One of the most recognisable faces on news television is Chris Licht. The television producer has been a part of the business for thirty years. He has served in this capacity as CNN’s chairman and CEO since May 2022.
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Morning Joe, and CBS This Morning were all hosted by Licht. The journalist and producer has made enormous riches over the course of his three-decade career. Here is all the information we have on his earnings and net worth.
Chris Licht has a $15 million net worth, according to the website Celebrity Net Worth. The majority of his profits came from his work as a journalist and television producer. His claimed yearly compensation is in the neighbourhood of $3 million.
Licht earned a degree in broadcast journalism and political science from Syracuse University’s S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1994. He began working at KNBC in Los Angeles shortly after graduating from college before joining the NBC affiliates in LA and San Francisco.
He started working for MSNBC in 2005 as the executive producer of Morning Joe and Scarborough Country. After joining CBS in 2011, Licht was promoted to vice president of programming at CBS News.
He began executive producing CBS This Morning the following year. The programme experienced extraordinary success and new heights under his direction. He was appointed executive producer of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2016, and a month later, the show’s weekly audience reached a record high.
With former president Jeff Zucker’s retirement in February 2022, Licht was appointed chairman and CEO of CNN. In May of the same year, he assumed control of the business. He soon set out to restrict the use of the term “breaking news” to reports that were of at least moderate importance. Also, Licht tried to alter Republicans’ opinions of CNN.
“Unfortunately, far too many people no longer trust the news media. On his first day, he addressed the staff and said, “I believe we can be a lighthouse in recovering that trust by being an organisation that exhibits the finest attributes in journalism: bravely speaking truth to power, challenging the existing quo, and questioning group-think.
“And enlightening readers and viewers with plain information and perceptive comments, always with consideration for other people’s points of view. We should and will be truth advocates first and foremost, he continued.
The newsreader experienced a brain haemorrhage in Washington, D.C., in 2010. After he had recovered, he made the decision to write a book about his experience. In 2011, Simon & Schuster released his book What I Learned When I Nearly Died: How a Crazy TV Producer Laid Down His BlackBerry and Began to Enjoy His Life.
In his career, Licht has also received a number of honours. He served as the executive producer when CBS This Morning won two News & Documentary Emmy Awards and a Daytime Emmy Award. Also, he shared two 2015 Emmy nominations: Best Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast and Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast.