Meg Oliver Biography
Meg Oliver is a media personality serving as a correspondent for CBS News based in New York City. Oliver reports for all CBS News programs and platforms, including “CBS Mornings,” “CBS This Morning: Saturday,” the “CBS Evening News” and the CBS News Streaming Network, CBS News’ premier 24/7 anchored streaming news service.
Meg Oliver Age
According to my information, she is 52 years old as of 2023. Meg was born on 7 December 1970 in Birmingham, Michigan, United States.
Meg Oliver Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall which os approximated as 1.67m or 167cm.
Meg Oliver Nationality
Oliver holds American nationality.
Meg Oliver Education
Oliver graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Montana.
Meg Oliver Family
Meg was born and brought up by her parents but she has not revealed any information regarding them. It’s also not known if she has any siblings.
Meg Oliver Husband and Kids
Meg is married to John Basinger, a corporate lawyer and a graduate of Harvard University. The duo met through a Montana connection in early 2000. John and Meg exchanged their marriage vows on October 18, 2002, at an intimate ceremony. Back on 19 October 2017, Meg shared a photo of their 15th year anniversary with the caption,” 15 years ago life got better”. She posted another photo of their 17th-anniversary celebration on October 18, 2019.
She and her husband are the proud parents of three children.
Meg Oliver CBS News
Oliver is a veteran journalist with more than two decades of reporting and anchoring experience. For the past two years, she has been reporting on a wide range of breaking news stories around the country — and the world — as a correspondent for CBS Newspath, the 24/7 newsgathering service for CBS stations and broadcasters around the world. This year alone, she has reported for CBS News broadcasts on the number of deaths occurring at trampoline parks that go unreported; on the dive boat fire that killed nearly three dozen people and featured an interview with a man who lost five family members; on the devastating wildfire in Paradise, California. and on the opioid epidemic.
Reporting for Newspath from London, Oliver covered the London Bridge terrorist attack, and domestically she covered Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. She also reported heavily on the story of a Florida teenager who ran away with her soccer coach. After the teen was found, Oliver was the only network correspondent to sit down with her parents.
She first joined CBS News in 2006 as the overnight anchor of “Up to the Minute” and as a correspondent for “The Early Show.” In 2009 she was a correspondent and anchor for ABC News. She returned to CBS News as a freelancer in 2015, where she also anchored on CBSN, covering such breaking news as the San Bernardino shooting and the murders of WDBJ-TV anchor Allison Parker and her videographer Adam Ward.
Before CBS News, Oliver was the 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m. anchor at KGPE-TV, the CBS affiliate in Fresno, California. Prior to that, Oliver was an anchor reporter at WKBD/WWJ-TV, a CBS-owned operation in her hometown of Detroit. Earlier, she was a reporter in Seattle for Northwest Cable News. Oliver began her broadcasting career as an anchor-reporter at KCFW-TV in Kalispell, Montana.
Meg Oliver Salary
She earns an annual salary of approximately $ 50,000 – $ 110,500.
Meg Oliver Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of between $ 1 million – $ 5 million.
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