Elizabeth Palmer Biography
A native of Canada, Elizabeth Palmer is a television journalist and reporter working as a CBS News senior foreign correspondent stationed in London. She has worked for the network since August 2000, where she was first stationed in Moscow.
Elizabeth Palmer Age/Birthday
Palmer is a very private person. As a result, she rarely discloses private information like her date and year of birth. Her age, therefore, remains unknown but we will update you as soon as it is available to the public.
Elizabeth Palmer Height
Palmer stands at a height of 1.65 m. However, she has not disclosed any information concerning her weight as well as her other body measurements. We are nevertheless keeping tabs on her and will update this information as soon as it has been made available to the public.
Elizabeth Palmer Family
Palmer was born in London, England, but later her family immigrated to Canada when she was a child. Although, she likes to keep her personal life away from the public hence has not yet disclosed the identity of her parents or her siblings. We will update the details as soon as it has been made available to us.
Elizabeth Palmer Husband
Palmer is a married woman, married to her husband Luc Laporte. They have two children, a son Zachar Laporte and a daughter Chloe Laporte who studies in Montréal. The family resides in London.
Elizabeth Palmer Education
Palmer earned a bachelor’s degree in English linguistics from the University of British Columbia in 1976 and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Cardiff in Wales in 1979.
Elizabeth Palmer Career
Palmer is a senior international reporter for CBS news located in London. She has been a CBS News reporter since August 2000, when she joined the network after six years in Moscow. Her reporting may be found on all CBS News programs and platforms, including “CBS Evening News,” “CBS This Morning,” and CBSN, the company’s 24-hour streaming news service.
Palmer has spent the previous two decades reporting on the crises in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, as well as political and economic news from Europe and Asia. Also, she has reported on and from Iran on a regular basis and is one of the few Western journalists to visit Iran’s nuclear facilities.
She went to Libya in 2011 to cover the revolt against Muammar Ghadafi and brought back ground-breaking news. She went on a tour of the residence at the American consulate in Benghazi a few months later, where US Ambassador Chris Stevens was assassinated. Later, while sipping mango juice at a café, I spoke with the Islamist commander who was later jailed for plotting the assault.
Palmer followed Yemen’s war in 2018, traveling deep into Houthi territory to record severe starvation and the catastrophic impact of Saudi bombing campaigns. She managed to corner Russian President Vladimir Putin in his ice hockey suit, rink-side at a Russian arena, in 2017 to inquire about President Donald Trump’s dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey. Palmer was in Paris during the 2015 Bataclan music club tragedy, and earlier in her tenure at the network, she covered the Chechen War extensively, including the slaughter of schoolchildren by Chechen rebels.
Palmer received the Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Award in 2018 for her reporting on the Syrian siege of Aleppo. Her reportage of the Beslan school hostage situation in Russia earned her the Sigma Delta Chi Award in 2005. She has also received a number of Emmy nominations for both news and feature pieces. Also, she has covered everything from the oil sector to sports throughout the years.
Elizabeth Palmer Net Worth
Palmer has an estimated net worth of $1.7 million. However, her annual salary is currently under review and will soon be updated.
