Chuck Todd Wiki, Age, Wife, Salary, Height, Weight Loss, Family, Instagram, Children

Chuck Todd Wiki – Chuck Todd Biography

Chuck Todd born Charles David Todd is an American television journalist who is the 12th and current moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press. He also hosts MTP Daily on MSNBC and is the Political Director for NBC News. Before taking the helm of Meet the Press, Todd was Chief White House correspondent for NBC as well as a host of The Daily Rundown on MSNBC. He also serves as NBC News’ on-air political analyst for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Today. Before entering the world of political reporting and analysis, he earned practical political experience on initiative campaigns in Florida and various national campaigns based in Washington, D.C. While in college, he worked for the 1992 presidential campaign of Senator Tom Harkin and later started working part-time at National Journal’s The Hotline. From 1992 until March 12, 2007, he worked for National Journal’s The Hotline, where he was editor-in-chief for six years. As part of his position, Todd also co-hosted, with John Mercurio, the webcast series Hotline TV, consisting of a daily show lasting between three and seven minutes and a weekly show ranging between 20 and 30 minutes. He became a frequent guest on political discussion shows, such as Hardball with Chris Matthews and Inside Politics with Judy Woodruff.

Tim Russert brought Todd to NBC from The Hotline in March 2007. He became the NBC News political director at that time. In this role, he often provided on-air political analysis on political discussion shows, including Morning Joe, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Meet the Press, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, and The Rachel Maddow Show and blogged for MSNBC.com at “First Read”. He also did a weekly Question and Answer (“Q&A”) session with users at Newsvine. After Tim Russert’s death in June 2008, he was a candidate to replace him as the host of NBC’s Meet the Press, but David Gregory was ultimately selected for the job. On December 18, 2008, NBC announced that he would succeed Gregory as NBC News Chief White House Correspondent, partnering with Savannah Guthrie on the news beat. He retained his title as NBC News Political Director and was also named Contributing Editor to Meet the Press. Todd was a focus of an August 2008 Los Angeles Times article paralleling Todd’s rise to the rise of cable news networks in coverage of U.S. politics. The article noted the emergence of Todd’s fans, deemed “Chuckolytes”.

On July 6, 2009, former MSNBC television personality Dan Abrams launched a website service, Mediaite, reporting on media figures. The site ranks all TV-based journalists in America by influence. Todd ranked, as of October 2009, right before Mike Wallace as number five. He rose to number two as of December 21, 2011, but fell to 90 as of January 9, 2013. On January 11, 2010, he became co-host, with Savannah Guthrie, of The Daily Rundown on MSNBC, airing weekday mornings from 09:00 to 10:00 ET. On August 14, 2014, NBC announced that Todd would take over as the host of Meet the Press beginning September 7, 2014. While remaining as NBC News political director, he left his role as chief White House correspondent as well as the anchor of The Daily Rundown. On July 23, 2015, MSNBC announced he would return to the network with a daily political show called MTP Daily, which was airing on weekdays at 17:00 ET. The show was an extension of Meet the Press. He continued moderating Meet the Press on NBC.

On January 22, 2017, Todd interviewed Kellyanne Conway on Meet the Press, the day after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer accused the media of deliberately under-reporting the crowd size at President Trump’s inaugural ceremony. On June 26 and 27, 2019, Todd, along with Jose Diaz-Balart, Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, and Rachel Maddow, moderated the first pair of 2020 Democratic Party presidential debates. Todd’s performance as a moderator, in which he ended up speaking more than all but four of the presidential candidates on the first night of the debates, was widely panned. Todd was also criticized for asking candidates lengthy questions and then requesting them to respond “in one or two words”. In a December 2019 interview with Rolling Stone, he discussed his belief about how disinformation overtook the media during the Trump administration, however, although Todd had addressed “alternative facts” being lies in January 2017, PressThink, a project of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, took Todd to task for failing to address the issues as they unfolded, in a very detailed and accusatory discussion of Todd’s remarks. On February 11, 2020, he came under fire after quoting a conservative columnist on air during his show about 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders that compared Sanders and his supporters to Nazi Brownshirts.

He is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House. Published in 2014, the Chicago Tribune described the book as “richly sourced and deeply informed,” while Publishers Weekly called it “an even-handed, concise, and thorough account.”[24] Todd is also co-author, with Sheldon Gawiser, of How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election, published in 2009. He picks NFL football games for Tony Kornheiser on his podcast The Tony Kornheiser Show. Each week, he is pitted against Reginald, a monkey, who also picks NFL games. He graduated from Miami Killian Senior High School in Kendall, an unincorporated suburban community in greater Miami. Todd attended George Washington University from 1990 to 1994. He declared a major in political science and a minor in music but did not earn a degree.

Chuck Todd Age

He was born on April 8, 1972 in Miami, Florida, United States.

Chuck Todd Wife

He is married to his wife, Kristian Denny Todd. They reside in Arlington, Virginia. His wife is a communications professional and co-founder of Maverick Strategies and Mail, which provides direct mail and consulting services for Democratic candidates and progressive causes. She was the spokesperson for the successful U.S. Senate campaign of Senator Jim Webb in 2006.

Chuck Todd Children

He has two children, Harrison Todd, and Margaret Todd.

Chuck Todd Family

He is the son of Lois Cheri and Stephen Randolph Todd. He is Jewish on his mother’s side and was raised Jewish.

Chuck Todd Instagram

Chuck Todd’s Instagram account is @chucktodd.