Craig Melvin Biography

Craig Melvin is an American broadcast journalist, host, and anchor working at NBC News and MSNBC. He joined MSNBC and NBC in July 2011. 

Craig Melvin Career

Melvin serves as an anchor and co-host at MSNBC. In October 2018, he started his role as a co-host of Today Third Hour before being made permanent in January 2019. In August 2018, he started his role as an anchor at the station. His career started off at NBC affiliate WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina where he served as an “Our Generation Reporter” from 1995 to 1997.

After he graduated from college, he continued working for WIS in July 2001 serving as a producer, news photographer, and later on a reporter. Several years later, he was given a raise and started serving as a news anchor for the weekend evening newscasts and weekend morning newscasts. During his time at WIS, he also created quite a number of series that enclosed issues affecting education and the homeless in Columbia, among others.

Melvin left the station in July 2008 and started working for WRC-TV, an NBC-owned-and-operated station in Washington, D.C., where he served as the anchor of the weekend evening newscasts. He left WRC-TV in July 2011 and joined MSBC and started off by serving as a daytime anchor while also contributing to NBC News as a reporter. Melvin also anchored for MSNBC in 2012 about the national conventions for the Republican and Democratic parties.

He also enclosed TV One’s Election Night encasement, in partnership with NBC News. In addition to this, he also enclosed the Sandy Hook shootings in December 2012. Furthermore, Melvin enclosed the Moore tornado in May 2013 and the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214. In July 2013, he extensively covered the George Zimmerman trial, and later on, in 2014, enclosed the shooting of Michael Brown in August.

Melvin also made an extensive report on the mass shooting of Dallas police officers in July 2016. Furthermore, he was also part of the NBC reporters covering the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in August. In 2016, he took over José Díaz-Balart’s position as an anchor of MSNBC Live, which would become MSNBC Reports.

He was also the host of his own true crime series “Dateline: Secrets Uncovered” in 2017 which premiered on Oxygen on July 21. Melvin did a special report on the Winter Olympics in February from Pyeongchang County for NBC in February 2018.

Craig Melvin Age

Melvin is 44 years old. He was born on May 20, 1979, in Columbia, South Carolina, the U.S. He celebrates his birthday on May 20th every year.

Craig Melvin Height

Melvin stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.69 m).

Craig Melvin Family

Melvin was born to Lawrence Melvin and Betty Melvin. He has a younger brother, Ryan Melvin, and an older half-brother, Rev. Lawrence Meadows, who at the age of 43 died from colon cancer on December 9, 2020.

Craig Melvin Wife

Melvin married then-ESPN sports anchor and former WRC-TV sports reporter Lindsay Czarniak on 15 October 2011. They live in Connecticut and have a son, Delano “Del,” born in March 2014, and a daughter, Sybil “Sibby,” born in November 2016.

Craig Melvin Net Worth

Melvin has an estimated net worth of $9 Million which he has earned through being a news anchor.

Craig Melvin Salary

Melvin earns an annual salary of $3 Million.

Craig Melvin MSNBC

Melvin works at MSNBC where he works alongside other famous MSNBC anchors, reporters, meteorologists, and sports anchors including;

1. Midwin Charles
2. Tamron Hall
3. Kasie Hunt
4. Stephanie Ruhle
5. Katy Tur
6. Alicia Menendez
7. Nicolle Wallace
8. Ali Vitali
9. Rachel Maddow
10. Yasmin Vossoughian
11. Joshua Johnson
12. Alex Witt
13. Hallie Jackson
14. Steve Kornacki

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