Top 10 Modern News Anchors, Talk Show Hosts, Fashion Icons and Chefs

Craig Melvin was born on 20 May 1979 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin, The Event (2010) and Dig (2015). He has been married to Lindsay Czarniak since 15 October 2011. They have two children.

Bobby Flay was born on 10 December 1964 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Bobby Flay's Barbecue Addiction (2011), Boy Meets Grill with Bobby Flay (2002) and Kelsey's Homemade (2015).

Ayman Mohyeldin is known for CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip (2001), Ship at War: Inside the Carrier Stennis (2002) and Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006). He has been married to Kenza Fourati since 26 April 2016. They have one child.

Ryan Smith is known for The Love 4 Constructing Your Boss (2018), Good Morning America (1975) and Free Enterprise (2021).

Rachel Maddow was born on 1 April 1973 in Castro Valley, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Rachel Maddow Show (2008), The Ides of March (2011) and Red, White & Royal Blue (2023). She is married to Susan Mikula.

Barbara Walters was born on 25 September 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was a producer and writer, known for The Barbara Walters Summer Special (1976), The View (1997) and 20/20 (1978). She was married to Merv Adelson, Lee Guber and Robert Henry Katz. She died on 30 December 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

Keith Morrison was born in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan in the 1947. He attended the University of Saskatchewan where he earned his bachelor's degree in history in 1966. Keith started his career in journalism in 1966 as a reporter for The Star Phoenix in Saskatoon.

From there held a number of television anchor and reporting positions across Canada at CFTO-TV, Toronto; CHAN-TV (now BCTV), Vancouver; and CFQC, Saskatoon. He was also news anchor for "Canada A.M.," and a national news-and-information television program produced by CTV. From December 1973 to January 1975. Keith held several positions as a mid-Canada correspondent for CTV News from January 1975 to February 1976. He then served as anchor and reporter for CTV News from February 1976 to July 1979, became national affairs correspondent and anchor for CTV News from July 1979 to June 1982.

Morrison held a variety of correspondent and anchor positions with the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) from 1982 to 1986, and was a correspondent and anchor for CBC's "The Journal," a nightly news and current affairs program from November 1984 to July 1985. He was instrumental in the development of "Midday," the network's first daytime news and interview program.

In 1986 Keith was hired as a NBC News Correspondent, based in Los Angeles. Keith has covered a wide range of breaking news stories on the West Coast and in Asia. Morrison was reporting from China in May and June 1989 when the student rebellion in Beijing and the Chinese military reaction occurred.

He is married to Suzanne Perry Morrison, a writer, consultant and, political fundraiser who was also press secretary to then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Through marriage, he became stepfather to "Friends" star Matthew Perry.

Josh Mankiewicz was born on 27 August 1955 in Berkeley, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Dateline NBC (1992), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000) and Dateline Originals (2023). He has been married to Ahn Tu Dang since 16 April 2016.

Dennis Murphy is known for Dateline NBC (1992), NBC News Special: Terror in Boston (2013) and Dateline on OWN (2012). He has been married to Marilyn Sibyl Holm since 16 July 1977.

Jackie Nespral was born in Miami, Florida, USA. She is known for Shallow Grave (1987), The Chuck ToddCast: Meet the Press (2016) and WTVJ: 70 years of making a difference (2019).

Dave Malkoff is a national correspondent with the CBS News Innovation Lab, where his work appears across all CBS News and Station platforms. He has covered some of the biggest global stories and natural disasters of our time, interviewed world leaders, covered the California wildfires, reported from the Arctic to investigate the consequences of melting glaciers on U.S. sea levels, and ventured into secure spaceship factories where scientists were building the Webb Space Telescope, The SpaceX Dragon and GPS II-F satellites before their launches. His reporting has earned him six Emmy Awards. Before joining CBS News, Malkoff was the chief environmental correspondent and host of The Weather Channel's docuseries, "Weather Channel Explores." His reporting on climate change has taken him to 13 countries spanning four continents.

Vinita Nair is known for CBS Evening News Saturday (1966), CBS Mornings (2012) and ABC World News Now (1994). She has been married to Osman Elahi Nawaz since 10 October 2009.

Bill Neely was born on 21 May 1959 in Glengormley, Northern Ireland. He is married to Marion Kerr. They have two children.

Author / sportswriter / radio commentator / TV pundit Keith Olbermann's first book, "The Major League Coaches", was published when he was 14. He began his career as a play-by-play announcer for WHTR while he was still in high school. Beginning college at age 16, he graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in communications arts from Cornell University at age 20.

