Terry Gross Bio, Age, Wiki, Husband, Fresh Air, Interviews And Net Worth.

Publish date: 2024-05-22

Terry Gross Biography – Wiki

Terry Gross is an American radio host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air. Fresh Air is an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by NPR. Gross has been in this position since 1975 and he has conducted thousands of interviews over her 42 years at the job.

Terry Gross Age | Birthday

Gross was born on February 14, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. She celebrates her birthday on February 14th every year. Gross turned 68 years old in 2020.

Terry Gross Height

Gross is a woman of average stature. She stands at a height of 5 Feet (60 inches).

Terry Gross Family

Terry Gross Parents

Terry was born as the second child of Anne(Abrams), a Stenographer, and Irving Gross, who worked in a Family millinery business, where he sold fabric to Milliners. Gross grew up with Jewish parents, and all her grandparents were emigrants, her father’s parents are from Tarnow, Poland, and her mother’s parents are from the Russian Empire.

Terry Gross Siblings

She has an older brother called Leon j. Gross, who works as a psychometric consultant.

Terry Gross Husband

Since 1994, she has been married to Francis Davis a  jazz critic of The Village Voice. The couple has been together since 1978. Davis is Catholic while Gross is Jewish but neither of them is practicing. The couple resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and share a passion for music. The couple also has no children which Gross says was a deliberate choice on their part.

Gross was previously married to her high-school boyfriend who attended the same university. They had been married for about a year with whom she had been living with for a while. She has said that she dropped out of college in her sophomore year to hitchhike with him across the country before they were married. Gross proceeded to obtain a divorce by the time she started her radio career in 1973.

Terry Gross Salary

Through her podcast, gross has quite a great audience hence bringing some good profit, Gross is believed to receive a great amount as an annual salary of $331,000.

Terry Gross Net Worth

Though Gross is believed to bring the network great profits through her podcast, her net worth is estimated to be  $100,000 – $1million from her successful career as a journalist.

Terry Gross Education

She attended Sheepshead Bay High School from where she graduated in 1968. Gross earned a bachelor’s degree in English and a Master of Education degree in communications from the University at Buffalo. She started teaching 8th grade at an inner-city public junior high school in Buffalo in 1972.

Gross said she was ill-equipped for the job, especially at establishing discipline, and was fired after only six weeks.

Terry Gross NPR | Terry Gross NPR Podcast

She began her radio career at WBFO, an NPR CPB-funded college station in 1973. She then went broadcasting from the Main Street Campus of the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. There, she started out as a volunteer on a show called Woman Power, then co-hosted This is Radio. The normal topics of these shows were women’s rights and public affairs.

Terry Gross Fresh Air Podcast

Gross moved to WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1975 to host and produce Fresh Air, which was a local interview program at the time. Fresh Air with Terry Gross went national in 1985 were also distributed weekly by NPR. The show became a daily program two years later.

She typically conducts the interviews from the WHYY-FM studios in Philadelphia. With Gross’s subject at the studio of a local NPR affiliate convenient to them connected via telephone or satellite feed. She is not face-to-face with her subjects for the majority of these conversations.

She creates a daily show that is an hour-long, usually includes two interviews, and is distributed to over 190 NPR stations. It reaches an audience of millions of daily listeners. Many of the show’s producers and staff have been with her since the late 1970s to 1980s.

Gross appeared as a guest voice on The Simpsons as herself, in the episode “The Departed”. She was a guest lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism during the spring 1998 semester. Gross appeared on Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me and played the game “Not My Job”, answering questions about Hulk Hogan in 2015.

Terry Gross Interviews | Best Terry Gross Interviews

Some of Gross’ interviews have not gone smoothly, She asked Nancy Reagan about the lack of funding and mishandling of HIV/AIDS by her husband, President Ronald Reagan, which was not well received.

There are a few interview subjects have exited their interviews early, including Lou Reed, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, Faye Dunaway, and Monica Lewinsky.

She interviewed Fox News television host Bill O’Reilly on October 8, 2003. On February 9, 2005, she interviewed conservative author and the wife of then-Vice President Dick Cheney, Lynne Cheney. She also interviewed the former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on June 12, 2014.

Terry Gross Gene Simmons

Her February 4, 2002 interview with Kiss singer and bassist Gene Simmons began with Gross not pronouncing Simmons’ original Hebrew last name to his liking. Gene dismissively replied to her that she pronounced without “flavor” because she had a “Gentile mouth”; Gross responded that she is Jewish. During the interview, Gross asked Simmons about his studded codpiece, to which Simmons replied, “It holds in my manhood, otherwise it would be too much for you to take.”Simmons also refused to grant permission for the interview to be made available on the NPR website. It appears in Gross’ book All I Did Was Ask, and unauthorized transcripts and audio of the complete original interview are known to exist.

Terry Gross Awards and Achievements

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Quick Facts About Terry Gross

Here are some of the facts you don’t want to miss about Terry Gross.

Frequently Asked Questions About Terry Gross

Who is Terry?

She is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia.

How old is Terry?

Terry is an American born on February 14, 1951. in Brooklyn, New York City.

How tall is Terry?

Terry stands at a height of 5 Feet.

Is Terry married?

She is married to  Francis Davis, and have no children.

How much is Terry worth?

Terry has an approximate net worth ranging from   $100,000 – $1million. This amount has been accrued from his leading roles in the entertainment industry.

How much does Terry make?

Per our average wage estimates for a journalist in the United States, She receives an annual salary of  $331,000.

Where does Terry live?

Because of security reasons, She has not shared his precise location of residence. We will immediately update this information if we get the location and images of her house.

Is Terry dead or alive?

Terry is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of her being sick or having any health-related issues.

Where is Terry now?

She is still the host and co-director of the Fresh Air radio talk show.

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