Carol Marin Biography
Carol Marin is an American Reporter/Anchor who is best known for her time at NBC5 as a news anchor and reporter. Besides her duties in NBC5, she was an interviewer on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” and a political columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Carol Marin Career
Based in Chicago, Illinois, Marin is a television and print journalist. Marin attended and graduated from Palatine High School. She then joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is an award-winning reporter who has obtained journalism’s highest honors for instant two national Emmys, two duPont-Columbia awards, and two George Foster Peabody awards. The awards include a huge range of work that covers organized crime and a 20-year documentary project on the challenge of the facially disfigured and investigative anchoring on political corruption.
Her profession started in Knoxville, Tennessee at WBIR-TV and proceeded at WSM-TV in Nashville where she both reported and anchored. Carol came back home to Chicago and NBC5 News where she served as an anchor and reporter for the 6 & 10 p.m. newscasts from 1978 to May 1997. She became a correspondent for CBS News, working for both 60 Minutes II and 60 Minutes from 1997-2002.
Carol and producer Don Moseley produced Marin Corp Productions, an independent documentary company that has produced Discovery/NewYorkTimes and hour-long programs for CNN Presents in June of 2002. She returned to WMAQ in 2004 as the station’s political editor. After two years she signed on as a contributor to Chicago Tonight on WTTW.
Carol Marin Retires
In September 2020, Marin announced that she would be leaving WMAQ and WTTW following the November general election. November 5, 2020, was her final appearance on WTTW, and on November 6, 2020, she had her final sign-off on WMAQ.
Carol Marin Age
Carol Marin was born on 10 October 1948. She is 73 years old. Marin is 74 years old as of 2022. She was born on the 10th of October 1948 in the United States. Main celebrated her birthday on the 10th of October every year.
Carol Marin Height
She stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 6 inches.
Carol Marin Family
Marin was born in the United States to her parents, Daniel Martin and Odessa. Her father happened to be an autoworker for General Motors Corporation in Detroit. Her brother-in-law, Garrick Utley states that they have a happy family and that her parents are amazing personas made for each other.
Carol Marin Husband
She is married to her husband, Jonathan Utley, who are a Historian of World War 2, a retired professor, and an author of 1971. The duo got married in the year 1972 and have adopted children together. They have a son together named, Joshua Anthony Utley-Marin.
Carol Marin Net Worth
Marin has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million which she has earned from her successful career as a Reporter/Anchor.
Carol Marin Salary
Marin earns an annual salary ranging between $40,000 – $ 110,500.