Brian Patrick Stelter (born September 3, 1985) is an American TV anchor who is the chief media correspondent for CNN and host of the CNN program Reliable Sources. Stelter is a former media reporter for The New York Times and editor of TVNewser.
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Born | Brian Patrick Stelter September 3, 1985 Damascus, Maryland, U.S. |
Education | Towson University (BA) |
Employer | CNN |
Spouse(s) | Jamie Shupak (m. 2014) |
Stelter was born on September 3, 1985,[1] in Damascus, Maryland, the son of Donna and Mark Stelter.[2] He attended Damascus High School, graduating in 2003,[3] followed by Towson University where he served as editor-in-chief of The Towerlight from 2005 to 2007. While still a student, he created TVNewser, a blog about television and cable news which he later sold to Mediabistro and became a part of the Adweek blog network.[4]
After graduating from college in May 2007, Stelter joined The New York Times as a media reporter in July of that year, aged 22.[5]
In November 2013, he became the new host of CNN's Reliable Sources and also chief media correspondent.[6][7]
Stelter was raised Methodist, and is non-religious.[8] Stelter dated CNBC anchor Nicole Lapin in 2011.[9] He stated he had to inform his editor of the relationship, and he agreed not to cover CNBC while they were dating.[10]
On February 22, 2014, he married Jamie Shupak,[11] a traffic anchor for NY1.[12][13] The couple married in a Jewish ceremony, and plan to raise their children in Shupak's Jewish faith.[8] Together, they had a daughter, born in May 2017,[14] and a son, born in August 2019.[15] They live in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.[16]
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