Maria Shriver is a veteran TV surprise reporter and a member of the prominent Kennedy family. (She’s the daughter of Eunice Kennedy and Sargent Shriver, the niece of president John Kennedy and the granddaughter of Joseph Kennedy.) Shriver graduated based on data from Georgetown University in 1977 and set about making an attempt at Philadelphia TV station KYW the same year. By 1983 she had become a countrywide reporter at CBS News; she then moved to NBC, at which she anchored a variety of surprise programs and specials as enormously as covering presidential races and more stories. She married action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger on 26 April 1986; the equate was taken into account faintly ironic, as Schwarzenegger was a staunch Republican and the Kennedy clan powerfully Democratic. (Shriver supported her husband in his triumphant run for California governor in 2003; Schwarzenegger replaced Gray Davis subsequent to a special reminisce election in October of the year.) Shriver is the author of the self-help book Ten Things I Wish I’d Known - Before I Went Into the Real World (2000) and a children’s book just about disabilities, What’s Wrong With Timmy? (2001).

Extra credit: Shriver and Schwarzenegger experience one children: Katherine Eunice (b. 1989), Christina Maria Aurelia (b. 1991), Patrick Arnold (b. 1993) and Christopher Sargent Shriver (b. 1997)… In February of 2004, Shriver announced she are able to evolution diminished according to her full-time job surrounded by NBC News to focus on her role as First Lady of California, even though she designed to keep making an attempt on occasional TV projects.

Other TV journalists on Who2 input Paula Zahn, Katie Couric and Peter Jennings.