Deborah Feyerick Bio, Age, Family, Husband, Kids, CNN, Awards, Salary

Deborah Feyerick Biography

Deborah Rebecca Feyerick is an American media personality serving as a National Correspondent for CNN and CNN International. worked as a reporter and anchor for NY1 News, Time Warner’s 24-hour New York City news channel, and also worked as a special correspondent for Life magazine.

Deborah Feyerick Age

Feyerick was born on June 11964 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Deborah Feyerick Height

His height is unknown.

Deborah Feyerick Nationality

She is American.

Deborah Feyerick Education

Deborah attended Barnard College of Columbia University where she graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature.

Deborah Feyerick Parents

Feyerick is the daughter of Ada Feyerick and Philippe Feyerick. Her father is an investment counselor in Short Hills while her mother is a freelance editor and a writer who served as a picture editor of Horizon magazine (American Heritage Publishing Co. as well as the assistant to the foreign news editor of Look magazine. She is the author of the illustrated book, Genesis: World of Myths and Patriarchs, published by New York University Press and she is a member of the Authors Guild and the Overseas Press Club and a graduate of Douglass College (Rutgers University).

Deborah Feyerick Siblings

No information on whether she has any siblings is available.

Deborah Feyerick Husband

Deborah is married to Mark Kirsch, a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and also serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Friends of Hebrew University. He is a former attorney for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn and received his Juris Doctor from Yale University Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review, and his Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from Cornell University. He clerked for the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr. in New York.

He is the son of Dorothy and Donald Kirsch. His mother was the publisher and the editor of The New York Visitor’s Reporter, a former weekly newspaper in New York. His father is the chairman of the Wall Street Group Inc. Deborah and Mark exchanged their marriage vows in 1993  at Temple B’nai Abraham in Livingston, New Jersey in a ceremony officiated by Rabbi John Schecter.

Deborah Feyerick Children

Feyerick and her husband have two children together.

Deborah Feyerick CNN

Deborah joined CNN in May 2000 and currently serves as National Correspondent specializing in crime, terrorism and breaking news and has been on the frontlines of major news stories from the attack on the World Trade Center and killing of Osama Bin Laden to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary and Boston Marathon bombing. She reported exclusive, up-to-the-minute details of the manhunt and subsequent capture of the alleged Boston bomber. And she covered the devastation left by Super Storm Sandy.

Feyerick has covered the trials of a number of al Qaeda-linked operatives and has developed an extensive knowledge of terror groups. She has observed a number of terrorists up close including American Taliban John Walker Lindh, 20th hijacker Zacharias Moussaoui, the Underwear bomber, Times Square bomber, and the U.S. Embassy Bombers. She has received exclusive access to cover terrorism response-drills and fugitive raids and she’s trained in surviving war zones and chemical-biological-radiological attacks.

Her in-depth investigative reports have focused on sex trafficking of American children, drug-smuggling on the US/Mexico border, the Petit Home invasion, mold in military housing, and the capture and trial of Irish gangster James “Whitey” Bulger and have anchored numerous breaking news events including the sinking of Italy’s Costa Concordia, the hunt for the LAPD cop-killer, the Israeli-Gaza conflict, and the acquittal of Casey Anthony. She has interviewed 100’s of people during moments of triumph, tragedy & everyday life. Her notable interviews include Queen Sylvia of Sweden, a death row inmate, and rocker Ted Nugent.

Prior to joining CNN, was a reporter & anchor for NY1 News and traveled to France to report on the 50th anniversary of D-Day. She also worked as a special correspondent for Life magazine covering the Los Angeles riots & the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Deborah Feyerick Awards

She has received three Emmy nominations for her work on AIDS. The New York Association of Black Journalists honored Feyerick for her coverage of the foreclosure crisis. The American Muslim Union named her “Outstanding Journalist.” She also received a National Headliner Award as part of CNN’s 9/11 investigative team, Emmy nominations for her work both on 9/11 and the Christmas Day bomber, a Gracie Award for her feature on sperm donor-born children and Peabody Awards for team coverage of the 2008 presidential campaigns & Hurricane Katrina.

Deborah Feyerick Salary

Her salary is unknown.

Deborah Feyerick Net Worth

Her net worth is not known.

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