Chris Wallace - Biography & Images
Christopher Wallace – born October 12, 1947 – is a broadcast journalist.
He is known for his tough and wide-ranging interviews, for which he is often compared to his father, 60 Minutes journalist Mike Wallace.
Over his 50-year career in journalism he has been a correspondent, moderator, or anchor on CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox News, and now CNN.
Wallace has won three Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a George Polk Award, the duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award, and a Paul White lifetime achievement award.
As a teenager, Wallace became an assistant to Walter Cronkite during the 1964 Republican National Convention.
After graduating from Harvard University, he worked as a national reporter for The Boston Globe where he was described as an “aggressive and ambitious reporter”.
After seeing the impact television had on news at the 1972 Republican National Convention, he focused on working on broadcast news, first at NBC (1975–1988), where he served as a White House correspondent alongside contemporaries CBS’s Lesley Stahl and ABC’s Sam Donaldson.
Wallace also worked the anchor for NBC Nightly News and host of Meet the Press.
He then worked for ABC, where he served as an anchor for Primetime Thursday and Nightline (1989–2003).
In 2022, he began hosting a new interview series titled Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? which airs on CNN and HBO Max.
