Eleanor Clift Bio | Wiki
Eleanor Clift is an American author, political reporter, and television pundit. She curently write for The Daily Beast and she is in a panelist on The McLaughlin Group, where she is on the progressive side and hoping next election better than last. Also, Eleanor serves as a contributor to MSNBC.
Also, Eleanor serves as a blogger for The Daily Beast. The journalist is best known as a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. Apart from her journalistic works, Eleanor is also a board member at the IWMF (International Women’s Media Foundation).
Eleanor Clift Age
She was born on July 7, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. Eleanor is 82 years old.
Eleanor Clift Height
She is a woman of above-average stature. Eleanor stands at a height of 5 ft 6 in (Approx 1.68m).
Eleanor Clift Family
She was born to his father and mother on July 7, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. Eleanor’s parents were German immigrants from the island of Föhr in the North Sea and ran a deli in Sunnyside. She was raised in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens. She grew up as a Lutheran.
Eleanor Clift Husband
She married her ex-husband called William Brooks Clift, Jr., actor Montgomery Clift’s older brother in 1919. The couple welcomed three sons named Edward Montgomery, Woodbury Blair, and Robert Anderson prior to their divorce. The duo divorced in 1986. In September 1989, she married her second husband, a Washington columnist for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio called Tom Brazaitis. Tom died on March 30, 2005, from kidney cancer.
Eleanor Clift Education
Eleanor went to Hofstra University and Hunter College. She then launched her career in 1963 serving as a secretary at Newsweek. She became one of the first female reporters who earned an internship from the secretary pool. Eleanor later became a White House correspondent for Newsweek. Since 1976, Eleanor has covered every presidential campaign for the magazine.
Eleanor Clift Daily Beast
In 2008, Eleanor wrote Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics. The book intertwines the events of her own life as well as those of the nation concerning the Terri Schiavo case during a two-week period in March 2005. The book examines the way people in the USA deal with death, publicity, and personality.
At the 2012 Washington & Jefferson College Energy Summit, Eleanor was a keynote speaker, and the Washington & Jefferson College Energy Index was unveiled. She contributed to the 2019 anthology Our American Story. Eleanor addressed the possibility of a shared American narrative. She focused on America as a social movement, writing, “Social movements are America’s story, and they’re my story as a woman born in the middle of the last century whose life was made measurably better amid these broad strokes of history.”
Eleanor Clift Mclaughlin Group
She launched her broadcast career by serving as a Friday week-in-review panelist on WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C. on The Diane Rehm Show. Eleanor became very famous among her listeners due to her good-natured acceptance of ribbing from other panelists and callers to the program. She then became a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show called The McLaughlin Group.
The show has been compared to “a televised food fight”. Eleanor’s role as a talk show panelist has led to appearances in movies. She played a panelist in Rising Sun in 1993 and also appeared as herself in Dave in 1993, Independence Day in 1996, as well as Getting Away with Murder in 1996. On Saturday Night Live, Jan Hooks portrayed the journalist. In the 2009 film Watchmen, Eleanor was portrayed by actress Mary Ann Burger
Eleanor Clift Salary
Currently, she earns income from her role as a contributor to MSNBC. Eleanor has an average salary of $95,276 per year.
Eleanor Clift Net Worth
She has been to the journalism field and the media industry at large for the better part of her adulthood. Eleanor has accumulated an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Where Is Eleanor Clift
Currently, Eleanor serves as a contributor to MSNBC and also serves as a blogger for The Daily Beast.
Who Is Eleanor Clift
Eleanor is an American author, political reporter, and television pundit. She currently serves as a contributor to MSNBC. Also, Eleanor serves as a blogger for The Daily Beast.
How Old Is Eleanor Clift
Eleanor is an 82-year-old American author, political reporter, and television pundit who was born on July 7, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York.