Whit Johnson Bio, ABC, Age, Height, Parents, Spouse, Children, Salary, and Net Worth

Who is Whit Johnson?

American Anchor and Journalist Whit Johnson, works with ABC News where he serves the station as a journalist and co-anchor of the weekend editions. He has been working with the station since March 2018.

Whit Johnson
Whit Johnson

Whit Johnson Date of Birth / Age

Johnson is 41 years as of 2023 as he was born on June 25, 1982.

Whit Johnson Height

Johnson is 5 feet and 8 inches tall.

Whit Johnson Parents and Siblings

Johnson was brought up in San Francisco, California, where he was also born. Through a 23andMe DNA test, Johnson unintentionally discovered his father’s sibling in 2018. We will however keep on finding more on this and update this information once it’s available to the public.

Whit Johnson Spouse / Wife

Johnson is happily married to his lovely wife Andrea Fuji who is also an ABC News reporter. They got married on August 11, 2007, and live in New York. The couple wed on August 11th, 2007, and they are the proud parents of two stunning girls. While working at  ABC, she contacted Whit Johnson, the man who would become her husband. She joined KHON, the Fox affiliate in Honolulu, as a reporter after deciding to pursue her ambition of being a reporter. She later joined the Yakima, Washington, NBC affiliate. Fuji then started working for the Fox station’s Salt Lake City affiliate as both a reporter and an anchor. She then changed to CBS’s WiZ. She worked for KCBS-KCAL in Los Angeles from 2012 to 2018, however, she subsequently quit the network when her spouse got a job in New York.

Whit Johnson Kids / Children

Johnson has been blessed with two daughters. Lean Johnson, who was born on May 15, 2012, is the first; the second, who was born on July 26, 2014, is the second. The family relocated to New York in April 2018.

Whit Johnson Education

Johnson is an alumni of San Francisco State University where. Whit graduated with B.A. in Television and Radio Broadcasting. We will however keep on finding more on this and update this information once it’s available to the public.

Whit Johnson Career

At NBC station KNDO/KNDU-TV, Washington, Johnson set about his on-air career in 2005 as a weekend night reporter and host. Later, he worked as an evening anchor and daily reporter for Salt Lake City, Utah’s KSL-TV, an affiliate of NBC. As a network correspondent and associate anchor based in Washington, DC, Johnson joined CBS News in 2009. There, the majority of his reporting was on the Capitol, the White House, and international affairs. He covered Osama bin Laden’s murder and spoke with Hillary Clinton, who was the secretary of state at the time when she visited the Middle East in 2011.

Johnson began working as a general announcer and reporter for KNBC in Los Angeles in 2012. In this capacity, he covered a variety of events, including the Asiana Flight 214 tragedy at San Francisco International Airport and Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign from Boston. He joined LA’s Today in June 2014 to co-host the show with Daniella Guzman. Prior to going to Rio de Janeiro in 2016 to cover the Summer Olympics, he traveled to Sochi in 2014 to cover the Winter Olympics. He co-hosted exclusive coverage of the Los Angeles opening ceremony, which won an Emmy, in Rio.

ABC

Johnson began working as a correspondent in March 2018, according to ABC ABC News. Whit joined Good Morning America as a co-host of the weekend programs in September of that year. Johnson was ABC News’ main correspondent during the COVID-19 pandemic. On February 1, 2021, ABC announced that Johnson would become the Saturday anchor of ABC World News Tonight, replacing the outgoing Tom Llamas, but would also host Good Morning America on the weekends.

ABC News

Whit works with ABC News where he serves alongside his fellow anchors, reporters, and meteorologists such as;

  1. Robin Roberts
  2. Eva Pilgrim
  3. Kevin Newman
  4. Diane Sawyer
  5. Michael Strahan
  6. Dan Harris
  7. George Stephanopoulos
  8. Janai Norman
  9. Rob Marciano
  10. Heather Cabot
  11. Ginger Zee
  12. Amy Robach
  13. Lara Spencer 

How Much Does Whit Johnson Earn?

Johnson earns an annual salary of $54,000.

How Much is Whit Johnson Worth?

As an anchor, Johnson has been able to accumulate a net worth that is about $900,000.