Sherry Margolis Biography

Sherry Margolis is an American news anchor. She is a native of Buffalo, New York. Margolis is currently a television news anchor at the Fox affiliate WJBK-TV in Detroit, MI. Her professional career to be a journalist began when she was a student at South High.

Sherry left Buffalo and arrived at WJBK-TV in 1984. She has spent 25 years at WJBK, a rare thing in a highly competitive world of television news. Sherry has won six local Emmy awards in Detroit including two for Best News Anchor.

Sherry Margolis Age

Margolis was born in 1973. However, the exact date of birth of the news anchor is not yet known to the public. As such, it is difficult to establish her actual age or when she celebrates her birthday. Nevertheless, we are keeping tabs and will update you once this information is available.

Sherry Margolis Education

Margolis attended South High School. She later graduated cum laude with a degree in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she did graduate work in Communication. Soon after college, she began her career as an anchor and reporter at Buffalo New York, WKBW-TV.
Sherry Margolis Parents and Siblings After doing our research, details about her parents are not known to the public and it is also not known if she has any siblings.

Sherry Margolis Retired

On June 24, 2020, Sherry announced that she is retiring from Fox 2 Detroit. She said the time is right now for her departure and spoke about spending more time with her family and working on projects. Margolis joined the station in 1984.

Sherry Margolis Married

Margolis was married to Wall Street Journal columnist and author, Jeffrey Zaslow. Jeff Zaslow, the best-selling author, died in an automobile crash at age 53.

Zaslow worked as a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and penned several New York Times bestsellers, including “The Last Lecture”, and “The Girls From Ames and Highest Duty”.

According to the Antrim County Sheriffs Department, Zaslow was killed in an automobile accident in northern Michigan Friday morning. It happened just after 9 a.m. on M-32, about half-mile from US-131 near Elmira. Police report he lost control of the vehicle on the snow-covered road and was hit by a semi-truck.

Sherry Margolis Daughters

They have three daughters and reside in suburban Detroit.
Sherry Margolis Still Standing, She wrote,
He was smart, kind, and compassionate … with a wicked sense of humor. I think that’s what made me fall in love with him: he always kept me laughing.

Jeffrey was also a gifted writer. He was a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of several best-selling books, including “The Last Lecture” with professor Randy Pausch.Zaslow had just published his latest book, “The Magic Room”- which he dedicated to our three daughters.

In fact, he was returning home from a book-signing event up north, in February 2012, when his car was hit by a semi-truck on an icy road. Jeff was killed instantly. And in that instant, my life, and my children’s lives were changed forever. I took three weeks off, and then I went back to work.

I never even considered not going back. My dear friends and colleagues here were part of my support system. I love my job.
My girls were old enough to be on their own and I knew I needed a reason to get up every morning. I needed to continue being me. The same person I had been, at least at work. Everyone makes their own choices and that was the choice that was right for me.

Jeff and I were married for almost 25 years and life without him has often been very painful. My focus has been my job, my friends, and most of all, my daughters. I want them to keep moving forward with their lives. I don’t want them to see themselves as victims.
Instead, I want them to feel blessed – that they were lucky to have had the best father in the world and that they’ll carry his love for them, always.

I don’t usually talk about these things publicly, but something happened recently that made me change my mind. A friend said something, innocently, that knocked me off my forward track. He said, “you really got a raw deal.” He meant it kindly but for some reason, it really affected me. I started thinking, ‘yeah, I did get a raw deal’ and I started feeling sorry for myself. That lasted for a couple of weeks, and I was miserable. But then, someone else said something that really helped.

She told me that the first thing she does every day is to run through a list of things she’s grateful for – including waking up in the morning. That flipped the switch back for me and got me back on track.
I’m sharing this story because we all go through hardships in life. And learning how to overcome adversity, can help us build resilience and make us stronger.

Sherry Margolis Fox 2

Sherry became a broadcast host and producer of a daily morning children’s television program, “The Jelly Roll Review.” Emmy-award winning anchor Margolis has been familiar to Detroit television viewers since joining the FOX 2 News team in September of 1984.
She is the co-anchor, with Kam Carman of the 5:00 AM segment of FOX 2 News Morning, and anchors the “In the News” segment from 5:30 to 9:00 AM.

She also anchors FOX 2 News at Noon and is the reporter for “Tough Stuff,” hard-hitting reports on the challenging, sometimes difficult issues facing people in today’s society. The Famous anchor has won two prestigious Edward R. Murrow regional awards for a documentary called, “Tribute to Our Troops”, not to mention she also won honors from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, and the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. Taryn Asher is also an anchor at Fox 2 news team in 2007.

Sherry Margolis Charity

Sherry is active in her community supporting organizations such as the Gleaners Food Bank, the Alzheimer’s Association, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation.

For many years, she served as host of Detroit’s broadcast of the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon.
In 2002, the University of Michigan presented her with its first annual, “Community Involvement Award” for her report on proposed government changes that threatened special education programs in Michigan schools.

Sherry Margolis Salary and Net Worth

Journalists in Detroit, in fact, earn an average of $67,000 per year. This is 13% above the national average salary in Detroit. The total annual pay, for the news anchor, ranges from $30,410 to $572,069 annually.

Although she has not shared with the public the actual figure of her salary. Further, her estimated net worth is $2 million. She has earned both named and famed through her career as a reporter and anchor in the field of journalism. Margolis has earned enough fortune to live in a luxurious life by maintaining her standard of living.