Name Joe Johns TV shows Anderson Cooper 360° | Role Correspondent | |
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Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form Similar People Anderson Cooper, Michelle Bernard, Gary Tuchman, Randi Kaye, Tom Foreman Profiles |
Marshall university graduate joe johns
Joseph Eduardo "Joe" Johns is an American Senior Washington Correspondent for CNN, based in the Washington, D.C., bureau. He was promoted to the position in 2014. He previously worked as an NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent for TODAY and other NBC programs. He worked for WRC-TV/NBC4 in Washington, D.C. He also worked as an anchor for WSAZ-TV in 1980.
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In 2016, Johns did an interview with CAPITOL STANDARD and said this of the lessons he's learned in media "Be skeptical of hype. People who tell big lies don’t back down, even when confronted with the truth."

Johns was a star discus thrower at West High School in Columbus, Ohio. He was a four-year scholarship track and field athlete at Marshall University and was inducted into the Marshall University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and a law degree from American University in D.C.

Johns was married to former MSNBC analyst Michelle Bernard; the couple divorced in 2008.