Willow Bay

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Willow Bay (born Kristine Carlin Bay; December 28, 1963) is an American Television Correspondent, an editor, an author, and a former model. Bay is the Director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism She was previously a Senior Editor for the Huffington Post, and a Special Correspondent for Bloomberg Television.

Life and career

Bay was born Kristine Carlin Bay in New York, New York. She is a former fashion model, represented by Ford Models throughout her career. She was often featured in Seventeen magazine, and was the model and spokesperson for Estée Lauder cosmetics from 1983 to 1989.

Bay served as a Correspondent for NBC's Today Show. She was a co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America Sunday for four years, and a Correspondent for ABC's World News Saturday and World News Sunday. From 1991 to 1998, she was co-host with Ahmad Rashad of NBA Inside Stuff. She was an anchor for CNN, hosting two primetime programs, CNN & Entertainment Weekly and CNN & Fortune, along with CNN’s flagship financial news program, Moneyline. She was a Freelance Anchor and Correspondent for MSNBC and NBC News in 2005 and 2006. She was the Executive Producer and Host of Lifetime Television's Spotlight 25.

Bay is the author of a book titled Talking to Your Kids in Tough Times: How to Answer Your Child’s Questions About the World We Live In (2003).

At the Huffington Post, Bay served as a Senior Editor based in Los Angeles, California. She has helped manage the expansion of non-political content and new verticals for the site. In collaboration with Yahoo! News and the Huffington Post, she interviewed Warren Buffett and President Bill Clinton for the Newsmaker series.

Personal life

Bay attended Dominican Academy, an all-girls school in New York. She graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate. She earned her MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Bay has two sons with her husband, Robert Iger, the current Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, whom she married in 1995.