Cynthia McFadden

Cynthia McFadden (born May 27, 1956) is an American television journalist who was the senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News. She was an anchor and correspondent for ABC News who co-anchored Nightline, and occasionally appeared on ABC News special Primetime. She was with ABC News from 1994 to 2014 and NBC News from March 2014 to May 2024.

Biography

Education Born in Lewiston, Maine, McFadden graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1978. She then joined the Courtroom Television Network as an anchor and producer in 1991, its inaugural year. As anchor, McFadden conducted a number of significant interviews including ones with celebrities such as Clint Eastwood, Paul McCartney and Judge Judy Sheindlin, past and present world leaders such as Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair, and five with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Move from ABC to NBC On March 29, 2014, after two decades with ABC News, with the last nine years as a Nightline anchor, McFadden left and joined NBC News.

Personal life McFadden married Michael John Davies, editor and publisher of the Hartford Courant, on September 9, 1989; they were divorced in 1996. She has a son with Foreign Affairs editor James Hoge, Spencer Graham McFadden Hoge, who was born in 1998 and named after the actor Spencer Tracy.

McFadden practices Transcendental Meditation and has supported the work of the David Lynch Foundation.

In October 2020, Town and Country magazine published an account McFadden and her son Spencer wrote about their road trip from New York City to California, where he was a student. Cine Golden Eagles (2) Ohio State Award Silver Gavels (2) from the American Bar Association Grand Award of the New York Festival Blue Ribbon of the American Film Festival Earned an Emmy in 2020