Michele Norris

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michele Norris
Occupation	Radio Personality
Date Of Birth	Sep 7, 1961(1961-09-07)
Age	63
Birthplace	Minneapolis
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Michele Norris Biography

Michele Norris is one of the most popular and richest Radio Personality who was born on September 7, 1961 in Minneapolis, United States. Michele L. Norris (/ˈ m iː ʃ ɛ l ˈ n ɔːr ɪ s / MEE -shel NOR -iss; born September 7, 1961) is an American journalist, currently working as an opinion columnist with The Washington Post.

From 2002 until 2011, she was co-host of the National Public Radio (NPR) evening news program All Things Considered. Norris was the first African- American female host for National Public Radio (NPR).

Norris announced on October 24, 2011, that she would temporarily step down from her All Things Considered hosting duties and refrain from involvement in any NPR political coverage during the 2012 election year due to her husband’s appointment to the Barack Obama 2012 presidential re-election campaign. Audie Cornish replaced Norris. On January 3, 2013, NPR announced that Norris would be returning to the organization in a new role as host and special correspondent, and that Audie Cornish would remain as host of All Things Considered.

Norris was born in Minnesota, to Betty and Belvin Norris Jr.; Belvin served in the Navy in World War II. Michele attended Washburn High School in Minneapolis, and went on to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she first studied electrical engineering, but then transferred to the University of Minnesota where she majored in journalism and mass communications.

Norris joined the National Public Radio (NPR) evening news program All Things Considered on December 9, 2002, becoming the first African-American female host for NPR. In 2015, Fortune described Norris as “one of [NPR’s] biggest stars.”

Michele Norris Net Worth

Michele Norris is one of the richest Radio Personality from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michele Norris 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Norris wrote for The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. In 1990, while at The Washington Post, Norris received the Livingston Award for articles she wrote about the life of a six-year-old boy who lived with a crack-addicted mother in a crack house.

From 1993 to 2002, Norris was a news correspondent for ABC News, winning an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award for coverage of the September 11 attacks.

The Race Card Project was a project Norris began in 2010 in collaboration with NPR, inviting people to submit comments on their experience of race in the United States in six words. Norris and collaborators won a 2014 Peabody Award for the project.

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Who is Michele Norris Dating?

According to our records, Michele Norris married to Broderick D. Johnson. As of December 1, 2023, Michele Norris’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Michele Ranked on the list of most popular Radio Personality. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michele Norris celebrates birthday on September 7 of every year.

Is Michele Norris black?

Norris was the first African-American female host for National Public Radio (NPR).

Why did Michele Norris leave NPR?

“After being in one place for 13 years, I want to take stock of a completely changed media landscape and figure out what I want to do next and where I want to do it ,” she said.

What is the grace of silence about?

In what became a profoundly personal and bracing journey into her family’s past, Norris traveled from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South to explore the reasons for the “things left unsaid” by her father and mother when she was growing up, the better to come to terms with her own …