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CNN anchor Dana Bash has seen her profile with the network grow in recent years. She says her commitment to the craft has been a driving factor in that growth.
In a profile with The Wall Street Journal, Bash noted that her rise through the ranks at CNN has not been a quick one.
“I did not have a meteoric rise,” Bash sad, noting that she began at the network in 1993. “I had a climb at a glacial pace.”
She joked that she did everything at CNN other than hold a camera as she rose through the ranks after beginning her tenure in the network’s tape library.
Today, Dana Bash is the co-anchor of State of the Union, as well as anchor of the weekday midday program Inside Politics. Additionally, she moderated the network’s presidential debate alongside Jake Tapper earlier this year. The duo famously did not fact-check Donald Trump or Joe Biden during the event, arguing that it was the candidate’s job, not the moderator, to call the other out for obvious falsehoods.
Bash and Tapper received both praise and strong criticism from each side of the political aisle for the event. But the CNN anchor shared her belief that being viewed as an unbiased journalist is a top priority for her.
“I genuinely feel like the perception of me and how I [present] myself as an objective reporter maybe matters more than anything else,” she said.
