Ashleigh Banfield
Banfield is a Canadian-American journalist and host of Banfield on News Nation. She formerly hosted Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield and Early Start on CNN. She as well is a freelance associate producer for ABC’s World News Tonight during her time of employment at CICT-TV.
Ashleigh Banfield Age
Banfield was born on December 29th 1967 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada she will be 56 years old by 2023, . She celebrates her birthday on every 29th of December every year.
Ashleigh Banfield Height
Ashleigh is 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Ashleigh Banfield Family
She was born and raised in America by her loving parents. However, she has not reviled more information on her family or siblings. Banfield went to Balmoral Hall School, a private university preparatory school in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She also went to Queen’s University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.
Ashleigh Banfield Husband
She is married to her husband, Chris Haynor. It is not known whether their marriage has been fruitful by now.
Ashleigh Banfield First Marriage
Her first marriage was with Howard Gould. Their wedding took place on a wooden yacht at the Royal Lake of the Woods Yacht Club in Canada. Their marriage, was blessed with two sons. However, they later divorced.
Ashleigh Banfield Wikipedia
She was hired by national cable network MSNBC early 2000 after receiving an Emmy award for her reporting at Dallas, TX broadcast station KDFW-TV. She “fit nicely with MSNBC’s taking up as the news network of choice for younger viewers,” as far as the New York Times is concerned. She as well hosted MSNBC Investigates, worked at NBC News, and joined Gina Gaston and Mika Brzezinski on HomePage.
She voiced her concerns about media coverage of the Iraq war in an April 2003 Landon Lecture Series speech at Kansas State University. She was against “cable news operators who put themselves in the American flag and chase after a specific target demographic,” citing Fox News Channel as an example. According to the New York Times, her talk enraged MSNBC’s taking charge NBC management, who refuted her claims and reduced her profile.
Ashleigh Banfield Political Affiliation
She is ranked at 128 Mansfield Avenue Darien, Ct 06820, and is associated with the Democratic Party.
Ashleigh Banfield Katie Couric
Couric agrees in her book that she saw the need to “protect my turf” on the morning news show, when she worked from 1991 to 2006, and that she had known all a long that “someone younger and more cuter was always around the corner,” refering to Banfield, 53, as an example.
Ashleigh Banfield Salary
Banfield gets a yearly salary of $125,000-$150,000 from her profession as a news journalist. Her net worth is estimated at $3 million as of 2024.