Jodi-Kantor

Jodi Kantor Biography

Jodi Kantor is a prominent American media personality currently working for New York Times as an investigative reporter. Her work has covered technology, the workplace, and gender. Kantor has been serving as the journal’s Arts and Leisure editor.

She covered two presidential campaigns. She chronicled the transformation of former USA president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama into the President and First Lady of the United States.

Jodi Kantor Age

Jodi Kantor was born in New York City, United States of America on April 21, 1975. She is 47 years old.

Jodi Kantor Height

Kantor is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 4 inches ( Approx 1.6m).

Jodi Kantor Education

She received her high school diploma from Holmdel High School. From there, Jodi joined the University of Columbia and graduated in 1996. While there, Kantor was selected for and took part in the Dorot Fellowship in Israel from 1996 to 1997. There, Jodi studied Hebrew and worked with Israeli-Palestinian organizations in East Jerusalem. Later, She served as a New York City Urban Fellow before joining Harvard Law School for one semester.

Jodi Kantor Family

Jodi was born and raised to her caring and loving parents in a Jewish family in New York City, United States of America. Her grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Kantor relocated to Holmdel Township, New Jersey for her high school diploma. In February 2022, Her grandmother celebrated her 98th birthday.

Jodi Kantor Husband

She is a married woman who lives a happy married life with her beloved and caring husband called Ron Lieber. He is the “Your Money” columnist for The New York Times and also the author of The Opposite of Spoiled. The duo shares two daughters and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Jodi’s first born is 16 with the second born is six as of 2022.

Jodi Kantor Salary

Jodi receives an annual salary of $73,264 per year. This is according to New York Times anchors’ and reporters’ salaries.

Jodi Kantor Net Worth

Kantor has an approximate net worth of $1 million – $5 million.

Jodi Kantor Career

At the age of 28, She was brought on as editor of the Arts and Leisure section by Howell Raines. This came up after corresponding with New York Times columnist Frank Rich about how that journal could improve its arts coverage.

Kantor is thought to have been the youngest person ever to edit a section of the New York Times. Jodi made the section more visual, added new features, and more reporting. She as well recruited writers such as Jesse Green, Manohla Dargis, and Emily Nussbaum but under the guidance of Rich and others.

Also, Kantor broke the news of the initial strain between Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright. In the autumn of 2009, She co-authored the story of Michelle Obama’s slave roots and also authored a cover story in the New York Times magazine concerning the first marriage.

In this story, Jodi interviewed the president and first lady in the Oval Office. During the interview, Jodi asked them “How can you have an equal marriage when one person is President?”

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