Margaret Brennan Departure From The CBS News Isn’t Confirmed
An American journalist, Margaret Brennan, is in the spotlight due to a conflict of interest while moderating the 2024 United States vice presidential debate.
She moderates Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan on CBS News, and netizens believe she violated network rules and demand she be fired.
Highlights
- Margaret Brennan is a prominent figure at CBS News, and her fire news only surfaced on Twitter.
- She moderated a 2024 United States vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance for the first time.
- Her estimated net worth is $5 million, and she earns about $300,000 annually as a moderator of Face the Nation for the CBC News network.
Margaret began her career by joining CNBC in 2002 as a producer for prominent financial journalist Louis Rukeyser.
She also worked as a producer on Street Signs with Ron Insana.
Later, she covered the financial crisis as a correspondent, focusing on consumer issues. She interviewed former Walmart CEO Lee Scott and Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen.
Margaret joined Bloomberg Television on June 24, 2009, but left in July 2012 to join CBS News, which is based in Washington.
On February 22, 2018, she became the 10th moderator and the second woman to moderate CBS’s Sunday morning political interview program Face the Nation.
Margaret Brennan Fired News Only Surfaced on Twitter
Margaret Brennan is a prominent figure at CBS News, and there has been no official confirmation that she has left the network.
She is CBS’s chief foreign affairs correspondent and a fill-in and substitute anchor for Evening News.
@margbrennan insufferable/biased/intolerant/partisan
Her low emotional intelligence makes her unfit to be a moderator. She couldn’t control herself from being partisan.
She was not seen or heard from for about ten minutes after this. Pretty sure she was pulled aside and got… pic.twitter.com/eJg4Q9dXXY
— adult human female ✝️ (@ImDrawingablank) October 2, 2024
Margaret recently moderated a debate between Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio on October 1, 2024.
It was her first time moderating a general election vice presidential debate, even though she has been at the forefront of political news coverage.
Netizens believed she violated CBS Network’s rules and demanded she be fired. Ronald Buxton mentioned,
ABC News: “We were the most biased debate moderators in the history of TV.”
CBS News: “Hold my beer!”
Some believed she ended her devious journalism career moderating the vice presidential general election debate.
CBS News cut off the microphones of the vice presidential candidates during their debate when the Republican objected to moderator Margaret Brennan’s attempt to correct something regarding immigration.
Moreover, she has held multiple positions at CBS News, including State Department and White House correspondent.
She interviewed world leaders, including Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, Mike Johnson, and Nancy Pelosi.
Margaret Brennan Has An Estimated Net Worth Of $5 Million As of 2024
Margaret Brennan began her business venture after graduating from the University of Virginia in 2002 with the highest distinction in Bachelor of Arts.
She is an Emmy Award-winning journalist for Outstanding News Special for the Parkland High School shooting coverage.
Happy 248th birthday @USMC ! pic.twitter.com/U2SVc7Q9sZ
— Margaret Brennan (@margbrennan) November 10, 2023
Margaret earns a decent fortune from her journalism career.
She has only progressed in her career path and lived a luxurious lifestyle alongside her Syrian-American attorney husband, Yado Yakub.
Some sources have claimed that she earned around $300,000 annually as a moderator of Face the Nation for the CBC News network.
Moreover, NewsBios/TJFR Group named her one of the top journalists under 30 in 2003, and she received the Fulbright Award for international understanding in 2010.
Irish America magazine named her one of the top Irish Americans in the media business.
Margaret won a Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council in 2020 and received first place in the National Headliner Awards in 2021 for the COVID-19 outbreak in “Facing the Pandemic.”
Additional Information
- Margaret Brennan, the daughter of Edward Brennan and Jane Brennan, was born on March 26, 1980, in Stamford, Connecticut.
- In 2015, she received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Niagara University for her work in international affairs.
- She married Yado Yakub on April 11, 2015, and they have two children, Eamon Brennan Yakub and Malek Murphy Yakub.