He began his career at UPI, and then RKO Radio and New York's WNEW until CNN found him in 1981. In 1984, he became a sports anchor in Boston at WCVB-TV, then went to Los Angeles for KTLA-TV and KCBS-TV. While in California, he received 11 Golden Mike Awards for Best Sportscaster and Best Sportscast, and was voted Sportscaster of the Year three times.

In 1992, he was part of the team that launched ESPN Radio, and then began what was to become his "signature" post at ESPN SportsCenter. He and Dan Patrick worked together until 1997. Keith then went to MSNBC, where he hosted "The Big Show with Keith Olbermann" and "White House in Crisis". However, he despised doing 24-hour-a-day coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton, and his contract was bought out by Fox to become anchor and executive producer of "The Keith Olbermann Evening News" on Fox Sports Net on Sunday nights. He was also host of Fox's Saturday pregame baseball studio show.

In 2001, he left Fox for "other opportunities", and kept a low profile at ABC Radio. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on New York's World Trade Center affected him profoundly, saying that they "sobered me up" -- he knew five people who died in attacks. He won an 'Edward R. Murrow' Award for reporting from the site for 40 days for his ABC Radio show.

After September 11, and while contributing to Salon.com, he published a profound, "Mea Culpa", to ESPN and fellow workers and addressed the burned bridges in his career. He attributed most of his "outbursts" to feelings of "insecurity" and "fear of being blamed". What September 11 also taught him was "If you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were at 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room".

He is an avid baseball historian and has a collection of at least 35,000 baseball cards. He's received numerous distinguished awards in radio and television broadcasting, including the 1995 Cable Ace Award for Best Sportscaster, 11 Golden Mike Awards for excellence in television and radio, and four Sports Emmy Awards.

He has written for dozens of publications, including The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Time, Sports Illustrated and Playboy, and authored a book with his "tag-team partner", Dan Patrick, entitled "The Big Show: A Tribute to ESPN's SportsCenter". He has his own political commentary show, Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann (2003), on MSNBC--one of the highest-rated shows on that network--and hosted that network's coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Soledad O'Brien is the anchor for CNN morning show Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien and special correspondent for CNN/U.S. Since joining the network in 2003, O'Brien has reported breaking news from around the globe and has produced award-winning, record-breaking and critically acclaimed documentaries on the most important stories facing the world today. She also covers political news as part of CNN's "Best Political Team on Television." In 2010, she wrote a critically-acclaimed memoir The Next Big Story: My Journey through the Land of Possibilities, which chronicles her biggest reporting moments and how her upbringing and background have influenced these experiences.

O'Brien's most recent documentaries include Black in America: The New Promised Land - Silicon Valley, a profile of an accelerator program developed to diversify the technology industry by helping African-American digital entrepreneurs secure funding for their ventures; Latino in America 2: In Her Corner, the story of female flyweight fighter and U.S. Olympic hopeful Marlen Esparza; Beyond Bravery: The Women of 9/11, an investigation into the lives of female rescue workers who were the first to respond to the World Trade Center terrorist attacks; Don't Fail Me: Education in America, a look at the crisis in public education where American kids are not learning the skills necessary to compete; The Women Who Would be Queen, a portrayal of the future King and Queen's friendship-turned-romance and very modern royal marriage; Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door, a report on religious freedom protections; Pictures Don't Lie, the story of the secret life of Civil Rights photographer Ernest Withers as a paid FBI informant; Almighty Debt, a Black in America special that explores the role of the black church in helping African Americans survive the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression; Rescued, a look at Haiti's remarkable children before, during and after the devastating earthquake; and Gary and Tony Have a Baby, the story of two gay men and their struggle to have a baby that has a biological and legal connection to both of them.

In 2009, Soledad reported for Latino in America, a wide-ranging look at Latinos living in this country; how they're reshaping America and how America is reshaping them. Prior, O'Brien reported for Black in America 2, a four-hour documentary focusing on successful community leaders who are improving the lives of African-Americans. O'Brien's reporting for Black in America in 2008 revealed the state of Black America 40 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She has also reported for the CNN documentary Words That Changed a Nation, featuring a never-before-seen look at Dr. King's private writings and notes, and investigated his assassination in Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination. Her Children of the Storm project and One Crime at a Time documentary demonstrate O'Brien's continued commitment to covering stories out of New Orleans.

