Who is Dana Bash
Dana Bash (birth name; Dana Ruth Schwartz) is a veteran political correspondent serving as CNN’s chief political correspondent and anchor of ‘Inside Politics’. In addition, she also hosts a series called “Badass Women of Washington” as well as co-anchors “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash”. In 2019 she won Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism.
She is one of the moderators of Thursday’s presidential debate, along with Jake Tapper, CNN’s chief Washington correspondent. The two co-anchors “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash”, which airs on Sunday morning and features interviews with top newsmakers on politics and policy. This is not her first debate as she was a a questioner at six of seven primary debates sponsored by CNN in 2016. She also moderated two CNN Democratic primary debates in 2020.
Dana Bash Age and Height
Dana is 53 years old, she was born on June 15, 1971 in New York, U.S. She stands at a height of 5 feet 2 inches tall.
Dana Bash Education
Bash graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in political communications from George Washington University.
Dana Bash Parents
Dana was born to Stu Schwartz (father) and Frances Weinman Schwartz(mother) and was brought up alongside her younger brother David Schwartz. He is the founder of PRESSURE, a creative creative digital agency that partners with businesses and organizations to concept and produce original branded video content. Her mother, Frances is an author.
Her father, Stu is a retired journalist having worked as a senior broadcast producer at ABC News for 41 years before retiring in 2009. He serves as an adjunct professor of broadcasting at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, a student advisor at the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and as a lecturer in China on American television news sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Dana Bash Jewish
Dana is Jewish who grew up in a Jewish household. She went to the Reform movement’s Camp Harlam in Kunkletown, Pennsylvania, and was bat mitzvahed at Temple Beth Or in New Jersey. She is a member of Temple Micah, a Reform synagogue in D.C.
Her grandparents escaped the Nazis. A week after her mother was born, her grandmother learned that her entire family had been killed by the Nazis. Her grandfather told her stories about how the gypsies helped them get across the mountains to Hungary.
In August 2022, she did a CNN documentary “Rising Hate: Antisemitism in America,” which entails her visit to various Jewish communities.
Is Dana Bash a Democrat or Republican
Dana has not made her political affiliation as journalist are supposed to be neutral in their reporting. However, CNN seem to lean more on the Democratic side.
Dana Bash Husband
Dana is not married but has previously been married and divorced twice. Her first marriage was to Jeremy Bash; they got married in 1998 and divorced in 2007.
Who is Jeremy Bash
Jeremy Bash is a lawyer, founder and managing director at Beacon Global Strategies LLC, which is a strategic advisory firm advising leading companies on national security issues. He is a recognized national security affairs experts, having served as National Security Analyst for NBC News and MSNBC .
He served as Chief of Staff to the Director of the CIA (2009-2011) and as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense (2011-2013). From August 2010 to May 2011, he was a member of the CIA’s senior management team overseeing the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden; He was also a member of the Obama-Biden transition team in 2008.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and government from Georgetown University. He later earned a Law Degree from Harvard Law School. he practiced law at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he specialized in litigation, high-profile investigations, and strategic counseling to CEOs of several publicly traded companies.
Dana Bash Ex-Husband – Dana Bash John King
In 2008, Dana got married to John King but they divorced in 2012. John is also a news anchor serving as CNN’s chief national correspondent, based in Washington, DC, he also anchors CNN’s roundtable political discussion program Inside Politics. He previously hosted John King, USA, which appeared weeknights at 7pm/ET on CNN before being canceled.
Dana Bash Child
Dana has a son known as Jonah Frank King born on July 29, 2011 from her marriage to John King.
Dana Bash Spencer Garrett – Dana Bash Boyfriend
Bash has been in a long term relationship with Spencer Garrett, an American actor best known for his roles in the films Air Force One (1997), 21 (2008), Public Enemies (2009), All the Way (2016), and The Front Runner (2018).
The couple first met in 2013 and were introduced by a mutual friend. At the time Garrett was out shopping with entrepreneur Susanna Quinn, who was also in Below The Beltway (2010) with Garrett, when he asked if she knew any single women.
Dana Bash CNN
Dana serves as CNN’s chief political correspondent based in Washington, D.C., serving as the network’s lead reporter covering campaigns and Congress. She regularly serves as a moderator for CNN’s political town hall specials and debates, including for CNN’s first debate of the 2020 election cycle in Detroit.
During CNN’s 2016 presidential primary debates she played a key role serving as a questioner in six of the network’s seven primetime primary debates on both sides of the aisle.
She also serves as a co-anchor on set in the CNN Election Center for all election night specials and is the primary fill-in anchor for Jake Tapper on CNN’s premier political show, State of the Union.
She is also instrumental to the network’s Capitol Hill coverage. In 2015, she broke news on live television that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy would not be running for Speaker of the House and also conducted Speaker John Boehner’s final interview on his last day in office. She also served as the lead correspondent covering former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 11-hour testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
She was part of the duo that won the Joan S. Barone Award in 2012 for excellence in congressional reporting on a STOCK Act loophole that could have allowed family members of lawmakers to profit from insider information on trades. She earned the prestigious Everett McKinley Dirksen for Distinguished Reporting of Congress Award from the National Press Foundation an unprecedented three times, most recently for her 2012 reporting on a STOCK Act loophole. Her reporting resulted in Congress passing legislation to close the loophole in August.
Prior to covering the congress, she served as a CNN’s White House correspondent from the nation’s capital and from various locations around the world during President George W. Bush’s administration. She reported on major stories such as Hurricane Katrina, the CIA leak investigation, and the capture of Saddam Hussein. She was instrumental in CNN’s 2006 mid-term election coverage and the 2004 presidential campaign.
Before her on-air position with the White House unit, she was the Capitol Hill producer for CNN, where she had primary editorial and newsgathering responsibility for the network’s coverage of the U.S. Senate. She covered stories such as the Republican dominance in the 2002 elections, the war on terrorism, campaign finance reform, the Florida recount and the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton.
In 2002, she broke the story of the government’s secret intercepts of Al Qaeda translations on Sept. 10, 2001, for which she received her first Everett McKinley Dirksen for Distinguished Reporting of Congress Award from the National Press Foundation.
She joined CNN as an editor in CNN’s Washington bureau and also served as a producer on several of the network’s public affairs shows, including Late Edition with Frank Sesno, Evans & Novak and Inside Politics Weekend with Wolf Blitzer, producing long-form live interviews with heads of state, lawmakers and other newsmakers.
Dana Bash Salary and Net worth
Dana earns an annual base salary of $700,000 and has an estimated net worth of $6 million.