Cynthia McFadden was born on May 27,1956 and is an American television journalist who is currently the senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News.
16 Facts About Cynthia McFadden
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Cynthia McFadden was an anchor and correspondent for ABC News who co-anchored Nightline, and occasionally appeared on ABC News special Primetime.
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Cynthia McFadden was with ABC News from 1994 to 2014 and joined NBC News in March 2014.
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From 1984 to 1991, Cynthia McFadden was the executive producer of Fred Friendly's Media and Society seminars based at Columbia, many of which were broadcast on PBS.
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Cynthia McFadden then joined the Courtroom Television Network as an anchor and producer in 1991, its inaugural year.
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Cynthia McFadden became an anchor of Primetime in 2004 and, having previously substituted for Ted Koppel on several occasions, an anchor of Nightline on November 28,2005, along with Martin Bashir and Terry Moran, following the longtime anchor's final broadcast.
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On March 29,2014, after two decades with ABC News, with the last nine years as a Nightline anchor, Cynthia McFadden left and joined NBC News.
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Cynthia McFadden serves as the senior legal and investigative correspondent, contributing to NBC's investigative unit across all NBC News platforms.
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Cynthia McFadden has additionally hosted or co-hosted a number of documentaries and specials on ABC.
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Cynthia McFadden is co-chair of the board of IWMF.
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Cynthia McFadden married Michael John Davies, editor and publisher of the Hartford Courant, on September 9,1989; they were divorced in 1996.
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Cynthia McFadden has a son with Foreign Affairs editor James Hoge, Spencer Graham McFadden Hoge, who was born in 1998 and named after the actor Spencer Tracy.
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Cynthia McFadden is the executor of the estate of longtime friend actress Katharine Hepburn.
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Cynthia McFadden has Crohn's disease and has done public service announcements to raise awareness of the condition.
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In October 2020 Town and Country magazine published an account Cynthia McFadden and her son Spencer wrote about their road trip from New York City to California, where he was a student.
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Cynthia McFadden encouraged him to earn a driver's license by promising him a new car.