Mark Strassmann Profile
Mark Strassmann is an American Emmy Award-winning news reporter and anchor working for CBS as a senior national correspondent based in Atlanta. He joined CBS News in the year 2001. Previously, Strassmann was the national reporter for NBC News Channel, the network’s partner news service, in its Atlanta headquarters (1997-2001).
Mark Strassmann Wiki
Full Name: Mark Strassmann
Profession: Reporter and Anchor
Nationality: American
Education: The University of Pennsylvania
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: April 1, 1957
Age / How Old is Mark Strassmann?: 67 years old as of 2024
Place of Birth: Kennesaw, Georgia
Country: United States Of America
Height / How tall is Mark Strassmann?: 5 feet 8 inches
Parents: Not Available
Wife: Linda Stouffer
Children: 2
Salary: $ 20,000 – $ 100,000
Net Worth: $1 million – $5 Million
Mark Strassmann Career
Strassmann serves at CBS as the Senior National Correspondent based in Atlanta. Previously, Strassmann was the national reporter for NBC News Channel, the network’s partner news service, in its Atlanta headquarters (1997-2001). He also contributed updates on “Today” and other NBC broadcasts. Previously, Strassmann was assigned to the Miami office of NBC News Channel (1995-97). During that time, he reported widely in the United States and abroad on big stories, including the Branch Davidian siege near Waco, Columbine school shootings, a total of eight Democratic and Republican National Conventions, Atlanta Olympic Games, Elian Gonzalez story, Pope’s trip to Cuba, Princess Diana’s funeral, D-50th Day’s anniversary, and the Bush-Gore Elec 2000 incident.
Previously, Strassmann was a reporter for WFLA-TV Tampa (1987-95), WTVT-TV Columbus, Ohio (1985-87), KMOL-TV San Antonio (1985), and WSAZ-TV Charleston, W. Va (1982-85). He started his career as an associate producer on WCVB-TV Boston (1980-82). Strassmann is the winner of more than 20 journalism awards, including the 2002 Emmy Award for CBS Television coverage of the D.C. Sniper tale, the Ohio State Award, and two Emmy Regional Awards.
CBS News
Strassmann serves at CBS as the Senior National Correspondent based in Atlanta. He covered big domestic and foreign stories, mostly for “CBS Evening News” and “Face the Nation.” Strassmann broke the story of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teenager who was gunned down in Sanford, Florida, by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
Strassmann has offered detailed coverage of the Zimmerman trial. In addition, he wrote on the BP oil spill for four months, Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the Terry Schiavo right-to-die story, church burning in the South, the shuttle scheme, the Colorado wildfires and Texas floods, the rise of the Hunley U-boat, the Worldcom accounting disaster, the aftermath of September 11 and the trials of elderly Ku Klux Klan members in the Birmingham Church blast. He has also made numerous visits to Iraq since 2003.
Strassmann was the Embedded Correspondent of CBS News to the 101st Airborne, reporting from the frontline for seven weeks as U.S. troops swept from Kuwait to Iraq. He was the first TV reporter in the world to break the news of the fragging incident inside that unit. Strassmann remained in the tent just behind the one in which two U.S. servicemen were killed in the attack and reported residing from Iraq immediately after the attack. He also covered the collapse of President Aristide of Haiti and other big foreign stories.
Mark Strassmann Personal Life, Family, Parents, and Wife
Strassmann was born on April 1, 1957, in Kennesaw, Georgia, United States (he is 67 years old as of 2024.) He celebrates his birthday on the 1st of April every year. Strassmann stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 8 inches.
Strassmann is a married man. He is married to Linda Stouffer, the WSB-TV Atlanta anchor. The couple has two children.
Mark Strassmann Salary and Net Worth
Being one of the top Senior National Correspondents for CBS, Strassmann earns an annual salary ranging from $ 20,000 – $ 100,000. Strassmann has an estimated net worth of between $1 million – $5 Million which he has earned through his successful career as a journalist.
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Mark Strassmann CBS News
At CBS News Strassmann works alongside;
- Jeffrey Pegues
- Jamie Yuccas
- Susan Zirinsky
- Mireya Villarreal
- Bill Whitaker
- Holly Williams
- Omar Villafranca
- Peter Van Sant
- Imtiaz Tyab
- Jonathan Vigliotti
- Tracy Smith
- Susan Spencer
- Bob Schieffer
- Serena Altschul