Richard Engel Biography
Richard Engel is an illustrious American journalist and author currently working for NBC News as the chief foreign correspondent since April 18, 2008. He joined the station in May 2003 serving as Middle East correspondent and Beirut bureau chief. Prior to joining NBC, he worked as a freelance journalist for ABC News in Baghdad.
Richard Engel Age
Richard Engel was born on 16th September 1973, in New York City, in the United States of America. He is 49 years old.
Richard Engel Height
Richard has a height of 5 feet 7 inches (Approx 1.70m ).
Richard Engel Family
Richard was born and brought up by his father and mother in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, in the United States. He is the son of Nina, an antique store owner, and Peter, a former Goldman Sachs financier. Moreover, Richard has an older brother called David who serves as a cardiologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Richard Engel Wife
He is blissfully hitched to his beautiful wife called Mary Forrest in May 2015. Together, they are proud parents of two lovely children Henry Thomas who was born in August 2019, and Theodore born in 2015. Unfortunately, Henry passed away on August 18, 2022, after suffering from a devastating diagnosis of Rett Syndrome.
Richard Engel Education
He obtained his college-prep school from the Riverdale Country School based in New York. Later on, Richard enrolled at Stanford University where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in international relations.
Richard Engel Salary
He pockets a decent salary of $89,560 annually. This is according to NBC News chief foreign correspondents’ salaries.
Richard Engel Net Worth
Richard has managed to garner decent possessions from his career and has an estimated net worth of $1.5 Million.
Richard Engel Career
He commenced his journalism career after graduating and moving to Cairo. Richard learned Egyptian Arabic and served for four years as a freelance reporter in Cairo. Later, he joined The World as a Middle East correspondent. The World is a joint production of WGBH, Public Radio International (PRI), and BBC World Service.
Subsequently, he joined USA Today as a reporter and later to Jane’s Defence Weekly, AFP, and Reuters. He later joined ABC News as their freelance journalist. Richard also worked for NBC as a primary Iraq correspondent. There, he covered the war between Hezbollah and Israel in Lebanon serving as a Beirut bureau chief and senior Middle East correspondent in 2006.
Furthermore, in April 2008, Richard was named Chief Foreign Correspondent of NBC News. Richard reported on the August presidential election in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2009, and also covered the Egyptian revolution in 2011. However, Richard was almost shot while reporting the Libyan Civil War. He also toured and reported on the city of Mogadishu, Somalia in the same year.
Moreover, Richard earned a News and Documentary Emmy Award nomination for his segment. Furthermore, he sometimes hosts MSNBC’s special series On Assignment with Richard Engel. In 2019, Richard’s show received the Peabody Award.
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