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What Is Paula Zahn's Net Worth and Salary?
Paula spent ten years working at stations across the country, including in Dallas, San Diego, Houston, Boston, and Los Angeles, before accepting an offer to join ABC News in 1987. Within a few months at ABC, Zahn was co-anchoring "World News This Morning" as well as providing news segments for "Good Morning America." In 1990, Paula moved to CBS News to co-anchor "CBS The Morning" until 1996, when she began working on the Saturday "CBS Evening News" and "48 Hours." Zahn also covered the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. In 1999, Paula moved to Fox News, where she worked for two years before joining CNN. Her first day of work at CNN was September 11, 2001.
Following her college graduation, Zahn ventured into television news broadcasting. For a decade, she worked at local stations across the country, including KFMB-TV in San Diego, KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, and WFAA-TV in Dallas.
Paula Zahn was born on February 24, 1956, in Omaha, Nebraska. Her father worked as an IBM sales executive, and her mother worked as a schoolteacher. She has three siblings, with whom she initially grew up in Canton, Ohio. The family then moved to Naperville, Illinois, where Zahn went to Washington Junior High School and Naperville Central High School. As a teenager, she competed in many beauty pageants, including Miss Teenage America in 1973. For her higher education, Paula attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, on a cello scholarship. She graduated in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
Zahn took her first job at a national news station, ABC News, in 1987. At first, she anchored "The Health Show," a weekend program focused on health and medicine. A few months after beginning that gig, she began co-anchoring "World News This Morning" and anchoring news segments on "Good Morning America." After about three years at ABC News, Paula joined CBS News in early 1990. There, she began by co-anchoring "CBS This Morning" with Harry Smith. Zahn later helped cover the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics; she also covered the infamous Waco siege in 1993. Both she and Smith left their posts in mid-1996. Subsequently, Paula became an anchor of the Saturday edition of "CBS Evening News" and contributed reports to other news programs as well, including "48 Hours" and "Public Eye withBryant Gumbel."
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At the peak of her time at Fox News, Paula was earning a salary of $600,000 per year. Fox News fired Paula in September 2006 upon learning that she had received an offer to join CNN at a salary of $2.1 million per year. Fox News at one point threatened to sue CNN, Paula, and her agent over an alleged breach of contract that they claimed precluded her from accepting new offers while she was under contract with Fox News, a contract that did not expire until February 2006.
Paula Zahn is an American journalist and newscaster who has a net worth of $18 million. Paula Zahn has worked at a number of different television stations throughout her career. She has served as an anchor at ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and Fox News, covering a wide range of stories on both morning and nightly news programs. Elsewhere on television, Zahn produces and hosts the true crime documentary series "On the Case with Paula Zahn," which debuted in 2009 on the Investigation Discovery channel.
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