She now creates and hosts the true crime documentary series “On the Case with Paula Zahn” to the Investigation Discovery station. Zahn started her work at CNN on September 11, 2001, joining anchorman Aaron Brown in the coverage of the day’s terrorist attacks as her reaction to the events she observed. Although not scheduled to appear on a CNN program, that was still in development, she started a routine morning news shift the following day. By January, she started her CNN morning news program, American Morning with Paula Zahn. The last program of Paula Zahn Now aired August 2, 2007. The statement came less than a day after CNN hired Campbell Brown, the previous co host of Weekend Today. Initially, guest hosts basically continued Zahn’s program below the title Out in the Open. It was afterwards replaced by election campaign coverage and finally Brown’s program, Campbell Brown: No Prejudice, No Bull. Based on Zahn’s farewell letter written to CNN staff, she said “I intend to take a rest between occupations and catch my breath before I take on my subsequent job.” In a New York Times interview, that was ran right following the announcement of her resignation broke, Zahn told Jacques Steinberg that “she’d no clue what she’d be doing next”.
Journalist, Broadcaster, Actor, Television producer
Education
Central High School Naperville, Stephens College Columbia, Missouri
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Richard Cohen (m. 1987)
Children
Austin Bryce Cohen, Haley Cohen, Jared Brandon Cohen
Parents
Betty Zahn, Norm Zahn
Nicknames
Paula Ann Zahn
Awards
AWRT award, Emmy Awards
Movies
Investigation Discovery, On The Case With Paula Zahn, American Morning, NYC Arts, The Edge, The Ultimate Driving Challenge, Nuclear Nightmare: Japan in Crisis, Retirement Revolution, Retirement Revolution: The New Reality
Star Sign
Pisces
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Fact
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She lives in New York, New York in an Upper East Side co-op apartment building facing Central Park. This posh building was made famous as being the home of Pale Male (2002), a red tailed hawk who had nested on a ledge there with his mates for over 12 years. [December 2004]
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According to reports in the tabloids, her husband learned of her alleged affair after reportedly finding her sex diaries in August, 2006.
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Leaving CNN. Final program is August 2, 2007 [July 24, 2007].
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When she was at CBS at the same time as Meredith Vieira, they each had a husband named "Richard Cohen".
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Has followed Kathleen Sullivan into a job three times: The Health Show (1987), America This Morning (1982), and CBS This Morning (1987).
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Studied journalism at Stephens College, Missouri.
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Started job at CNN on September 11, 2001.
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News anchor for Houston, Texas CBS affiliate KHOU-TV in the early 1980s.
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Attended college on a cello scholarship; played Carnegie Hall, 1992.
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Daughter Haley Cohen (b. ~1990); sons Jared (b. ~1994), Austin (b. ~1997)
$18 Million
