Margaret Brennan Biography
Margaret Brennan is an award winning journalist currently working as the moderator of Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan on CBS news, the network’s chief affairs correspondent and a fill-in and substitute anchor for CBS Evening News. She joined the station in July 2012 as a White House Correspondent.

Margaret Brennan Career
Brennan joined CBS News in July 2012 and reported on the white house throughout the Obama and Trump administrations for CBS programs and is also a substitute anchor on CBS this morning and the CBS Evening News. She is part of the CBS News team recognized with a 2012-2013 Alfred I. Dupont – Columbia Award for coverage of the Newtown tragedy.
Her reporting has taken her to Tehran, Baghdad, Kabul, Beijing, and Havana. In addition, she has covered diplomatic negotiations, including the nuclear deal with Iran, the chemical weapons deal in Syria, and the reopening of relations with Cuba. Brennan conducted the first US interview with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye, covering the president’s hardline policy against North Korea. The interview made headlines in Pyongyang and Seoul, where Brennan’s etiquette was the topic of a morning show.
Furthermore, she was also among the first reporters to interview Hillary Clinton about the fatal attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya. At a press conference on 9 September, 2013, she asked Secretary of State John Kerry about any possibility for the Syrian government to avoid a U.S. strike. Kerry’s answer, that Assad could “turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week” (although later his answer was retracted as “a rhetorical argument about the impossibility and unlikelihood of Assad turning over chemical weapons he has denied using” by a State Department spokesperson), led Russia’s foreign minister Sergey V. Lavrov to propose this as a solution to the crisis.
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Brennan got a promotion of the 10th moderator of Face the Nation, the CBS Sunday morning political interview program, becoming the second woman to moderate the program on 22 February 2018. On 1 October, 2024, she was one of the moderators of CBS’ s 2024 United States vice presidential debate.
Prior to joining CBS, Brennan anchored the weekday show InBusiness with Margaret Brennan on Bloomberg Television in New York for nearly three years. The show broadcast live from the New York Stock Exchange and covered the top political, economic, and global financial news impacting the marketplace. During her time in Bloomberg Television, she broadcast live from Riyadh, Dubai, Cairo, London, Dublin, Abu Dhabi, and Davos. In addition, Brennan covered top breaking news stories involving the European Debt Crisis, the largest insider trading case in U.S. history, and the BP oil spill.
Furthermore, she anchored live from Tahrir Square as Hosni Mubarak stepped down after 30 years in power. Additionally, Brennan has interviewed the International Monetary Fund’s Christine Lagarde, investor George Soros and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. She also interviewed Ireland’s Prime Minister and Dubai’s ruler during their respective debt crisis. Brennan helped anchor coverage of the station’s 2012 Republican presidential candidate debates.
Before Bloomberg, she was a CNBC correspondent contributing to various NBC News programs for over seven years. Brennan began her business news career as a producer for prominent financial journalist Louis Rukeyser in 2002. She wrote, researched and booked guests for the weekly Louis Rukeyser’s wall street program and prime time specials. In addition, Brennan later worked as a producer on Street Signs with Ron Insana. She coordinated guest bookings and produced interviews with former President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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As a CNBC correspondent, she covered the financial crisis with a focus on consumer issues. Brennan conducted interviews with former Walmart CEO Lee Scott and Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen. Furthermore, she broke the story of Circuit City liquidation in 2009 and frequently covered changing consumer trends for the network.
Brennan was born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. She graduated with highest distinction with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Foreign Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies and a minor in Arabic from University of Virginia in 2002. Brennan got recognition as an Emmerich-Wright scholar for her thesis and also studied abroad at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan on a Fulbright-Hays grant. In addition, she also received a honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Niagara University for her work in international affairs in 2015.
Brennan was named one of the top Irish Americans and one of the top 100 Irish-Americans in business and in media by Irish America magazine. In 2003, she was recognized as one of the top journalists under the age of 30 by the NewsBios/TJFR Group.
In addition, Brennan received the Fulbright Award for International Understanding in 2010. She was a recipient of an Emmy Award for “Outstanding News Special” for her coverage of the Parkland High School Shooting. She received two Emmy nominations for “Outstanding News Analysis”, for her coverage of both the COVID-19 pandemic and Iran-United States relations. Brennan further won a Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council in 2020. She received first place in the National Headliner Awards for her coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in “Facing the Pandemic”.
Margaret Brennan Age
Brennan was born on 26 March, 1980, in Stamford, Connecticut and is now 44 years old as of 2024.
Margaret Brennan Height
She stands at an average height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.7m) tall.
Margaret Brennan Education
She graduated with highest distinction with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Foreign Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies and a minor in Arabic from University of Virginia in 2002. Brennan was named an Emmerich-Wright scholar for her thesis and also got to study abroad at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan on a Fulbright-Hays grant. In addition, she also received a honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Niagara University for her work in international affairs in 2015.
Margaret Brennan Family
Brennan was born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. Her parents are Edward and Jane Brennan, an elementary school art and art history teacher in the Pennsbury, Pennsylvania school district. She is of Irish descent.
Margaret Brennan Husband
She tied the knot with her husband, Yado Yakub a Syrian-American attorney who is a judge advocate in the United States Marine Corps on 11 April 2015.
Margaret Brennan Children
Brennan is a mother of two children, two sons born in 2018 and 2021.
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