Jackie Bange

Jackie Bange is an American Journalist who works as a weekend anchor and reporter for broadcasting company WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois. She also worked as a co-anchor with Robert Jordan on newscast WGN News. She is a popular and award-winning journalist who is considered very beautiful in the news broadcasting industry.

She is happily married and has three children. She earns an average of $82,250 annually and she has an estimated net worth of $ 1 million. She is also a good athlete and has participated in seven Triathlons till date.

Jackie Bange Net Worth

Bange started her career in 1990 and is still working. She works for a very good broadcasting company and she gets an average salary of $82,250 annually. Her net worth till date is around $ 1 million.

Bange has been working in the industry for more than 20 years and she maintains a good reputation and a good outlook. She maintains her standard and she lives her life in such a way that meets the requirement of her profession and the society she socializes with.

Jackie Bange Personal Life

Bange is married to George Strickland and she has three children with him. Further, she is a mother to twins and recently welcomed her third biological child to her family.

As of now, she is happily married and there isn’t a single element in their life that would turn their relationship sour.

Before marrying George Strickland there was a rumor about Bange having an affair with her television executive producer Mr. Dale Chapman and there were different kind of news floating about them. But the relation between them did not materialize so we can say for sure that it was only a hoax which generally takes place in the life of popular people.

Apart from her social and professional life, Bange is also active in social media sites and has a huge follower on her social media profile. She has 911 followers on Twitter, around 17,500 followers on Facebook and over 1,750 followers on Instagram.

Jackie Bange Early Life, Education

Bange was born in the United States of America in 1962. The information about her parents, siblings and the exact place of her birth has not been made known to the public and to the media at large. We only know the small detail about her father being a news anchor in Florida, and Lancaster and about her mother being a weather girl.

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Bange reveals that her interest in the news broadcasting industry aroused due to her father and mother also working in the broadcasting sector.

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Bange graduated from the University of Florida and got a post-baccalaureate degree in Telecommunications. She also did her bachelors degree in Management Information Systems from Florida State University. The information regarding her school life and high school life is still unknown.

Jackie Bange Career

Bange started her career by working as a noon anchor and reporter for CBS Network’s WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach Florida. She got an opportunity to work for NBC’s channel WMAQ-TV as a general assignment reporter and weekend anchor in 1990.

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Furthermore, in August 1993, she joined WGN-TV as a general assignment reporter and became co-anchor in the WGN Morning News and worked there till October 1995. And then she worked for channel’s weekend evenings show.

Currently, she works for the WGN-TV’s primetime newscast WGN News at Nine alongside Robert Jordan.

Apart from her regular work at the various network, she also did international reports from regions including Paris and Africa and also covered local stories and news.

Jackie Bange Awards, Achievements

Bange was awarded a Regional Emmy Award in 1999 for “Best Feature Reporting” for the report she did on a group of skydivers who were trying to achieve the world record for forming the largest skydive. She was also awarded Best Hard News Feature by the Illinois chapter of the Associated Press for reporting 2005’s devastating Hurricane Katrina and the suffering it brought to people of New Orleans.

She was again awarded Peter Lisagor award in 2009 for helping a widow whose husband was killed in drunk driving by making an in-depth report and helping her to get justice.

• Best Hard News Feature
• George Strickland
• Regional Emmy Award
• television journalist
• Triathlons
• WGN-TV