Paula Zahn Biography
Paula Zahn born Paula Ann Zahn is an American journalist and newscaster who is currently the produces and the host of the true-crime documentary series On the Case with Paula Zahn on the Investigation Discovery channel.
Zahn worked at local stations across the country for the next 10 years, including WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, KFMB-TV in San Diego, California, KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas, WHDH-TV (then WNEV) in Boston, Massachusetts, and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, California.
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Paula Zahn Age
Zahn was born on 24 February 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. She is 67 years old as of 2023.
Paula Zahn Family
She is the daughter of Norm Zahn, an IBM sales executive, and Betty Zahn, a schoolteacher, and artist.
Paula Zahn Husband
She was married to Richard Cohen, a Jewish who is a New York City real estate developer. The couple married in 1987 and divorced in 2007. They have three children; Two sons Jared Brandon Cohen born on 16 October 1993, Austin Bryce Cohen born on 1 January 1997, and a daughter Haley Cohen born in 1990.
When the nest of the well-publicized red-tailed hawk Pale Male was removed from their Manhattan co-op home, the couple was in the news in 2004. The elimination was endorsed by Cohen, president of the co-op board; Zahn spoke in 2001 approvingly of the hawk and its habit of feeding on rats and pigeons.
In April 2007, after 20 years of marriage, Zahn revealed she was divorcing Cohen. The news was scandalized in tabloid gossip media where the divorce was reported to have been the result of an affair with Paul Fribourg that Zahn was rumored to have had. However, these reports and accusations were never substantiated beyond tabloid media accounts. Zahn filed a lawsuit against Cohen the same year, arguing that he had mismanaged the value of her career earnings for 20 years. The New York State court dismissed the complaint, ruling that it “is not a business issue, but rather a marital dispute masquerading as a commercial dispute.
Paula Zahn Education
She attended Naperville Washington Junior High School and later graduated in 1974 from Naperville Central High School. Zahn also competed in several beauty pageants, reaching the 1973 Miss Teenage America Pageant semi-finals. She pursued her education on a cello scholarship at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and gained first-hand knowledge of the news industry by working at WBBM-TV in Chicago, Illinois, as an intern. She graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1978.
Paula Zahn Net Worth
Zahn has an estimated net worth of $18 million. This includes her recorded assets.
Paula Zahn Cancer
Zahn has been a respected advocate for research on cancer and for patients and their families. She first faced the diagnosis of her father with advanced lymphoma, then the diagnosis of her mother’s breast cancer three weeks later. Shortly after her mother’s diagnosis came the devastating news that Sherrie, the wife of her brother Steve, had Stage III breast cancer, just 34 at the time. And it was only a short time later that her mother’s sister, Aunt Annie Paula, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. In the period of 14 months, four active cancer cases were handled by the family.
Paula Zahn CBS
Zahn was offered a position at CBS News in 1990, and she started co-anchoring CBS This Morning with Harry Smith on February 26, 1990. During this time, with Tim McCarver and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, she helped cover the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, as well as covering the Waco siege. After changes were made to the morning show in 1996, both she and Smith quit, with their last day being on June 14, 1996. Zahn then went on to serve as the anchor of the CBS Evening News Saturday version, replacing Dan Quite throughout the week, and contributing stories to 48 Hours, Bryant Gumbel’s Public Eye, and Sunday Morning’s CBS News.
Paula Zahn CNN
On September 11, 2001, Zahn began her work at CNN, joining anchor Aaron Brown in the coverage of the terrorist attacks of that day as her response to the events she experienced. She started a routine morning news shift the next day, although she was not expected to appear on a CNN show, which was still in production. She debuted her CNN morning news show, American Morning with Paula Zahn, in January.
Zahn moved back to prime time in 2003 during the Iraq War, hosting a two-hour program called Live from the Headlines that provided continuous coverage of the war and other developments during the Iraq War. By early summer, Anderson Cooper took over the first of the two hours, and by September, her film, Paula Zahn Now, had its premiere.
She announced her CNN resignation on July 24, 2007. Paula Zahn Now’s last broadcast aired on August 2, 2007. The announcement came less than a day after CNN hired Campbell Brown, Weekend Today’s former co-host. Initially, under the title Out in the Open, guest hosts effectively continued Zahn’s show. This was later replaced by coverage of political campaigns and eventually Brown’s program, Campbell Brown: No Prejudice, No Bull.
Paula Zahn Show(Investigation Discovery Paula Zahn)
To unravel criminal cases, Zahn steps out of the studio and into the field, monitoring the drama of each story by sharing the perspectives of those closest to the case, including law enforcement officers, the families of the victims and the imprisoned, attorneys on both sides, and first-time TV interviews with convicted killers.