Alex Wagner Biography
Alex Wagner (Alexandra Swe Wagner) an American journalist and author working as a the co-host of The Circus on Showtime and the author of FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging. She as well contributed to CBS News and a contributing editor at The Atlantic.
She worked as the anchor of the daytime program Now with Alex Wagner as of 2011 to 2015 on MSNBC. As of November 2016 to March 2018, she served as a TV co-anchor on CBS This Morning Saturday. She has also been a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine since April 2016.
Alex Wagner Age
Wagner was born on November 27, 1977, in Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alex Wagner Career
Wagner worked as the cultural correspondent for the Center for American Progress. As of 2003 to 2007, she served as an editor-in-chief of The Fader magazine, where she covered music and cultural movements from around the world. She as well worked as executive director of Not On Our Watch Project, an advocacy organization based on mass atrocities and human rights violations.
She later served as a White House correspondent for Politics Daily, a political news magazine under AOL News. She then relocated to The Huffington Post after having acquired by AOL. Working as an analyst on MSNBC, Wagner appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.
On November 14, 2011, she started hosting Now with Alex Wagner weekdays (originally at noon ET, but later at 4 PM ET). Back on July 30, 2015, MSNBC President Phil Griffin announced that the series had been canceled in an effort to transition the network’s daytime programming to more breaking news reporting and less political commentary and opinion.
The next day the program got aired its final episode. MSNBC then announced that Wagner would host a weekend program, but then later abandoned. Back on April 26, 2016, The Atlantic announced that she was leaving MSNBC to join the magazine as a senior editor.
She as well held a moderate events with AtlanticLIVE and help with developing video and TV projects with The Atlantic Studios. Back in November 2016, she replaced Vinita Nair on CBS This Morning Saturday and on17, 2018, she had her last appearance on CBS This Morning Saturday as she confirmed she would be leaving that show to co-host The Circus for Showtime, replacing Mark Halperin. She remains a correspondent for CBS News.
In 2020, she launched a podcast with Crooked Media and Cadence13 that addressed the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alex Wagner Net Worth
Wagner has an estimated net worth of $3 million
Alex Wagner Height and Weight
Wagner stands tall at a height of 1.68 meters and weighs 61 kilograms.
Alex Wagner Family
Wagner was born to to Tin Swe Thant an immigrant from Rangoon, Myanmar, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen before she attended Swarthmore College and Carl Wagner, from Lansing, Iowa, and he was of Luxembourgish and Irish descent.
Alex Wagner Husband and Sam Kass
Alex got married on Agust 30 2014 to Sam Kass a former white house nutrition policy advisor and assistant chef in a ceremony held at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, a restaurant in Pocantico Hills, New York. The duo is with two kids named Cy born in 2017 and Rafael born on April 16, 2019.
Alex Wagner Education
Wagner enrolled at Woodrow Wilson High school and then joined and later she graduated from Brown University in 1999 after having to study art history and literature.
Alex Wagner Book
Wagner back in April 2018 penned a book about her Burmese American ancestry was published.