Personal Life
Frances Rivera was born on 1970 in Philippines and has two siblings Andre and Marc. Her family moved from the Philippines to Austin, Texas when she was 3 years old and later settled in Dallas.
With her family in America, she went back to her home country to complete her education. She went to the University of the Philippines Dillman and graduated by earning a degree in journalism.
She tied the knot with a Boston mortgage broker, Stuart Fraass in 2003 and the couple was blessed with two children. The first one, Tessa, was born in 2010 and the second one, Laz Conrad River was born in the fall of 2012.
Professional Life
After graduating in Philippines, River came back to her family in the United States and started out her Journalism career at CBS Morning News in New York City. Later she worked at KWTV, a CBS affiliate at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and KFDX, an NBC affiliate in Wichita Falls, Texas.
She has also done some off-camera work at CBS News’ The Morning Show and managed to cover the 1996 Presidential Campaign. She has also been the reporter and co-host for Asian America, a PBS show.
Starting 2001, Rivera started working in WHDH in Boston, where she was promoted to news anchor after 5 years of hard work. Rivera left WHDH in the August of 2011 and moved to New York TV for personal and family reasons.
In New York City, she began working for WPIX Pix11 Morning News in New York City, where she broadcasted many events including the Hurricane Irene. She left WPIX in the August of 2013 and went to MSNBC for a co-anchor job in 2014.
Social Media
The 47 year old beauty has attracted a lot of fame and earned recognition from audience all over the world. As a news presenter in many big news delivering platforms, it’s not surprising that she has lots of fans and followers, especially on social networking sites like Twitter and Instagram.
Available at @FrancesRivera on Twitter, she has accumulated 12.9 thousand followers and has tweeted around 6400 times. Also available on Instagram as @francesrivera, she has 3200 other Instagram accounts following her.
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Net Worth and Salary
It has not yet been revealed what the successful Filipino-American journalist earns annually but her net worth is estimated to be approximately around $3 million.
She is fully deserving of such a massive net worth and her long and prosperous career serves as proof of this. She owns an apartment in New York and is fond of collecting expensive cars and gadgets.
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