Who is Fox News Correspondent CB Cotton

CB Cotton is an American journalist at Fox News as a national correspondent. She covered breaking news around the United States from the station’s headquarters in New York. She most recently reported extensively on the attempted assassination of former president Donal J. Trump.

Before joining Fox News, Cotton worked at the ABC affiliate KMGH-TV in Denver, Colorado as the nighttime reporter covering law enforcement, crime, and justice. 

Age, Height

Cotton is probably in her 30s, celebrating her birthday every July 6th.

College

CB Cotton holds a Bachelor of Arts in broadcast and electronic journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Is CB Cotton Married?

Cotton is possibly single or keeping her relationship private. She rarely talks about her personal life and only shares about her journalism work.

CB Cotton Salary and Net Worth

Cotton’s actual salary is not known. However, reporters and correspondents around New York at Fox News earn an estimated annual salary of between $70k and 200k depending on their seniority.

Talking of her worth, there is no doubt that Cotton has created a sustainable livelihood from her career since graduating from college. Her career has enabled her to create a stable source of income thanks to her many years of hard work and dedication.

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CB Cotton on Fox News

Cotton joined Fox News in February 2023 and began her role immediately as a New York-based correspondent. She most recently reported extensively on the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump. She also covered the protests at Columbia University’s Campus revolving around the anti-Israel.

Career Timeline

Before joining Fox News, she worked for KMGH-TV, the ABC affiliate in Denver, Colorado. While at KMGH, Cotton was the nighttime reporter covering law enforcement, crime, and justice.

One of her most memorable events while at KMGH was covering the Boulder King Soopers supermarket shooting and the December 2021 Marshall fire.

Cotton has also filled out reports about suspected misconduct by law enforcement authorities, such as Kyle Vinson’s brutal arrest in Aurora. She has also reported on the disputed detention of then-75-year-old Karen Garner in 2020, and the impact of Elijah McClain’s death following his 2019 arrest.

Before joining KMGH, Cotton worked as a multimedia journalist at Nashville, Tennessee’s ABC station WKRN-TV. While at WKRN-TV, she produced and edited real-time videos for stories about the storms that struck Middle Tennessee in March 2020, the killings in Sumner County in 2019, and Daniel Hambrick’s shooting in 2018.

The most important part of her career happened when she was nominated for an Emmy in 2020 for the coverage she provided of the social justice marches during the summer. Her first ever job in the broadcasting industry was at NBC station WITN-TV where she worked as a reporter.

As a reporter for WITN-TV, she covered stories for Onslow County, Duplin County, Jones County, and Carteret County on television and social media, including the destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew and the controversy surrounding the US military’s nude photos.

She also reported on the disappearance and eventual death of three-year-old Mariah Woods, and the KC-130 crash that claimed the lives of sixteen service members.