Know About Fredricka Whitfield; Husband, Children, Family, Cnn, Facts
Sarah Jenkins
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Celebs Podium It Has Been More Than 30 Year's of Fredricka Whitfield’s Career in Broadcast Journalism. Apart from Career, the Cnn Journalist Is Relishing the...
It has been more than 30 years of Fredricka Whitfield’s career in broadcast journalism. Apart from career, the CNN journalist is relishing the family life with her husband and three children.
Fredricka Whitfield is an award-winning American journalist, who serves as an anchor on CNN. Based in the network’s world headquarters in Atlanta, she anchors the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom.
Fredricka Whitfield Bio; Parents, Family
Fredricka was born on 31 May 1965 in Maryland, United States. She is one of the three children of African-American athlete Mal Whitfield and his second wife Nola Whitfield.
Her father, nicknamed “Marvelous Mal” was a five-time Olympic medalist. He became the Olympic champion in the 800 meters at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics and was a member of the 1948 gold medal team in the 4 × 400 meters relay.
Besides, he served for more than 30 years as a U.S. State Department foreign service officer and Ambassador of Sport.
Fredricka Whitfield pictured with her late father Mal Whitfield and mother Nola Whitfield (Picture: CNN)
Whitfield has two elder siblings; a brother named Malvin Lonnie Whitfield and a sister, Nyna Konishi. Meanwhile, she has a half-brother named Ed Wright from her father’s relationship. Ed is a nationally ranked high jumper of Berkeley, California. Because of her father’s work, she also lived in Somalia during her childhood with her parents and siblings.
Fredricka attended Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, Maryland. After graduation in 1983, she went to Howard University’s School of Communications. There, she received her bachelor’s degree in Journalism at the age of 22.
Whitfield began her journalism career from a dual MyNetworkTV/ABC-affiliated WCIV in Charleston, South Carolina. Meanwhile, she worked as a general assignment reporter at KTVT-TV in Dallas and at WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut.
Afterward, she joined NBC News and worked as a correspondent. From 1995 to 2001, she served as the Atlanta-based correspondent for NBC Nightly News. She also reported for the programs such as NBC The Today Show and Dateline NBC.
Fredricka Whitfield joined CNN from NBC News in 2002 (Picture: CNN)
In 2002, she joined CNN and began to cover numerous breaking stories also becoming the first anchor to break the news of the death of the former American President Ronald Reagan. Likewise, her coverage includes the Afghanistan War and start of the second Iraq War, the 2008 Inauguration of President Barack Obama, the Atlanta, Beijing, and London Olympic Games, and so on. As of now, she anchors the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom, based on its headquarters in Atlanta.
Sarah Jenkins is a veteran tech journalist with over 12 years of experience covering artificial intelligence, mobile innovations, and digital ethics. Her insights have appeared in leading technology publications worldwide.
