Rita Braver, a well-known Sunday Morning national correspondent, covers topics ranging from art and entertainment to politics and policy. Rita Braver has received several Emmy awards for her outstanding work.
Rita Braver’s personal life is also blessed with happiness, as she has a supportive husband with whom she has been in a relationship for nearly half a century.
Rita Braver’s Biography, Career, and Net Worth
Rita Braver, 70, was born to a Jewish family in April 1948 and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her birthday information is missing.
Rita Braver has two sisters, Bettie Braver Sugar and Sharon Braver Cohen, and has brown hair with gray highlights. Her father died when she was very young due to a health problem. Rita earned a degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Rita Braver began her broadcasting career as a “copy girl” for WWL TV, New Orleans’ CBS affiliate.
Later, in 1972, she grew up at CBS News, where she worked as a news desk editor. Rita worked as a CBS News producer for nearly eleven years, reporting for “CBS Evening News,” “48 Hours,” “Face The Nation,” “CBS News This Morning,” “Street Stories,” and “Public Eye.”
Rita Braver, who is quite tall, also served as CBS News’ law correspondent from 1983 to 1993. She covered the Iran Contra case, including the trials of former National Security Council officials Oliver North and former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry for drug charges.
She is the one who broke the story of the Walker family spy ring and convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.
Rita then worked as CBS News’ Chief White House Correspondent for four years, from 1993 to 1997, covering a wide range of domestic and international issues.
Braver has five Emmy Awards, including one for coverage of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination and another for investigative reporting.
She has also received the Joan Barone Award, the National Association of Women Legislators’ Media Award, and a Star Award from American Women in Radio and Television in 1998. The National Mother’s Day Committee also named her an Outstanding Mother.
As a senior correspondent with all those honors and work experience, she could earn a good living from her job. However, the specifics of her net worth have yet to be revealed. However, Rita and his husband purchased a $2.52 million home in East Hampton in 2017.
Relationship Status: Single?
Rita Braver married Washington D.C. lawyer Robert B. Barnett on April 10, 1972 in New Orleans. Barnett was offered a Supreme Court clerkship with Justice Byron R. White after their marriage, so they relocated to Washington, D.C. During their college years, the couple first met.
After six years of marriage, the couple’s family of two blossomed into a complete family with the birth of their first daughter, Meredith Barnett, in 1978. Meredith is the founder and CEO of StoreAdore.com in New York, an Internet guide to boutiques and specialty stores across the country. Meredith earned a magna cum laude from Brown and an M.B.A. from Harvard. On April 5, 2008, Meredith married Daniel Penn.
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