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Leading Ladies of the News All Over the World

Behind every great story, there's a face to tell it. Delivery is important, after all! We wanted to highlight some of the best in the business -- particularly the ladies. Interesting fact: most news reporters are women! According to Zippia, 52.9% of reporters out there are women! Who knew this was such a female-dominated field? 

As beautiful as they are smart and talented, these women are among the best in the business. They're the first faces we see when we hear everything, so it takes a lot of grace, too! From the United States to Japan, the top anchors in the world are earning big bucks and making waves across the globe. It's definitely time to highlight them for everything they've done and everything they will do in the future! 

Let's take a look at the leading ladies of the news all over the world. Some faces may seem familiar, but they are all as fresh as the stories themselves. 

Did we forget any of the women you see on the news every day? We're sure we missed a lot of local news anchors, so don't be afraid to shout out the person you love to watch spread the news. 

Mayte Carranco

Mayte Carranco

Mayte Carranco is a model and weatherperson for FOROtv, a Mexican news station. She was also the Miss Televisa Monterrey beauty pageant.

Carranco's estimated net worth is between $100K to $1 Million, but the real number is unknown. Much of her income comes from modeling.

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Sara Carbonero

Sara Carbonero

Sara Carbonero is a Spanish sports journalist and presenter for Telecinco. She has a net worth of about $10 Million. Her salary is estimated to be about $1 Million per year.

Sara Carbonero is Roman Catholic and has a home in Madrid. She is married to a soccer player, Iker Casillas, since 2016, and they have two sons together.

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Lara Logan

Lara Logan

Lara Logan is a South African news anchor, radio journalist, and war correspondent. She served as a correspondent for CBS News, then moved on to the Sinclair Broadcast Group media company, and finally joined Fox Nation – a streaming service. She has a net worth of about $6 Million and makes $2 Million per year.

Lara Logan graduated from the University of Natal with a degree in Commerce. She also earned a diploma in the French language from Alliance Française. She has been married twice and is currently married to Joseph Burkett, a U.S. government defense contractor from Texas, whom she met in Afghanistan. They share two children.

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Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman is a broadcast journalist, investigative reporter, and author of six books. She is currently the host of a news show called Democracy Now! Amy Goodman has a net worth of about $3 Million, but her exact salary is not known.

For her achievements in journalism, she was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the George Polk Award, and the 2008 Right Livelihood Award, among many others over her career. She also has an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from DePauw University and Purchase College.

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Susan Li

Susan Li

Susan Li is a news anchor who currently works for the Fox Business Network. She graduated from the University of Toronto and has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million. Her annual salary is said to be between $75K and  $90K.

Susan Li was born in China and raised in Canada. Starting off as a freelance reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, she later got a job as an anchor on China Central Television. Additionally, she has worked for Bloomberg, CNBC Asia, CNBC Europe, and CNBC in the US.

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Pamela David

Pamela David

Pamela David is an Argentinian anchor who has worked as a model, voice actress, and presenter. She is currently working on América TV's Desayuno Americano.

Pamela David's net worth is said to be between $100K and $1 Million.  With that said, her actual salary is not known. She has a husband and son.

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Charlotte Hawkins

Charlotte Hawkins

Charlotte Hawkins is an English news anchor, as well as a journalist and presenter. She has a net worth of about $1 Million and earns about $850K per year.

Hawkins first joined ITV's Meridian Tonight in 2003 and then later joined Sky's Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes in 2006. Since 2014, she has worked on Good Morning Britain.

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Amanda Drury

Amanda Drury

Amanda Drury is an Australian journalist and anchor for CNBC. Born in Melbourne, she attended Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne and graduated in 1990. Since 2016, she has been part of the CNBC Asia team. Her net worth is estimated at over $1.5 Million.

Other jobs she has had include a broadcaster on Bloomberg in Tokyo, co-host of Street Signs in the US, and co-presenter of The Call.

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Jeanine Pirro

Jeanine Pirro

Jeanine Pirro is a news anchor for the Fox News Channel and has her own show, Justice with Judge Jeanine. She has also served as a contributor for NBC News. Pirro has a net worth of $12 million and earns a salary of about $3 Million annually.

