A few weeks into her first job at KDKA-TV in 2003, Kristine Sorensen was standing in Wirt County, West Virginia, covering the homecoming of rescued soldier Jessica Lynch. It was one of the biggest stories in the world, and she was the new face on the Pittsburgh night shift.
More than 20 years later, she’s still at the same station, anchoring the afternoon news and telling the Kidsburgh stories Pittsburgh families share with each other. She’s married to KDKA investigative reporter and radio host Marty Griffin, they have three children, and she holds degrees from the College of William & Mary and Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.
Search her name and you’ll find dozens of “wiki” pages that agree on almost nothing: her age, her pay, her net worth, even the day she started at KDKA. This guide sorts out what’s documented, what’s only repeated, and what nobody has confirmed.
Quick Answer
| Question | Answer | How sure are we? |
|---|---|---|
| Who is she? | Anchor and reporter at KDKA-TV (CBS Pittsburgh) | Confirmed |
| Age | Many sites say she was born September 23, 1971, which would make her 55 (unverified) | Repeated, not confirmed |
| Husband | Marty Griffin, KDKA investigative reporter and KDKA Radio host | Confirmed |
| Children | Daughters Sophia and Chloe, and a son, Vincent | Confirmed |
| Education | Bachelor’s in Government with a dance minor (William & Mary); Master’s in Journalism (Northwestern Medill) | Confirmed |
| At KDKA since | April 2003 | Confirmed |
| Awards | Mid-Atlantic Emmy, Edward R. Murrow Award, AP Award, Paramount Impact Award, Bill Burns Award | Confirmed |
| Net worth | Often listed around $2 million | Unconfirmed estimate |
| Salary | Not public | Online figures conflict |
| Still at KDKA? | Yes, per station material from August and October 2026 (unverified) | Recent, taken from station sources |
A note on money: KDKA doesn’t publish anchor pay, and Kristine hasn’t shared her finances. Every salary and net-worth figure online is a guess. This guide labels each one as such.
Table of Contents
- Online claims vs. the record
- Who Is Kristine Sorensen?
- Age and Birthday
- Early Life and Education
- Career
- Awards and Achievements
- Beyond the Anchor Desk
- Husband and Children
- Net Worth and Salary
- Where Is She Now? What Happened?
- How to Follow Her Work
- Key Facts
- FAQs
- Conclusion
Online Claims vs. the Record
This is the part most pages skip. Here’s how the most common claims hold up.
| Claim you’ll see | What the record shows |
|---|---|
| Born September 23, 1971, in Winter Park, Florida | Her official bio lists Winter Park as her hometown. The birth date appears only on bio sites, with no source. |
| Joined KDKA on April 3, 2003 | The station’s own 20-year feature says April 2, 2003. |
| Salary of $72,685, about $80,000, about $110,000, or $50,000 to $150,000 | Five sites, four different answers, and none cite a source. |
| Net worth of $2 million (or $1 million to $5 million) | Repeated across sites, but no source and no method. |
| Married in 2003 (or around 2004) | Sites disagree and none cite a source. |
| Master’s degree from Northwestern Medill | Confirmed by her official CBS Pittsburgh bio. |
| Paramount Impact Award in 2022 | Confirmed by the same bio. |
| Worked in Jacksonville, Dayton and Little Rock before Dallas | Appears on one competitor page. Not in her official bio, which only says Dallas. |
| She left KDKA, or had a health scare | No credible report found. |
Who Is Kristine Sorensen?
Kristine Sorensen is an American broadcast journalist who joined KDKA-TV, the CBS-owned station in Pittsburgh, in April 2003. Before that she was a reporter and anchor in Dallas, Texas.
Three things define her in Pittsburgh. She’s been a fixture on the station’s afternoon newscasts for years. She hosted the talk show Pittsburgh Today Live for 11 years. And she reports Kidsburgh stories: positive, practical pieces about kids and families in the region.
Does she have a Wikipedia page? I couldn’t find a dedicated one. Marty Griffin’s Wikipedia entry lists her as his spouse, and her official biography sits on the CBS Pittsburgh site.
Kristine Sorensen’s Age and Birthday
KDKA doesn’t publish her birth date. The date you’ll see most often, September 23, 1971, comes from celebrity-bio sites that cite nothing. If it’s right, she turned 55 in September 2026 (unverified).
Why be cautious? Other pages have given a different birth year entirely (one auto-generated page said 1983, which can’t fit a woman who was already anchoring in Dallas before 2003). And plenty of on-air journalists simply keep their birthdays private.
Treat the 1971 date as plausible given her career timeline, but unconfirmed.
Early Life and Education
Where she’s from
Her official CBS Pittsburgh bio lists her hometown as Winter Park, Florida. An older version of her station bio also named Dallas, Johnson City (Tennessee), Chicago, Williamsburg (Virginia) and Milwaukee among the places she’s lived. That’s a familiar pattern in local news: a few stops, then a bigger market.
Nothing reliable is public about her parents or siblings. Pages that describe a “Norwegian-American family” or “relatives” are guessing.
Education
Her official bio spells it out:
- Bachelor’s degree: Government, with a minor in dance, from the College of William & Mary in Virginia
- Master’s degree: Journalism, from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism
- Also: a graduate marketing certificate from Southern Methodist University, and past teaching as an adjunct professor at Point Park University
Here’s my read, and it’s only that: a government major gives you a feel for how public institutions work, which helps when you’re covering a county budget fight at 5 p.m. The dance minor probably didn’t hurt on camera either. She hasn’t said so herself.
