Bianna Golodryga is an American journalist and former correspondent for Yahoo News and the news channel of the ABC television network. She has delighted numerous television stations with her obvious beauty over the years. Currently, she is employed at CBS News, having recently joined the network. She co-anchored the weekend version of Good Morning America on the ABC network and was also the business correspondent for ABC News. She has contributed to numerous other ABC programs, including ‘ABC World News with Diane Sawyer’ and ‘Nightline.’ Bianna has written extensively about autos, real estate, and the credit crisis. She has also provided useful suggestions for addressing financial concerns. She has covered the World Economic Forum from Davos, Switzerland and Warren Buffett’s annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska during the course of her career. In addition, she oversaw the internet media coverage of the 2008 presidential election. Her professionalism has greatly contributed to her success as a television reporter.
Youth and Early Life
Bianna was born in Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, on June 15, 1978. Her parents, Vitaly Golodryga and Zhanna Golodryga are childless. As political refugees, her parents fled the Soviet Union and relocated to Houston, Texas when she was only two years old.
Bianna attended High School for the Performing and Visual Arts for her education. She attended the University of Texas, where she majored in East European and Eurasian Studies. She studied economics at the same institution.
Bianna Golodryga’s Career
Before entering the television industry, Bianna worked in the financial services industry. In 2001, she began her career in television as a bureau producer for the cable news network CNBC. During this period of her career, she provided live coverage of the 9/11 terrorist assault and conducted a large number of interviews with prominent business leaders.
She has conducted interviews with notable figures such as President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and financier Warren Buffett.
In 2004, she became a producer and produced numerous segments of “The Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo,” the nation’s most-watched financial news program. In addition, she has conducted interviews with the world’s most prominent business and political leaders.
Bianna covered a variety of high-profile events for CNBC, such as the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. In addition to her producing duties at CNBC, she began working as an on-air journalist for the NBC Network’s financial program in 2006.
Bianna opted to leave CNBC in 2007 after working there for six years and then joined the ABC network. It wasn’t until she joined the ABC network that stardom found her. After joining the network, she experienced a remarkable change of fortune.
She presented several famous shows for ABC, including “Good Morning America.” In April 2010, she was given the opportunity to work as a co-anchor on “GMA Weekend.” Since, it has become the most popular Saturday morning news program.
She managed the program from 2007 to 2014 and appeared frequently on MSNBC’s ‘Way Too Early’ and ‘Morning Joe’. She also featured on “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams” on MSNBC. She shifted to the Yahoo network at the conclusion of 2014.
Bianna is also a member of the non-profit research organization Council on Foreign Relations. She is a regular columnist for the news-blogging website Huffington Post.
In 2017, Bianna delivered a study on US President Donald Trump’s desire to privatize the Federal Aviation Administration-managed air traffic control system. She even shed light on the proposal’s advantages and disadvantages.
In September 2017, she began working simultaneously for CBS News and CNN. She negotiated multi-year contracts with both networks, making it an uncommon arrangement. According to her contract, Bianna may contribute to any CBS news program, but must prioritize ‘CBS This Morning.’ She also serves as a substitute host for “CBS This Morning.”
She contributes reports to CBS programs and serves as an on-air journalist for ‘The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer’ on CNN.
Bianna submitted her debut story for ‘CBS This Morning’ from her hometown of Houston, where she reported on the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. She provided a live report on the water supply quality in flood-affected communities.
Bianna discussed her career and personal life in an exclusive interview with HuffPost. She admitted that she felt ashamed of her ancestry and ethnicity as a child.
Then, when maturity crept in, she opted to major in Russian studies and is currently teaching former Obama and Clinton administration official Peter Orszag Russian. Her accounts of Vladimir Putin’s influence in the US presidential election made her the center of attention at social events.
In June 2017, she interviewed William McRaven, chancellor of the University of Texas System, regarding how the Russians perceive their role in world affairs.
According to the book ‘Shattered’ by Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen, which provides insight into Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Bianna missed an opportunity to interview Clinton due to a slight misunderstanding.
When Clinton agreed to be interviewed by Bianna, her campaign press team believed she was referring to Brianna, as in Brianna Keilar, a CNN reporter. It was too late to cancel Clinton’s interview with Keilar by the time the mistake was discovered.
Bianna was unaware that she had missed a chance to interview Clinton until she read the book Shattered.
Her Legal Issues
In 2000, Bianna was ultimately cleared of driving under the influence of alcohol charges. According to court documents, she pled no contest to careless driving and avoided a 30-day jail sentence.
Her Personal Facts
Bianna married Peter R. Orszag, her long-term boyfriend. Former Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget during the Obama administration. Currently, he serves as both the Managing Director and Vice Chairman of investment banking at Lazard.
Bianna and Peter are blessed with two children: Jake and Maia.
Estimated Net Worth
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