Elaine Quijano Biography

Elaine Quijano is an American anchor and reporter working as an anchor for CBSN, CBS News’ 24/7 digital streaming service, and a correspondent for CBS News contributing to all CBS News broadcasts and platforms. She has been working for CBS since January 2010.

Elaine Quijano Career

Quijano started her journalism career as an intern in 1994 at WCIA-TV in Champaign, Illinois. After several months, she started serving as a producer, anchor as well as a reporter. She then left the station in 1998 and joined hands with WFTS-TV in Tampa, Florida, USA where she served as a general assignment reporter. She left the station in 2000 and joined CNN in December of that year and started off by serving as a correspondent.

During her tenure at CNN, she enclosed the attacks that took place on September 11, 2001. In 2003, he went to Kuwait City shortly before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Quijano also enclosed the Beltway sniper attacks and the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

In 2004, she joined CNN/US serving as a Washington, D.C.-based general assignment correspondent. In this role, she enclosed the Supreme Court, the Pentagon, and the 2004 re-election campaign of President George W. Bush. In addition to this, she also enclosed the campaign of vice presidential candidate John Edwards. She has also tagged as a White House correspondent for CNN in 2006.

In this role, she also enclosed the main events and stories of the George W. Bush administration, including the 2008 financial crisis. Additionally, she also enclosed the unsuccessful bid for comprehensive immigration reform and the War on Terror. On December 23, 2009, she left the station and moved on to work at CBS.

Elaine Quijano CBS

Quijano works for CBS serving as an anchor and reporter. She joined CBS after previously working for CNN from December 2000 till his departure on December 23, 2009. She is also working for CBSN, the digital streaming network for CBS where she serves as an anchor.

While on CBS, she enclosed Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. She also enclosed the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 and the 2014 World Cup. From 2016 to 2020, she anchored the Sunday edition of CBS Weekend News. In addition to that, some of her work appeared on CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning.

Quijano was the convocation speaker in 2009 at the UIUC College of Media, her alma mater. She was tagged the moderator for the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday, October 4, 2016, by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD)at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. Due to this, she became the very first Asian American to moderate a U.S. debate for national elected office in the general election.

Elaine Quijano Age

Quijano is 50 years old. She was born on 21 January 1974 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She celebrates her birthday on the 21st of January every year.

Elaine Quijano Height

Quijano stands at an average height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) tall.

Elaine Quijano Family

Quijano’s family now resides in Batangas and Davao City in the Philippines, where her mother and father come from. Growing up in the Skokie and Morton Grove suburbs of Chicago, she is one of the 36 million second-generation immigrants in the US.

Elaine Quijano Husband

Quijano is very private about her personal life therefore it is not known if she is in any relationship. There are also no rumors of her being in any past relationship with anyone.

Elaine Quijano Salary

Quijano earns an annual salary ranging from $176,166.

Elaine Quijano’s Net Worth

Quijano has an estimated net worth ranging between $10 Million – $15 million which she has earned through being an anchor.

CBS News

Quijano works at CBS News where she works alongside other famous CBS News anchors, reporters, meteorologists, and sports anchors including;

1. Trish Rega
2. Carmen Rita Wong
3. Darren Rovell
4. Dee Dee Myers
5. Morgan Brennan
6. Jim Cramer
7. Kate Rogers
8. Weijia Jiang
9. Maria Mercader

The table below answers some of the frequently asked questions about Quijano.