O'Brien joined CNN as the co-anchor of the network's flagship morning program, American Morning, and distinguished herself by reporting from the scene on the transformational stories that broke on her watch. For CNN's Katrina coverage, O'Brien's reports on the storm's impact included an in-depth interview with former FEMA chief Michael Brown. She also covered the Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011, London terrorism attacks in July 2005, and in December 2004, she was among a handful of CNN anchors sent to Thailand to cover the disaster and aftermath of the tsunami.

In 2011, Soledad won her first Emmy for Crisis in Haiti (Anderson Cooper 360) in the category of Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story - Long Form. O'Brien was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its BP oil spill and Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the Southeast Asia tsunami. The National Association of Black Journalists named O'Brien the Journalist of the Year and Edward R Murrow Awards lauded her with the RTDNA/UNITY award for Latino in America in 2010. She received the 2009 Medallion of Excellence for Leadership and Community Service Award from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. In 2008, she was the first recipient of the Soledad O'Brien Freedom's Voice Award from the Morehouse School of Medicine for being a catalyst for social change and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Goodermote Humanitarian Award for her efforts while reporting on the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami. Her numerous other awards include a Gracie Allen Award in 2007 for her reporting from Cyprus on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict as well as her reports from the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. The NAACP honored her with its President's Award in 2007 for her humanitarian efforts and journalistic excellence.

O'Brien came to CNN from NBC News where she anchored the network's Weekend Today since July 1999. Prior, O'Brien anchored MSNBC's award-winning technology program The Site. O'Brien joined NBC News in 1991 and was based in New York as a field producer for Nightly News and TODAY. Before her time at NBC, she served three years as a local reporter and bureau chief for the NBC affiliate KRON in San Francisco. She began her career as an associate producer and news writer at the then-NBC affiliate WBZ-TV in Boston. Soledad O'Brien is a graduate of Harvard University and currently lives with her husband and four children in Manhattan.

Charles Osgood was born on 8 January 1933 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Horton Hears a Who! (2008), CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (1979) and A Science Odyssey (1998). He was married to Jean Crafton and Theresa Audette. He died on 23 January 2024 in Saddle River, New Jersey, USA.

Bill Plante was born on 14 January 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is known for The CBS Evening News (1941), Inside Hurricane Katrina Update (2006) and Jim and Sarah Brady: A Tribute (2015). He was married to Robin Smith and Barbara Anne (Barnes) Ortieg. He died on 28 September 2022 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

Carl Quintanilla is known for NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas (1970), CNBC Documentaries (2003) and Dateline NBC (1992). He has been married to Judy Chung since 17 June 2005. They have two children.

Al Roker was born on 20 August 1954 in Queens, New York, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Robots (2005), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016). He has been married to Deborah Roberts since 16 September 1995. They have two children. He was previously married to Alice Bell.

Joy Reid is a national correspondent for MSNBC and the author of the book "Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide."(September 2015)

From February 2013-February 2014, Reid was the host of MSNBC's "The Reid Report," a daily program that offered Reid's distinctive analysis and insight on the day's news. Before that, Reid was the Managing Editor of theGrio.com, a daily online news and opinion platform devoted to delivering stories and perspectives that reflect and affect African-American audiences.

Reid joined theGrio.com in July 2011 with experience as a freelance columnist for the Miami Herald and as editor of the political blog The Reid Report. She is a former talk radio producer and host for Radio One, and previously served as an online news editor for the NBC affiliate WTVJ in Miramar, FL.

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Reid served as the Florida deputy communications director for the 527 "America Coming Together" initiative, and was a press aide in the final stretch of President Barack Obama's Florida campaign in 2008. Reid's columns and articles have appeared in the Miami Herald, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, South Florida Times and Salon.com. She is currently producing a documentary, "The Fight Years"-which takes a look into the sport of boxing during the 1950s and 1960s in Miami.

Reid graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a concentration in film, and is a 2003 Knight Center for Specialized Journalism fellow. She currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband and family.

Stephanie Ruhle was born on 24 December 1975 in Park Ridge, New Jersey, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle, Graves (2016) and MSNBC Reports Stephanie Ruhle Reports (2021). She has been married to Andrew Hubbard since 21 September 2002. They have three children.

Morgan Radford has been married to David Williams since 8 January 2022.

Frances Rivera was born on 4 September 1970 in the Philippines.

Jill Rappaport was born on 27 September 1964 in Jericho, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for American Dreams (2002), Living Ageless and Bold (2023) and Tales in Flight (2014).