Jeanine holds a conservative ideology and has even been politically active in the past, attempting to run against Hillary Clinton in the Senate. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Buffalo and a J.D. from Albany Law School.

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Ghida Fakhry

Ghida Fakhry

Ghida Fakhry is a Lebanese broadcast journalist and anchor. She is both the host and managing editor of the show Inside America. She also works on a monthly show called Bigger than Five on TRT World. Her net worth is $2 Million, and she makes around $108K per year.

Ghida Fakhry pursued two degrees in college: English and French. She completed the French baccalaureate degree program and later earned a master's in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of London. In addition to French, English, and Arabic, she can also speak conversational Spanish.

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Yanet Garcia

Yanet Garcia

Yanet Garcia is a Mexican weather anchor for Televisa Monterrey. Her natural talent in front of the camera and stunning beauty make audiences tune in day after day. Her net worth is around $3 Million. Her salary is not known.

Yanet Garcia has also modeled, having been featured on the cover of Maxim in 2018. She has even opened up her own modeling school: Yanet Garcia Models. She currently has a huge following after being mentioned by Playboy, including her 13.7 Million followers on Instagram.

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Mélissa Theuriau

Mélissa Theuriau

Mélissa Theuriau is a French journalist and news anchor for the M6 station in France. Mélissa Theuriau has appeared on numerous news programs, including La Chaîne Info.

Mélissa Theuriau's net worth is said to be a whopping $18 Million, so you can imagine she has a sizable annual salary. He has a DUT in News-Communication from the Technical University and a master's degree in Audiovisual Journalism from the Institute of Communication and Media.

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Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow is one of the leading news anchors and commentators on MSNBC. She has her own show, appropriately titled The Rachel Maddow Show. She also co-hosts also with Brian Williams for special events.

Rachel Maddow has a net worth of about $25 Million and has an annual salary of about $7 Million. She currently holds a bachelor's degree in Public Policy from Stanford University and has a doctorate in Political Science from Oxford University.

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Magda Palimariu

Magda Palimariu

Magda Palimariu is a Romanian TV presenter and model from Transylvania. However, to be clear, she's not a vampire - she just doesn't age. Her first television job was on the Pro TV channel in Romania, serving as a weather reporter.

Her net worth and salary have not been disclosed. However, we do know where she went to school. She graduated from Pedagogical High School and, later on, Letter College. She received her master's degree in Journalism.

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Miki Yamamoto

Miki Yamamoto

Miki Yamamoto currently works as an anchor on NEWSLINE on NHK World. She reports on domestic and international news, as well as disasters and food-related issues. She is also multi-lingual, as Miki Yamamoto spent much of her childhood in New York City, learning French and English.

Miki Yamamoto has a net worth estimated to be between $1 Million and $5 Million. She has been working for the network since 1992 and is currently in the morning slot at 10 am Korean time.

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Ri Chun-hee

Ri Chun-hee

Ri Chun-hee is a news anchor for the North Korean broadcasting company Korean Central Television. Unlike other news outlets, her broadcasts are known for being more emotional, teetering between passionate and menacing at times.

At 77 years old, she hasn't lost a step in the world of newscasting. Her net worth is estimated to be between $1 Million and $5 Million. Her salary is not known.

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Laura Miller

Laura Miller

Laura Miller, a Scottish news anchor, currently works for BBC Scotland. She works as the main anchor for Reporting Scotland and The Nine. She has an estimated net worth of about $815K.

Laura Miller studied broadcast journalism at the University College Falmouth in Cornwall. There, she produced a documentary about the 2004 Asian tsunami. In 2007, she joined the STV network, becoming the main presenter for STV News at Six.

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Alison Comyn

Alison Comyn

Alison Comyn is an Irish news anchor for Sky World News on the Sky News network. Before that, she anchored for UTV Ireland's weekday news programs, Ireland Live and Ireland Live news at 1. Other stations she worked for include RTÉ, BBC, and Channel 4.

Alison Comyn's net worth is estimated to be between $1M and $5 Million. She has a husband, Malachy Murphy, and two children: Holly and Luke.

