Jenna Wolfe (born Jennifer Wolfe; February 26, 1974) is a national correspondent for NBC's Today, and the co-anchor of their Sunday edition , and had once substituted on the NBC Nightly News.

Broadcasting career[link]

From 2004 to 2007, she was the weekend morning sports anchor for WABC's Eyewitness News in New York City where she had a special segment called "Jenna's Beef," in which she editorialized an event from the world of sports that week. Prior to that, she worked for the Madison Square Garden Network, WPHL-TV in Philadelphia as the first female sportscaster, WICZ-TV in Binghamton, New York, WUHF-TV in Rochester, New York, and the Today Show as an intern. Aside from her journalistic duties, Wolfe has appeared as a judge on Food Network's Iron Chef America.

Personal life[link]

Wolfe was born in to Bennett and Sheila Wolfeld in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Pétionville, Haiti, before moving to the United States with her family in 1989. She had a Jewish upbringing.^[1] Wolfe graduated from Binghamton University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in French and English in 1996. She also attended SUNY Geneseo from 1992 to 1994.^[2] She currently lives in Manhattan.

References[link]

• Jenna Wolfe's All Day Debut
• "Ch. 2 lifts anchors for new shifts". New York Daily news. June 22, 2007. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/06/22/2007-06-22_ch_2_lifts_anchors_for_new_shifts-1.html. Retrieved 2009-08-09. 
• "Former Intern Returns To "Today", On-Air". Mediabistro.com. August 13, 2007. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/nbc/former_intern_returns_to_today_onair_65001.asp. Retrieved 2009-08-09. ^{[dead link]}
• Jenna Wolfe Assisting Home Renovators

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Stephanie Abrams (born October 27, 1978) is an American on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel, a 24-hour American cable television weather program. She has also done live reporting for the 2010 Winter Olympics at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Early life[link]

Stephanie Abrams was born in Miami, Florida and raised in Lake Clarke Shores and Wellington, Florida. She was a cheerleader in high school. Abrams parents divorced when she was young and much of her time was spent with her father, Dr. Barry Abrams, an infectious disease specialist. She attended the United States Space Camp twice and vacationed in science-rich locations such as Yellowstone National Park.^[1]

Education[link]

Abrams attended Meadow Park Elementary in West Palm Beach, Conniston Middle School, Forest Hill Community High School and graduated from Wellington High School.

Abrams graduated with a BS in geography minoring in mathematics from the University of Florida in Gainesville, graduating with honors and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She was a member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority.

Abrams' second degree was a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology from Florida State University in Tallahassee, where she graduated cum laude. At Florida State, Abrams, like other meteorology students, practiced on-air forecasts on FSU Live, a student-run news and weather production on a Tallahassee cable channel. She worked as a teacher's assistant at FSU, teaching a class about meteorology.^[2]

Abrams is a member of the National Weather Association and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and was president of the North Florida chapter of the AMS from 2002 to 2003. She holds the seal of approval from the AMS.

Career[link]

Abrams' first position was as a morning meteorologist at WTXL, the ABC affiliate in Tallahassee, Florida.^[3] In July 2003, Abrams began on-air work for The Weather Channel.

On the Weather Channel, she was a reporter and fill-in from 2003 to 2005. In 2005, She joined her first show on Weekend View as a co-host. In 2006, she became an on-camera meteorologist as co-host of "Abrams and Bettes: Beyond the Forecast" and then went on to "Weather Center", also with co-host Mike Bettes. On July 20, 2009, she began co-hosting "Wake Up With Al" with NBC's Al Roker on weekday mornings from 6–7 a.m. ET, and then joins Mike Bettes from 7–10 a.m. ET on "Your Weather Today". During the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she reported live from Vancouver February 8–28, 2010, with Al Roker for "Wake Up With Al" and "Your Weather Today". Abrams also fills in for Roker when he is on vacation, live from the network's Rockefeller Center studios in New York City.

Starting April 16, 2012, Abrams began hosting from the New York studio for a three month trial period.

