Nina Totenberg Biography
Nina Totenberg is an eminent American award-winning currently working for National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. the United States as legal affairs correspondent. She mostly covers the activity and politics of the United States Supreme Court. Her reports are also regularly broadcasted on NPR’s news magazines such as All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.
Nina Totenberg Age
Nina Totenberg was born in Manhattan, New York, United States on January 14, 1944. She is 80 years old.
Nina Totenberg Height
Nina stands at the height of 5 feet 9 inches/1.75 m tall.
Nina Totenberg Education
Nina graduated from Boston University in 1962 with a journalism degree, but dropped out less than three years later because she “wasn’t doing well.” Nina began her journalism career shortly after dropping out of college at the Boston Record American
Nina Totenberg Family
Nina Totenberg was born and brought up in Manhattan, New York, by her beautiful parents. She is the proud daughter of Melanie Francis (Eisenberg) and Roman Totenberg. Melanie works in real estate, while Roman is a violinist and educator. Furthermore, her father was a Polish Jewish immigrant who lost numerous family members during the Holocaust.
Nina’s mother was also of German Jewish and Polish Jewish origin. She was from an upper-class family who had previously lived in San Francisco and New York. Nina Totenberg has two sisters, Amy Totenberg and Jill Totenberg. Amy was appointed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia by President Barack Obama in March 2010. Jill Foreman is a businesswoman and the wife of Brian Foreman.
Nina Totenberg Husband
Nina is married to H. David Reines, an Inova Fairfax Hospital trauma surgeon and Vice Chairman of Surgery. The couple married in 2000, and their ceremony was officiated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Before, she was married to U.S. Senator Floyd K. Haskell from 1979 until he died in 1998.Nina Totenberg Salary
Nina earns an annual salary of $197,650.
Nina Totenberg’s Net Worth
Nina’s estimated net worth is $19 million.
Nina Totenberg Career
Nina was hired by Bob Zelnick at National Public Radio in 1975 and has been there ever since. Nina is an NPR legal affairs journalist in Washington, D.C. Nina’s reports can be heard on NPR’s news magazines, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. In addition, from 1992 to 2013, she was a panelist on the syndicated TV political commentary show Inside Washington.
She also covers reporting primarily on the activity and politics of the United States Supreme Court. Furthermore, Nina received considerable acclaim for her coverage of the Supreme Court and legal concerns.
Nina’s groundbreaking article on the University of Oklahoma Law Professor Anita Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment by Judge Clarence Thomas prompted the Senate Judiciary Committee to reopen Clarence’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings to address Anita’s charges.
NPR received the renowned George Foster Peabody Award for its gavel-to-gavel coverage, which was led by Totenberg. Furthermore, coverage included both the original hearings and the investigation into Hill’s charges, as well as Nina’s findings and her interview with Hill.
The same story coverage also earned Nina additional awards, including the Long Island University George Polk Awards for Excellence in Journalism, the Carr Van Anda Award from the Scripps School of Journalism, the George Polk Awards for Excellence in Journalism, and for Excellence in Washington-based nation affairs and public policy reporting she earned the prestigious Joan S. Barone Award.
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