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Barbara Francesca Ovieni

Barbara Francesca Ovieni

Barbara Francesca Ovieni is an Italian news anchor born in Milan. In addition to those duties, she also works as a musical artist and a model. She has hosted such programs as Night Match on TeleMilano, Rai Sport's Speciale Mercato Zona 11, and Bordo Campo. Her net worth is likely between $100K and $5 Million.

While hosting a football show called Rabona, she made news recently thanks to a wardrobe malfunction on camera. Known for dressing up on television, she showed a little more than she intended. Barbara Francesca Ovieni is not known much outside of Italy but she does have over 130K followers on Instagram.

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Yonit Levi

Yonit Levi

Yonit Levi is an Israeli news anchor and TV presenter. Born in Jerusalem, she is of Jewish heritage. Currently, she works as the chief news anchor on Keshet 12. Her net worth is believed to be between $1 Million and $5 Million.

After serving in the army as a foreign news editor on Army Radio, she moved on to Israel Television News in 1998. Once her co-anchor on Channel 2's primetime news left, she became the very first woman in Israel to become the sole anchor on a prime-time newscast for a commercial channel.

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Christiane Amanpour

Christiane Amanpour

Cristiane Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist who acts as the Chief International Anchor for CNN and other CNN International nightly news programs. Her net worth is estimated to be an impressive $18 Million with an annual salary of $5 Million.

Christiane Amanpour is fluent in English and Persian. She attended primary school in Iran and was then sent to an English boarding school when she was 11. Eventually, Amanpour moved to the United States to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island.

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Sana Kevan

Sana Kevan

Sana Kevan is a Pakistani primetime host for two news shows, including working with BOL as an anchor. Formerly, she worked as a correspondent for Express News and Neo News.

Sana Kevan's net worth and salary are not known. But while hosting two shows at once right now, this hard-working woman is sure to earn plenty.

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Petra Gerster

Petra Gerster

Petra Gerster is a German journalist and news presenter. Since 1989, she has worked as a TV journalist for ZDF. Her net worth is estimated to be around $6 Million.

Gerster is versed in German studies, Slavic studies, and literature with a grant from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation at the University of Konstanz. She has also studied in the US and Paris.

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Diane Mecado

Diane Mecado

Diane Mecado is an American television anchor for ABC News. She serves as a co-anchor for both World News Now and America This Morning. She has also been an anchor on the weekend version of Good Morning America.Her net worth is said to be $1.2 Million, and she has an annual salary of $120K.

Before ABC, she was an on-air reporter for the Fox Business Network. Before that, she went to Boston University as a double-major in political science and communications.

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Nidhi Razdan

Nidhi Razdan

Nidhi Razdan is a career journalist in India who is an executive editor for NDTV and a primary anchor on NDTV 24x7's Left, Right & Centre news debate show, as well as a weekly debate show called The Big Fight. The shows are hosted in the English language.

She has worked for the network since 1999, and her net worth is estimated to be about $0.5 Million. Over the years, she has covered a wide range of news events, including the India-US nuclear deal and election coverage.

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Julie Banderas

Julie Banderas

Julie Banderas was an American news anchor on the show Fox Report Weekend. However, after taking maternity leave, she was reassigned as a general news correspondent. Now, she works as a primary fill anchor from Monday through Friday. She has a net worth of $12 Million. Her salary is not known, but the average salary for a Fox News reporter is around $73K.  

Julie Banderas was a graduate of Emerson College before she turned Fox News anchor. She earned a bachelor's degree and started her career on WLVI-TV, a local Boston station. She would work for several other local channels before joining Fox News.

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Rima Maktabi

Rima Maktabi

Rima Maktabi, born in Beirut, is a Lebanese TV presenter and an award-winning journalist. She currently hosts a monthly program on CNN called Inside the Middle East. She has also worked at al-Arabiya, an Arab satellite channel. For her coverage of the Israeli and Lebanese war in 2006, she earned multiple journalism awards.

Rima Maktabi's exact net worth is not known but is estimated to be about $12 Million. Annually, she is believed to earn up to $2 Million. But before she became a millionaire and won awards, it took a lot of hard work to get there. She graduated from the Lebanese American University with a bachelor's degree in Communication Arts, and she also earned a master's degree in International Affairs.

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