Ed Gordon Biography
Ed Gordon is an American journalist who is widely known for his four-year run at BET. He was BET’s news director from 1988 to 1996. He also worked there from 2000 to 2001, hosting the talk show “BET Tonight” from 2001 to 2002 and “The Week with Ed Gordon” from 2010 to 2011.
Ed Gordon Age
Ed Gordon was born on August 17, 1960 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. I am now 62 years old.
Ed Gordon Height
Ed’s average height is 1.72 m / 5 ft 8 in.
Ed Gordon Family
Gordon’s father, Ed Gordon Jr. is a teacher. He was born in 1908 and died in 1971. He also won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Gordon’s mother, Jimmy Hunter, is also a teacher. His birth year was 1920 and he passed away in 2015.
Ed Gordon Wife
Gordon married his first wife, Karen Haney. They had a daughter named Taylor in 1993. He lived near Alexandria, Virginia, while working for BET, headquartered in Washington, DC. He also married his second wife, Leslie Howard. Ed is also a father of two children.
Ed Gordon Salary
Ed’s annual salary is $11,000.
Ed Gordon Net Worth
Gordon’s net worth is estimated to be between $1 million and $5 million.
Ed Gordon Career
He attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit. He also attended Western Michigan University, where he received his bachelor’s degree. He received a PhD in Communication and Research in 1982. Gordon began his career working at Detroit public television station WTVS.
Hosts the weekly Detroit Black Magazine. Ed also worked as a freelance reporter for the BET Network in Washington, DC. He joined BET in 1988 as host of the weekly news program BET News. Gordon’s instructions and other special features are usually created by one or two assistants.
He later joined NBC and interviewed and commented on Dateline NBC and The Today Show. Ed returned to BET after his three-year contract with NBC expired. He has also won praise for his online interviews. He later joined CBS as a correspondent on the popular news program “60 Minutes,” a foreign-only program.
Ed left BET in 2005 to work at National Public Radio. Ed Gordon’s program is called News and Notes. The program focuses on news affecting the black community. Additionally, in 2020, Gordon published The Black Conversation: On Power, Rights, and Leadership.