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• The Weather Channel
• Meteorologists - The Weather Channel
• Press releases - The Weather Channel

Meredith Vieira
Meredith Vieira at Today in 2010
Born	Meredith Louise Vieira (1953-12-30) December 30, 1953 (age 58) East Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Occupation	Journalist Game show host
Years active	1975–present
Notable credit(s)	Dateline NBC (2006–present) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2002–present) Today (2006–2011) The View (1997–2006) 60 Minutes (1989–1991) West 57th (1985–1989)
Spouse	Richard M. Cohen (m. 1986–present)
Children	3

Meredith Louise Vieira (born December 30, 1953) is an American journalist, television personality, and game show host. She is best known for her roles as the original moderator of the ABC talk program The View and co-host of the long-running NBC News morning news program, Today. She currently contributes to Dateline NBC and Rock Center with Brian Williams, and hosts the syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, having replaced Regis Philbin in 2002. She also presented Intimate Portrait, a series on Lifetime.

Early years[link]

Meredith Vieira was born in East Providence, Rhode Island, to Mary Louisa Elsie Rosa Silveira Vieira (née Costa) (October 28, 1904 – November 5, 2004) and Dr. Edwin Vieira (May 15, 1904 – February 1987), both first-generation Portuguese Americans. She is the youngest of four children, with three older brothers.^[1] All four of Vieira’s grandparents came from the Azores — three from Faial Island, one of the nine islands in the archipelago. They all left for a better life in New England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, settling around Providence, Rhode Island. Vieira was reared in the Catholic faith, but has stated in recent interviews that she has "spirituality, not a religion."^[2]

She attended the Lincoln School, a Quaker all-girls school in Providence. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English from Tufts University.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

Vieira began her broadcasting career in 1975 as a news announcer for WORC radio in Worcester, Massachusetts, doing afternoon drive news during the B. J. Dean Show. She began a career in television working as a local reporter and anchor at WJAR-TV in Providence, eventually making her way into the newsroom at WCBS-TV in New York City where she was an investigative reporter from 1979 to 1982.

Vieira first gained national recognition as a CBS reporter based in their Chicago bureau from 1982 to 1984. She later became a correspondent for nationwide news-magazine shows including West 57th (1985–89) and 60 Minutes (1989–91). Her final assignment at CBS was as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News (1992–93). She moved to ABC initially as a correspondent for the news-magazine show Turning Point (1993–97). Following the cancellation of Turning Point, Vieira realized:

[edit] The View

Vieira served as the original moderator and co-host of ABC's The View from its debut in 1997 through the spring of 2006. As moderator, she introduced "Hot Topics," guided conversations, and broke to commercials. She began each live episode saying "Hello! And welcome to The View!" Vieira's final appearance on The View was June 9, 2006. Her co-hosts gave her a roast to commemorate her final appearance.

In August 2006, Vieira told Time that she hasn't watched The View since she left the show, except the episode when Star Jones announced she was leaving. She said it was "very sad" what's happened to it: "I'm proud of the work we did there, but it's not a good time in the history of the show... It's hard to watch. It sort of became a joke."^[3] On August 29, 2006, Vieira told the New York Post that she didn't mean that The View was a joke. She said the interview was taken out of context. "I felt that the media was turning [The View] into a joke, not that the show was a joke," she says. Time added a clarification to its website, saying "[Vieira] assures Time that in no way were her comments meant to be insensitive or derogatory..."^[4]

In 1999, Vieira began hosting Lifetime's Intimate Portrait, which chronicles the lives of women in art, entertainment, politics, business, science, journalism, and sports.

[edit] Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Vieira has hosted the American syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire since 2002—a continuation of the primetime show hosted by Regis Philbin. The daytime quiz show is syndicated by Buena Vista Television, a division of ABC. In 2005 and again in 2009, Vieira won a Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Game Show Host for her role on Millionaire, being the second woman to ever win an Emmy in this category (after Betty White for Just Men! in 1983), and the first to win multiple times. As an executive producer, Vieira has a financial investment in the show.

Vieira was a celebrity contestant on the Philbin version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire before she hosted the syndicated version, winning $250,000 for her charity. She even made an appearance on the ABC version during the show's 10th anniversary series, hosting its final segment while Philbin himself was given the opportunity to answer one question in order to win $50,000 for his selected charity.

