Pierre Thomas is an American personality and a journalist by profession. He is working at the designation of senior justice correspondent at ABC News. He is PrimeTime Emmy Award recipient at least two times and has also been named “Journalist of the Year” by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Pierre Thomas Net Worth
According to Glassdoor, a journalist working for ABC News earns around $60K to $111K annually. Considering this estimation as Pierre Thomas’s salary, we can predict that Pierre would earn as much as $10 million and as little as $5 million.
| Net Worth: | $5 Million |
|---|---|
| Real Name: | Pierre Thomas |
| Birth Year: | 1962 |
| Age (as of 2024): | 62 Years |
| Birth Place: | Lynchburg, Virginia, USA |
| Height: | – |
| Wife: | Alison Thomas |
Early Life
Pierre Thomas was born in 1962, making him 62 years old as of 2024. He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and raised in Monroe, Virginia, as one of his parents’ fifth children. He is the youngest in the family, and his parents’ names are Nathaniel Thomas and Bertha Helen Brown Thomas.
Pierre graduated from Amherst County High School in 1980 and later enrolled at Virginia Tech, where he graduated in 1984 with a degree in Communication Studies. He began his career as an intern for the university’s radio station, WVTF, in nearby Roanoke, Virginia.
Career
Pierre began his professional work for The Roanoke Times and moved to The Washington Post in 1987. There, he worked for nearly ten years, where his senior, Ben Bradlee, guided and mentored him.
After that, Pierre switched jobs and became a correspondent at CNN in 1997, where he worked as a justice correspondent. In 2000, Thomas began working for ABC News. After joining the ABC News channel in 2000, he won the PrimeTime Emmy Award for covering the events of 11th September 2001.
He received another Emmy Award for covering President Obama’s inauguration in 2009. In 2012, he received the Journalist of the Year award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
He received the award for his report on the shooting of U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords and also on the breaking stories around the death of Osama bin Laden. He then received the John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award in 2015 from the Radio Television Digital News Association for contributing to the journalism industry and freedom of the Press.
Personal Life
Pierre is a married man. As Pierre Thomas states, his wife, Alison, and son, Nathaniel, are the primary inspirations behind his successful career in journalism. Recently while receiving the Paul White Award speech, he mentioned both the pillars of his life, his wife Alison and Nathaniel who supported him at every step of his life.
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Trivia
- As of 6th August 2024, Pierre Thomas is busy working with the team to look at his family tree for the project based on recovering the names of people of African descent enslaved in the U.S. before the end of the Civil War.
- He shared his journey of finding the 10 million names in the project’s wake.
- Pierre Thomas’s father would work in a factory with a 200+ degree shaker. The Thomas family, especially Pierre’s father, has seen the poverty that made Pierre’s father cut short his education and compelled him to work in a factory.
- Pierre praises his father’s efforts to overcome the family’s poverty and his son’s efforts to get good grades in school.
- Pierre’s mother believed in god, which made a strong bond within the family of five children, including Thomas.
