Wolf Blitzer — $5 Million

A veteran newsman who started his career in the ’70s working for Reuters in Tel Aviv, Wolf Blitzer has been a CNN news Anchor since 1990. He has become one of the leading political news anchors at the company and has hosted the current affairs news discussion show, The Situation Room, since 2005.

Blitzer has won several awards, including the Journalists Pillar Of Justice Award. He has also built a brand so big he’s played himself in Hollywood movies such as Skyfall and Batman VS Superman: Dawn Of Justice. Blitzer also confirms that his name is not modified for TV, and his surname has been the family name for three generations.