Who is Chris Wallace? Flash Uganda Media looks at her biography, age, husband, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Peter, Norma Kaphan, Mike Wallace, Bill Leonard, Leonard, Elizabeth Farrell, Andrew Wallace, Jack and Luke, William, Caroline, and James, the early life and education of an American TV anchor, political commentator, author and journalist.
Christopher Wallace commonly known as Chris Wallace is an American TV anchor, political commentator, author and journalist.
Chris Wallace is a CNN anchor and the host of the comprehensive interview series “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” on Max.
He has worked as a correspondent, moderator or anchor for CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox News, and now CNN during his half-century career in journalism.
He hosted Meet the Press and served as an anchor for NBC Nightly News.
During his time with Fox News, he held interviews with prominent figures in politics, including Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Barack Obama.
Net Worth
As of 2023, Chris Wallace’s estimated net worth is $25 million.
His investments are estimated to bring in over $7 million annually.
Along with several expensive cars, he owns a million-dollar home in Washington.
Early Life and Education
On October 12, 1947, Christopher Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Norma Kaphan and longtime CBS 60 Minutes reporter Mike Wallace.
Given that his parents were Jews, Wallace is Jewish. Since he was born on Columbus Day, he was given the name Christopher.
His older brother, Peter (1942–1962), passed away at the age of 19 following an accident while mountain climbing in Greece.
He was raised by his mother and stepfather, Bill Leonard, the president of CBS News, following his parents’ divorce when he was just a year old. Wallace did not have a relationship with his father, Mike, until he was fourteen years old, following the death of his older brother Peter.
He was first exposed to political journalism by Leonard, who employed him to work as Walter Cronkite’s assistant during the 1964 Republican National Convention.
Wallace completed his high school education at The Hotchkiss School.
Chris Wallace started his career as a broadcaster for WHRB, the campus radio station, before graduating from Harvard University.
He was also admitted to Yale Law School’s legal program, but he decided to focus on his media career instead and started working for The Boston Globe.
Family and Relationships
Chris Wallace has had two marriages. He wed Elizabeth Farrell in 1973, and the two of them had four children together: Andrew Wallace, who is the father of Jack and Luke; Megan Wallace, the mother of Sabine and Livia, Peter Farrell Wallace, the father of William, Caroline, and James Wallace as well as Catherine Wallace. They later divorced.
He then got married to Lorraine Martin Smothers in 1997; she is a published author and chef who had previously been Dick Smothers’ wife.
From her first marriage, Lorraine had two children: Sarah Smothers and Remick Smothers.
Jennifer Breheny Wallace, daughter-in-law of Chris Wallace and wife of his son Peter, is a journalist and best-selling author of the book Never Enough, which was released in 2023.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Chris Wallace was employed by CBS as an anchor for the Chicago station WBBM-TV for a while in the early 1970s.
In 1975, Wallace started working for NBC as a network journalist. He spent 14 years there as a reporter for WNBC-TV in New York City.
After that, he moved to work as a political correspondent for NBC News in the Washington bureau. In 1982, he co-anchored and read the news on the Today Show alongside Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley from Washington.
In that same year, from 1982 to 1989, he also served as chief White House correspondent.
He was an anchor of the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 1984 and then from 1986 to 1987. Wallace was also a moderator of Meet the Press from 1987 to 1988.
He switched from NBC to ABC in late 1988. He hosted Nightline on occasion while working as the senior correspondent for Primetime Live at ABC News.
Wallace left ABC in 2003 after 14 years to work at Fox News.
After taking over for Tony Snow in 2003, Wallace started hosting Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
Wallace had covered almost every significant political event during his eighteen years at Fox, landing several high-profile interviews with politicians and dignitaries around the country.
He got President Barack Obama to do his first interview with Fox in February 2009.
Wallace, Bret Baier, and Megyn Kelly moderated the 2016 Republican Party presidential debate on Fox News on March 3, 2016.
In 2017, he conducted the first interview with President Donald Trump following his election.
Wallace announced that December 12, 2021, would be his last day hosting Fox News Sunday.
Wallace was later revealed to have been hired by CNN to present a new show “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” for CNN+ that debuted in April 2022.
Following CNN+’s closure on April 28, 2022, it became known that Who’s Talking had resumed production and would now air on CNN and HBO Max.
The show is currently in its third season after having its first and second.
It was announced in August 2023 that Wallace will also be hosting The Chris Wallace Show, a new Saturday morning show, from 10 to 11 a.m. ET.
Achievements and Awards
Chris Wallace served as a well-known television journalist and anchor for several major networks during his lengthy and illustrious career.
He is the only person known to have hosted and moderated multiple prominent American political Sunday morning talk shows.
He was named one of the most reliable TV news anchors in America in 2018.
Chris Wallace has received multiple awards and medals over his career for his exceptional contributions to the journalism community.
In 2013, the Radio Television Digital News Association presented him with the Paul White Award, which it bestows annually on a lifetime achievement in radio journalism.
He was awarded The Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism by the International Centre for Journalists in 2017.
In addition to the National Press Foundation Award for Broadcast Excellence (2011), Wallace has won three News & Documentary Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a George Polk Award (1992), and the DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award (1993).
Additionally, he has received:
The National Press Foundation’s 2012 Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism
Dr. Ben Carson, an Awards Council member, presented the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award to him in 2014.
The Congressional Medal of Honor Society, the “Tex” McCrary Journalism Award, and the Culture and Media Institute’s “The Freedom of Speech Award” in 2018.
At the institute’s yearly fundraising gala in November 2020, he received the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism.
He is the author of the books: Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage (2004) and First Lady: A Portrait of Nancy Reagan (1986).
He is also the New York Times bestselling author of two books, Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World and Countdown Bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice.
Controversies
Wallace had voiced concerns to Fox management regarding the network’s opinion hosts, specifically regarding Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson’s growing focus on fabrications regarding the US Capitol attack on January 6 and the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Wallace found Carlson’s unique Patriot Purge to be especially unsettling. After the election of 2020, he claimed, the work environment at Fox became “increasingly unsustainable”.
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