[edit] Today

Vieira with Michael Bublé

Vieira accepted an offer to succeed Katie Couric as co-anchor of Today on April 6, 2006, the day after Couric announced that she would depart the show to become anchor of the CBS Evening News. The following day, Vieira announced on The View that she would be leaving the show to be co-anchor of Today, a role View co-host and ABC News journalist Barbara Walters had filled nearly four decades earlier during her tenure at NBC during the 1960s and 1970s. Vieira hosted the show with Matt Lauer from September 13, 2006, through June 8, 2011, also becoming a contributing anchor for Dateline NBC.^[5][6]

Vieira continued as host of Millionaire while appearing on Today. As part of her contract with Millionaire, Vieira agreed not to appear on Today during hours that would conflict with the airing of the game show on competing stations. As a result, she rarely appeared on the third or fourth hours of Today. Her first appearance during the third hour came on June 25, 2008, for "Today Throws a Wedding". She also appeared during the entire third hour during the Beijing Olympics, Vancouver Olympics and the Barack Obama inauguration on January 20, 2009.

Vieira announced on May 9, 2011, that she would depart as co-host in the following month, but would remain at NBC News in an as-yet undetermined role. Her last appearance as co-host was on June 8; she returned to Today on October 31, 2011, for the show's Halloween episode. She is currently a contributor to Dateline NBC and a correspondent on Rock Center with Brian Williams. She continues to take on special assignments for The Today Show, such as reporting on from London on Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, in 2012.

Other appearances[link]

• Vieira "hosts" a spoof of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, called Who Wants to Be King of the Jungle? on the second disc of the Special Edition DVD of The Lion King 1½. Timon the Meerkat serves as the contestant; Pumbaa as an audience member for the "Poll the Herd" lifeline as well as being the "Phone an Animal" lifeline.
• Vieira is a former spokesperson for Bayer, serving as an on-air personality in their commercials.
• In 2000, she hosted the Academy Awards pre-show for ABC.^[7]
• Vieira had a brief stint in the Broadway show Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2003, appearing in various scenes.^[8]
• Vieira had a cameo as the host of a proposed game show in the 2004 version of The Stepford Wives.
• Vieira also hosts a series of featurettes that are included on the first season DVDs of the ABC television show Desperate Housewives. Vieira interviews cast members and the show's creators in California. Vieira was required to sign a secrecy agreement in order to allow her access to script secrets.
• Vieira made her first guest appearance on The View since leaving the show on 8 October 2007.
• Vieira had guest appearances in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock in the episodes "Greenzo" and "Larry King." In another episode, it is implied that she sexually harasses Kenneth Parcell.
• Vieira made a cameo role as a news reporter in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
• Vieira made an appearance as Broomsy Witch in Shrek Forever After.
• Vieira made an appearance on the "Chumdog Millionaire" episode of Pawn Stars, in which, in a dream sequence, she reads the million dollar question to Chumlee.
• Vieira appeared in the 2010 film Get Him to the Greek as herself in a scene where the main characters appear on The Today Show.
• Vieira made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show as herself in a scene where she wanted to be the 300,000th audience member of the show, but instead was the 300,001st.^[9]
• Vieira made a cameo appearance in the Doctor Who episode "The Wedding of River Song".
• Vieira was a guest investigator on the Ghost Hunters episode "Murdered Matron" when The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) investigated the Sailors' Snug Harbor on Staten Island, New York City.

Personal life[link]

Vieira married CBS News journalist Richard M. Cohen on June 14, 1986.^[10][11] They reside with their three children in Irvington, Westchester County, New York. Richard Cohen has had multiple sclerosis since he was 25 years old, and has had two bouts of colon cancer, one in 1999 and one a year later.^[12][13] She is a Vegan. ^[14]

Balancing family and career[link]

Vieira joined 60 Minutes in 1989 following the birth of her first child. Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 Minutes, allowed her to work part-time for two seasons so she could care for her child. After that, she would work full-time. But after two years, she became pregnant again and asked to continue the part-time arrangement. Hewitt declined her request, deciding instead to hire someone who would work full-time. Her departure from the show garnered headlines, as a national debate started to take place about whether women could balance both family and career. She turned down opportunities to co-host The Early Show on CBS, and ABC's Good Morning America when her children were young.

Vieira discusses her family and career decisions in the book Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three American Women by Elsa Walsh.^[15]

Honors[link]

In 2006, Vieira received the P.T. Barnum Award from Tufts University for her exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment.

