Allan Chernoff Biography

Allan Chernoff is a Writer/Director/Correspondent best known for working with CNN where he served the station as a Senior Correspondent and one of the nation’s trailblazing journalists specializing in personal finance and business affairs.

He has also worked as a translator of The Tailors of Tomaszow, a communal memoir, and biography of Holocaust refugees from Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, with Rena Margulies Chernoff. Since 2013, he works as a writer and CEO of Chernoff Communications.

Allan Chernoff CNN

Chernoff worked with CNN where he was working with the station as a CNN Senior Correspondent and one of the nation’s trailblazing journalists specializing in personal finance and business affairs. He also appears on CNN, CNN International, CNN Radio, writes for MONEY.COM and CNN.COM, and HLN.

He served the station as CNN’s economic and personal finance analyst. For more than two decades, he helped viewers, readers, and listeners understand economic swings, the ups and downs of the stock, bond, and commodity markets, and how to best manage their personal finances. Prior to the recent financial crisis, he reported extensively on the looming mortgage meltdown, the implications it could have, and how homeowners could best brace themselves.

Among his many CNN exclusives, he has exposed serious safety gaps in the airline industry, fraud in the healthcare system, and ecological damage caused by ethanol production. As a part of his extensive coverage of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he has revealed the fact that oil rig blowout preventers, used as a fail-safe by the oil drilling industry, had a history of failure before the BP disaster.

He was the first to report that insurance companies were refusing to compensate homeowners victimized by Hurricane Katrina, which led to multiple lawsuits against the industry. Aside from that, he broke the news of the insider trading guilty plea of former ImClone CEO Sam Waksal.

He has also covered SEC fraud charges against WorldCom; the plan to dissolve the accounting firm, Arthur Anderson. This is in addition to providing the details of the global settlement between tobacco companies and the states. He has also covered every major business scandal since the 1980s from Milken to Martha to Madoff.

Asides from that, he was a founding journalist of Financial News Network(FNN), the television’s first network devoted to financing and business, and was FNN’s first New York Correspondent. Prior to joining CNN in the year 2000, he reported for CNBC and NBC programs which include the weekend editions of NBC Nightly Newz and Today, as well as for MSNBC and WNBC.

Chernoff also reported on international, economic, and political affairs from Russia, Israel, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Germany. While working for CNBC, he created and presented the network’s “Managing Your Money” segments and later rose to become CNBC’s first Senior Correspondent.

Chernoff has also written on business, travel, foreign affairs, and sports for The New York Times, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and other publications. She is a proud graduate of Brown University and earned an Executive Certificate in Financial Planning from Fordham University.

He has also sat on the board of the Deadline Club and is a career advisor for Brown University. He was also an interviewer for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Project and a board member and Secretary of the New York Financial Writers Association.

Allan Chernoff Age

Chernoff likes to keep his personal life private and hence has not yet disclosed the year and month he was born. It is therefore not known when he celebrates his birthday.

Allan Chernoff Height

Chernoff stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches.

Allan Chernoff Family

Chernoff has managed to keep his personal life away from the limelight hence he has not disclosed any information about his/her parents. It is also not known if Chernoff has any siblings.

Allan Chernoff Wife

Chernoff is very private about his personal life therefore it is not known if he is in any relationship. There are also no rumors of him being in any past relationship with anyone.

Allan Chernoff Net Worth

Chernoff has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million which he has earned through being a writer and director of Chernoff Communications.

Allan Chernoff Salary

Chernoff earns an annual salary ranging from $40,000 – $110,500.

Allan Chernoff Awards

Among his honors, Chernoff is the six-time recipient of the New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Outstanding News Awards, Deadline Club. He has won two National Headliner Awards; two New York Festival Awards; and a Prisma Award. Chernoff’s stories led to the CNN DuPont Prize, and his coverage of the Gulf oil spill, Hurricane Katrina, and study of economic problems in the 2008 presidential race was also part of CNN’s Peabody Award-winning efforts. His work was also recognized by the Sidney Hillman Foundation and the University of Maryland.

Allan Chernoff CNN

Chernoff worked at CNN alongside other famous CNN anchors, reporters, meteorologists, and sports anchors including;

1. Roland Martin
2. Alex Marquardt
3. Jean Casarez
4. Dylan Byers
5. Katrina Pierson
6. Reynolds Wolf
7. Kirsten Powers
8. Midwin Charles
9. Anderson Cooper
10. Jason Carroll
11. Josh Campbell
12. Ryan Browne
13. Pamela Brown
14. Gloria Borger

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