correspondent for Fox News and Fox Files, covering different stories on controversial social issues. He was also a political policy analyst for Fox News.
Thomas Roberts – $1.5m
Like most journalists, Thomas Roberts had his first job reporting for a small cable station in Maryland before moving to California and working as a field producer and writer for KNSD, an NBC affiliate. He moved again to Nebraska and became a general-assignment reporter with an ABC-affiliate station. His big break came when he joined CNN in 2001 and was the weekday anchor on CNN Headline News. In 1992, Roberts got an Emmy Award nomination for his investigation into a local puppy mill that got shut down as a result of his report.
He went to Los Angeles and worked for some time for Entertainment Tonight and The Insider before realizing that entertainment news was not for him. Roberts then served as a news anchor for MSNBC Live and Weekend Today. He also anchored Live with Thomas Roberts and Out There with Thomas Roberts, a weekly news and discussion centered on LGBT issues. He is set to anchor on WGCL-46 soon, which is a CBS affiliate in Atlanta.
Al Roker – $8m
Al Roker is currently the weather anchor on NBC’s Today, and sometimes, he sits as the co-anchor on NBC Nightly News. But he was first a professional meteorologist with a degree in B.A. in Communications at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976. In fact, he has an inactive American Meteorological Society Television Seal #238.
Roker had his break in 1983 when he regularly substituted on NBC News at Sunrise, and then he filled in for different anchors on the Today Show from 1990 to 1995. It was only after the retirement of Willard Scott that he began doing Today’s weekday weather full time. On December 14, 2018, Roker was honored for his 40 years of work at NBC.
Christiane Amanpour – $2m
Christiane Amanpour is British-Iranian and spent her childhood in Tehran until she was 11 when she was sent to a boarding school in England. She moved to the United States to study journalism. Her first job in 1983 was in CNN as a desk assistant. Because of her international background, she was a natural at reporting foreign affairs. Her first major coverage was the Iran-Iraq War, and in 1990, her reports of the Persian Gulf War gave her prominence and took CNN to a higher degree of news coverage.
Amanpour has hosted other series such as Amanpour, This Week, and Good Morning America. She is now the Chief International Anchor for CNN as well as the host of Amanpour & Company on PBS and the Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News.