Hala Basha-Gorani popularly known as Hala Gorani is an American news anchor/correspondent working for CNN International based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is currently involved in hosting CNN International’s 7 p.m CET International Desk from CNN Centre.
You all might be familiar with her professional life but only a few of you might know her personal life regarding her marriage and husband. Like other journalists, she also prefers to keep her personal life far from the media. Today, we will be telling you about her married life and husband, so stay on our page:
Hala Gorani's Married Life With Husband, Christian Streib
The journalist, Hala Gorani is married to her boyfriend turned husband, Christian Streib on June 15, 2015. They held their wedding ceremony in Jardine, Majorelle, Morocco attended by their friends and families. Her husband, Streib is a German CNN photojournalist.
The couple dated each other for several years before getting married. Even after dating for months, she manages to keep her love life far from the limelight. After the marriage, the husband-wife couple started their professional career together.
The pair is together for years now and still sharing a beautiful relationship. But, they don't have any children. To this date, the couple is free from any kind of rumor about their divorce and an extramarital affair. Gorani currently lives in London with her spouse.
Hala Gorani's Biography And Career
Hala was born on 1970 March 1 in Seattle, Washington, the USA to Syrian and French Parents. Hala is a common Arabic name meaning Corona. Hala Gorani was mainly raised in Paris and also has lived in Algeria. Thus she can speak English, French and Arabic languages fluently.
Hala Gorani got her bachelor's degree in economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and graduated from Institut d'études politiques popularly known as Sciences Po in the year 1995. Hala Gorani is a great fan of the American television program American Idol. She has been dedicated to the first novel of French novelist Yann Moix named “Jubilations Vers le Ciel” in the year 1996.
She has the capability to catch the attention of her audiences leading her to be one of the successful journalists in the television arena today. She is the famous female anchor and one of the experienced journalists in the CNN network at present.
Hala Gorani had started her career as a reporter for La Voix du Nord and Agence France-Presse. In 1998, Hala had joined the CNN Network after a stint at Bloomberg Television in London. She started her work in CNN as an anchor for CNN International’s European breakfast show, CNN Today. Since then she began to report from every country located in the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and the Palestine territories. In November 2005, she became the first television reporter to have reported on the ground of Amman, Jordan after the attacks on two hotels by Al Qaeda’s suicide bombers.
Hala has also covered several of the reports on Middle East Countries. She had covered the news on the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war from Lebanon which earned CNN an honor of the Edward R. Murrow Award. She had also covered the news of the respective French presidential elections in the years 2002 and 2007 from CNN. Hala Gorani had attended and moderated the closing sessions of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland which had featured several business and political leaders including Tony Blair, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, and JP Morgan Chase & Co. Chairman and CEO James Dimon.
Hala has helped the CNN network honored with several awards from her different coverages which include her coverage of gay life in the Middle East which helped the network to earn a nomination for a Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) award, 2010 Haiti earthquake coverage led the CNN Network to be honored with one of the highest honors in international journalism called Golden Nymph Award, her reports from Jordan and Egypt and coverage from Arab Spring helped the network to win Peabody Award in 2012.
Along with the contribution to CNN’s prestige, Hala has received a News and Doc u mentary Emmy for her coverage of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Besides this, Hala has interviewed several of the renowned and important personalities mentioning the Dalai Lama, Jimmy Carter, Tony Blair, Rafik Hariri, etc. Having been such a successful one, she is in the demand of every news channel.
Net Worth And Salary
Hala Gorani has collected a large amount of money from her career as a journalist. As of 2019, the media personality has a net worth of $1 million, according to some genuine sources. She currently serves as an anchor and senior correspondent for CNN International. There, her annual salary is over $61,000.
