Barbara Starr
An American news journalist Barbara Starr is serving as a correspondent for CNN based in Washington, DC. She reports directly from the Pentagon. Starr also reports on the military campaigns against ISIS. She also reports after investigating terror attacks and military and intelligence operations. She is regular on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, New Day, like CNN shows. She gives exclusive coverage of big and breaking news of the US military and political situation on a global level.
Barbara Starr Early Life & Education
Barbara Starr was born on 11th September 1950, in the United States, to immigrant parents, under the birth sign Virgo. She belongs to white-American ethnicity and holds an American nationality.
She graduated from the California State University at Northridge with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism. The 71 years old news reporter hasn't disclosed much about her parents and early life.
Let's Discuss Her Career
After graduation, Starr started to look for a job. She started her professional career in journalism in 1979 working for Business Week magazine covering energy matters till 1988. Having spent almost a decade with Business Week, Starr moved to Jane’s Defense Weekly magazine from 1988 to 1997.
For the magazine, she used to cover news on national security and defense policy. Later on, Starr joined ABC News as a producer covering Pentagon. For the coverage, she won a Local Emmy Award.
Starr’s big break came in 2001 as she got hired by CNN as the lead Pentagon correspondent. With CNN, she has traveled to many countries covering the news of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa. The American news anchor has also reported directly from Russia, Central America, the Persian Gulf, and the Chinese-North Korean border. She became the only journalist to have traveled with the commanding general of U.S. Central Command, Gen, in 2016.
Starr is one of the gems in the CNN network for her outstanding reporting. She has reported on numerous wounded troops, the homeless veterans and also has reported on the fallen Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery.
Criticism
A person cannot think of being applauded all the time for their work. Sometimes appreciations and sometimes critics are obvious. Likewise, Starr was criticized for being reported as “a spokesperson for The Pentagon’.
She was criticized by reporter Chris Hayes of MSNBC for leaking information that was at least as potentially harmful to national security. And in 2015, she got criticized by Kenyans through the Twitter hashtag for calling Kenya “a terror hotbed” as Obama was traveling to East African nations.
What Is Her Net Worth In 2022?
Having such an influencing endeavor in journalism, CNN must have paid Starr, a handsome amount of salary. From a source, it came to know that CNN is paying $40,000 per annum salary to a freelance journalist.
Therefore, it can be believed the veteran news anchor is paid more than that. There is no exact revelation on her actual net worth but looking at her tentative annual salary, it can be assumed she has a net worth of around $3 Million. The average salary of a CNN news anchor in 2022 is in the range of $40500- $10 Million per annum. Similarly, the experienced news reporters are provided around $101500 per annum by CNN. The media personality might have enough money to live a quality life. She might have collected an impressive amount from her news career.
Furthermore, she was also nominated for the News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form in 2008, and also the News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newscast in 2015.
Personal Life
Some sources have reported Starr is married but is divorced and currently single whereas some sources have kept quiet on her relationship status and wedding details. It is hard to mention if she is married and living with her husband and children or if she is divorced and even if she has children or her past/present boyfriend. Though her exact relationship status is unclear, she might be living a happy life with her belongings.
Nothing is known about the family life of Starr for she wished to keep her personal life out of the media radar and not to talk about it. Also, there seems a bit of confusion on the sources because of another Barbara Starr, an actress, the original name Vera Lorena Webb. She was born in 1904 and was married and divorced.