Erin Burnett

In 2003, Erin Burnett met her husband David Rubulotta on a blind date. Rubulotta used to be a trader for Lehman Brothers and now he is a managing director for Citigroup.

The couple got engaged in September 2011, and tied the knot on December 21, 2012. She gave birth to her son, Nyle Thomas Burnett Rubulotta on November 29, 2013. On July 18, 2015, her daughter Colby Isabelle was born.

Erin Burnett was born on 2nd July 1976, in Mardela Springs, Maryland, USA. Her father is Kenneth King Burnett who was a corporate attorney, and her mother is Esther Margaret (nee Stewart).

She attended St. Andrew’s School, and after that moved to a boarding school in Middletown, Delaware which was a private co-educational college and graduated from there in 1994,

After that she also attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she studied economics and political science, and graduated with a degree in political economy. In the college, she also used to play lacrosse and field hockey.

Erin Burnett started her career as a financial analyst and worked for Goldman Sachs in the investment banking division. While she was working at Goldman Sachs, she was offered a position at CNN as a writer, and booker for CNN’s ‘Moneyline’. But she left the position to work as a vice president of Citigroup’s digital media group, CitiMedia.

After her stint with CitiMedia, she joined Bloomberg Television and started working as an anchor and stocks editor. She has also served as a host of CNBC’s ‘Street Signs’ and co-anchored ‘Squawk on the Street’ with Mark Haines from 2005 to 2011.

In 2010, she performed an investigation report on chemical giant Transammonia which was doing business in Iran. In her report, she presented that the owned subsidiary of Transammonia in US used to purchase ammonia from Iran.

Due to her investigative journalism, Transammonia had to send press release to congressional leaders stating that Transammonia’s Swiss subsidiary would end contract with Iran and shut down the business with them ‘as soon as possible’. In 2011, her investigative report was nominated for Emmy.

On May 6, 2011 Burnett left work with CNBC and joined their rival news outlet CNN on October 3, 2011. At CNN, she started hosting her own prime-time news program ‘Erin Burnett Outfront’ which is filmed at CNN’s New York City.

Erin Burnett’s career has mainly focused on investigative journalism which has brought many changes and development like the Transammonia case. She has hosted shows live from outside America and from the borders of Middle East countries, as well as China and Pakistan.

Her work has put on many important issues and has covered the problems of people living in countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, Turkey, Israeli, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Yemen, Palestinian Territories and Pakistan.