Career timeline[link]

• 1985–1989: West 57th
• 1989–1993: 60 Minutes correspondent
• 1992–1993: CBS Morning News co-anchor
• 1993–1997: Turning Point correspondent
• 1997–2006: The View moderator
• 2002–present: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire host
• 2006–present: Dateline NBC contributing anchor
• September 2006– June 2011: Today co-host
• June 2011–present: NBC News Special Correspondent

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Meredith Vieira on Charlie Rose
• Meredith Vieira at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Meredith Vieira in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Meredith Vieira at the Notable Names Database

Savannah Guthrie
Guthrie at the 2012 Time 100 gala
Born	(1971-12-27) December 27, 1971 (age 40) Tucson, Arizona[1]
Residence	Washington, D.C.
Education	University of Arizona (B.A.), Georgetown University (J.D.)
Employer	NBC News
Known for	White House Correspondent, 2008–2011 The Daily Rundown co-anchor, 2010–11 Today co-anchor, 2011–present Chief Legal Analyst 2011–present
Home town	Tucson, Arizona
Spouse	Mark Orchard (m. 2005) «start: (2005)»"Marriage: Mark Orchard to Savannah Guthrie" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Savannah_Guthrie) (separated)

Savannah Guthrie (born December 27, 1971) is an American journalist and attorney, working for NBC News.

After serving as a White House correspondent^[1] between 2008 and 2011 and as co-anchor of the MSNBC program The Daily Rundown between 2010 and 2011, Guthrie was announced as the co-host of Today's third hour alongside Natalie Morales and Al Roker. In that role she also substitutes as news anchor and main co-host, and appears as the Chief Legal Analyst^[2] across all NBC platforms.

Guthrie joined NBC in September 2007 as a legal analyst and correspondent, regularly reported on trials throughout the country.

Biography[link]

Savannah Guthrie is a native of Tucson, Arizona, and graduated from Amphitheater High School.

Guthrie received her undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Arizona before receiving her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. Guthrie is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Arizona, having scored first place on the Arizona Bar Exam. Guthrie was a member of Order of the Coif and received the International Academy of Trial Lawyers' Student Advocacy award for her work with victims of domestic violence. She worked for the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where she served as a litigation associate, specializing in white-collar criminal defense. Prior to serving in this capacity, Guthrie was a Law Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching a first-year Legal Research and Writing workshop on a weekly basis.

Before joining Court TV (now truTV), Guthrie worked at NBC affiliates WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. as a reporter and KVOA-TV in Tucson, Arizona as a reporter/anchor. Previously Guthrie worked as a reporter and anchor at KMIZ-TV in Columbia, Missouri.

Guthrie covered high profile legal proceedings including the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, the abduction and murder trial of Carlie Brucia, the Martha Stewart case, and the Michael Jackson trial. Guthrie covered Sarah Palin in the 2008 presidential race from Fairbanks, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Sioux City, Iowa and Washington. On December 18, 2008, Guthrie was named White House correspondent for NBC News. In this capacity she contributes to all NBC News properties.^[1] She has also substituted for David Shuster on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Willie Geist on Way Too Early. She substituted for David Gregory on "Meet the Press" on August 21, 2011 and April 1, 2012.

Guthrie was the commencement speaker for the University of Arizona's 2011 graduation ceremony as well as for Hobart and William Smith Colleges' 2012 graduating classes.

[edit] Today

After substituting for both Meredith Vieira and Ann Curry on Today, it was confirmed on May 9, 2011, that Guthrie would become co-host of the 9am hour alongside Natalie Morales and Al Roker, as well as the show's Chief Legal Editor. The move came after Meredith Vieira announced her departure from the show as co-host of the main program, and the subsequent promotions of Ann Curry and Natalie Morales to main co-host and news anchor respectively. Guthrie departed The Daily Rundown for Today on June 8, 2011.^[3] She also became NBC News's Chief Legal Analyst, making her first appearance in this role on May 25, 2011.^[2]

Personal life[link]

While covering the trial of Michael Jackson, Guthrie met English-born BBC News presenter Mark Orchard. After Orchard divorced his first wife, journalist Anne Kornblut, the couple married in December 2005.^[4] The couple is now reportedly separated and Guthrie has since appeared on air without a wedding ring.^[5]

In an online news article she stated her height at 5'10"^[6]

References[link]