Jamie Gangel

Television

Birth Year 1955

Birthplace New York City, New York, U.S.

Age 69 years old

Nationality United States

#41106 Most Popular

1955

Jamie Sue Gangel (born 1955) is an American television news reporter working as a CNN special correspondent.

1976

She attended Harvard University in 1976, where she studied international economics.

1977

Gangel earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in 1977.

1978

Gangel began her career in broadcast journalism in 1978 as an assignment editor for WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. At the same time, she worked for all-news radio station WTOP-AM, the CBS affiliate in Washington.

1982

In 1982, she joined television station WPLG-TV in Miami, Florida as a general assignment reporter and substitute anchor.

1983

Since joining NBC News in 1983 as a general assignment and political correspondent based in Washington, DC, Gangel had been a frequent contributor to NBC Nightly News, Today, Dateline NBC and MSNBC.

Gangel was born and raised in New York City, the daughter of Richard I. Gangel and Phyllis Gangel-Jacob.

Her parents divorced eleven months after her birth.

Her mother is a retired justice of the New York Supreme Court.

Gangel was raised in the Jewish faith.

1992

She became a national correspondent for the NBC News' Today show in February 1992.

2001

Gangel broadcast some of the first reports of the September 11, 2001 attacks from New York, including confirming that the Pentagon had been hit by a plane and that the CIA offices had been evacuated.

Her exclusive interviews have included Frank Zappa and former Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

2015

On August 24, 2015, Gangel began a new phase of her career as a Special Correspondent for CNN.

Gangel is married to New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva and they have two children, twins Lily and Nicholas.

The family resides in Florida.

Silva converted to Judaism as an adult.

Gangel has won numerous awards for reporting, including the