Alex Wagner or Alexandra Swe Alex Wagner was born in 1977 and she is an American Television personality at the same time liberal political commentator. She is the anchor of the daytime program called Now with Alex Wagner at the MSNBC. Alex Wagner was born in Washington DC and her mother was a Tin Swe who just moved in US from Myanmar and she became an American because of the marriage. Her father was from Iowa and he is of Irish and German descent. He is a political consultant and he co-chaired the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton.
She went to Woodrow Wilson High School and she graduated from Brown University, the year 1999 in the literature and art history. She was raised under Roman Catholic.
Wagner had worked in the cultural correspondent for Center for American Progress. Since 2003 to 2007, she was the editor in Chief for The Fader magazine and it covered music with cultural movement in the world. He was an executive director for Not On Out Watch project. This is the advocacy organization that focuses at the mass atrocities with the human rights violation.
Alex Wagner was the correspondent of the White House to the Politics Daily where she was giving the news under the AOL News. She went to The Huffington Post when it was put under AOL. Under MSNBC, Wagner has appearance in the Countdown with Keith Olbermann with The Last Word With Lawrence O’ Donnell.
From 2011, Wagner started to host Now With Alex Wagner on Weekdays. This was done originally at noon. This is a slot that was hosted before by the Contessa Brewer.
When it comes to politics, she says that she is a progressive and she believes in the Second Amendments for the US constitution. When it comes to the Israel, she says that people do not like to talk about the problem in Israel since they may be labeled anti-Semite.
In August 2014, Alex Wagner married Sam Kass, who is a White House Chef. The ceremony took place in Blue Hill At Stone Barns and at Pocantico Hills in New York. President Obama with the entire family attended the wedding since Kass is a family friend.
Barack Obama is a long time friend to Kass and he has been cooking for the family for many years now starting when they were still living in Chicago. Kass was a boyfriend to Wagner for at least a year before the media became aware of it and it became news.
In the marriage ceremony, the media personnel and the politicians were in attendance. Alex Wagner makes 400,000 dollars per show and even if she is considered to be among the best journalists, she had not got any award yet. She is reputable and she holds a good position within the industry. She has now made a name, fans and fame. For one episode, she has more than 700,000 viewers. Even if her net worth is not known, she is making at least 2 million annually from her salary.
| Birth Date: | 4 Dec, 1977 |
| Age: | 42 yrs |
| Occupations: | Journalist |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Washington, D.C. |
| residence: | Dumbo |
| Education: | Brown University |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | Journalist |
| Twitter Id: | Alexwagner |
| Spouse: | Sam Kass [M. 2014] |
| Net Worth 2021: | 3 million |
