Cynthia McFadden

McFadden was born on the 27th of May on 1956 in Lewiston, Maine, United States. She attended the Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in 1978. She went to the Columbia Law School in New York City and graduated with a Juris Doctorate degree in 1984.

McFadden tied the marital knot with Michael John Davies on the 9th of September, 1989. Davies is an editor and publisher of the Harford Courant. The couple divorced in 1996. McFadden was then involved in a relationship with James Hoge, a Foreign Affairs editor, and had a son, Spencer Graham McFadden Hoge, with him in 1998.

McFadden worked as the executive producer at Fred Friendly’s Media and Society seminars at Columbia for around 5 years (1984 to 1991). In 1991, she moved on to Courtroom Television Network to work as an anchor and producer. From there, McFadden was hired by ABC News as their legal correspondent in 1994. In 2004, McFadden hosted Primetime.

After a great run at ABC Network, being the host of Nighttime for almost nine years, McFadden moved to NBC as the senior legal and investigate correspondent and handles the network’s investigative unit across all NBC News platforms.

McFadden has also been a contributor to wowOwow.com, a platform for women to discuss on topics such as culture and politics. She is the co-chair of board of IWMF (International Women’s Media Foundation).

McFadden has managed to gain a lot of popularity on social media because of her regular appearance on big news stations such as ABC News and NBC News and also because of the fact that she has won many awards.

She is available on Twitter at @CynthiaMcFadden and since joining on February 2009, she has received 57000 followings on her account and has tweeted around 3200 times. Also available on Instagram as @cynthiamcfadden, she has 2100 followers.

Being a senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News certainly pays well. McFadden is an epitome for the phrase ‘started from the bottom, now we’re here’.

She currently has an estimated net worth of $3 million and by reports, it’s said that she enjoys an annual salary of $76 thousand approximately.