Kristine Sorensen’s Career
Dallas first
Before Pittsburgh, she worked as a reporter and anchor in Dallas, Texas. Some sites name a specific station, but KDKA’s own materials only say “Dallas,” so that’s as far as this article goes.
April 2003: a big first story
She was hired as a nightside reporter and weekend evening anchor, paired with Don Cannon. Just a few weeks in, she was sent to Jessica Lynch’s hometown in Wirt County, West Virginia, and followed the story for months. Lynch had been held as a prisoner of war in Iraq, and the whole country was watching.
The 5 p.m. desk
After about three years on weekends, she moved to weekdays. On May 1, 2006, she began co-anchoring KDKA-TV News at 5 with Ken Rice. By 2023 they’d been together 17 years, which the station called Pittsburgh’s longest-serving news anchor team.
Ken Rice’s official bio, last updated around 2024, still lists him as co-anchoring the weeknight 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. I couldn’t find a current source naming who sits beside Kristine today, so this article doesn’t say.
Pittsburgh Today Live
She hosted the show for 11 years, often alongside Jon Burnett. It won an AP Award for best news talk show. It also changed someone’s career: KDKA reporter Meghan Schiller has said she asked Kristine about internships after appearing as a guest on the show, and that conversation started her path at the station.
Kidsburgh
Kidsburgh is a partnership between KDKA and Kidsburgh.org built around good news for kids and families. It’s the clearest window into how she works.
Three pieces she submitted for her Emmy show the range:
- A crossing guard, Cathy Gamble, who sings children across the street
- A boy with autism who learned to speak with a special iPad from Variety the Children’s Charity (Kidsburgh noted the story brought Kristine to tears)
- A look at what it’s like to be a local child actor in CLO’s A Musical Christmas Carol, where her own daughter was in the cast
Kidsburgh reported that the crossing guard and iPad stories each passed one million views on the CBS News Facebook page. CBS Pittsburgh’s bio says the iPad story has been seen by more than 2 million people.
What makes the format useful, not just sweet? Kidsburgh’s team says she looks for stories that give kids a better shot at success, and it describes one reader, a grandfather, asking for more details about a fishing program after she aired it. That’s the difference between a feel-good clip and a story people act on. Kidsburgh’s director, Yu-Ling Cheng, credits her empathy, and a Kidsburgh writer says parents trust her partly because she’s a parent too. Those are opinions, but the grandfather example is a concrete result.
One of her favorite stories went viral and helped people around the world, per Kidsburgh’s write-up of her Bill Burns Award, and she followed up on it a year later.
Radio
In 2023 she was joining Marty Griffin once a week on his KDKA NewsRadio morning show. By 2024 she was sharing Kidsburgh stories every week on 100.7 Star and KDKA Radio.
The anchor desk now
In 2024 she anchored the 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. news. The most recent items are covered under “Where Is She Now?” below.
What the timeline shows
Local TV anchors often move between markets every few years. Kristine has now spent more than two decades at one station. That’s rare, and it’s probably why Pittsburgh viewers feel they know her. (That’s an observation about the industry, not a quote from her or the station.)
Career timeline
| Year | Milestone |
|---|---|
| Before 2003 | Reporter and anchor, Dallas, Texas |
| April 2, 2003 | Joins KDKA-TV; first big story is Jessica Lynch’s homecoming |
| 2003 to 2006 | Weekend evening anchor, then moves to weekdays |
| May 1, 2006 | Begins co-anchoring KDKA-TV News at 5 with Ken Rice |
| 2019 | Wins an Emmy for her Kidsburgh series, per CBS Pittsburgh |
| 2022 | Paramount Impact Award |
| 2023 | Marks 20 years at KDKA |
| Sept. 17, 2024 | Receives the Bill Burns Award |
| Aug. 11, 2026 | Anchors the 4 p.m. newscast that debuts KDKA’s AR/VR studio (unverified) |
| Oct. 16, 2026 | Byline on the Joe Manganiello interview (unverified) |
Awards and Achievements
| Honor | Details |
|---|---|
| Mid-Atlantic Emmy | Features Reporter for Human Interest Stories, for her Kidsburgh reports; CBS Pittsburgh dates the Emmy to 2019 |
| Edward R. Murrow Award | For reporting, per her station bio |
| AP Award | For hosting Pittsburgh Today Live, named best news talk show |
| Paramount Impact Award | 2022; one of only five recipients across parent company Paramount, in part for the Ukraine fundraising club she and her son started at his middle school |
| Bill Burns Award | Presented September 17, 2024, at the Art Rooney Awards Dinner at Acrisure Stadium, honoring her journalism and community impact |
Her Emmy acceptance, as Kidsburgh reported it, was short and direct: she said she felt honored to tell positive stories about kids and families. That’s still the best summary of her beat.
Beyond the Anchor Desk
Dance. She studied dance from childhood and performed with dance companies for ten years. She served on the Board of Trustees of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre for ten years and has written about dance for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In 2013 she performed a solo in a Bodiography Contemporary Ballet show at the Byham Theater.
Community. Her bio names the March of Dimes, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network and Variety the Children’s Charity as causes she supports. The Ukraine club she and her son started at his school raised money for children there, and Kidsburgh’s write-up mentions the student-run #bethekindkid fundraiser too.
Teaching. She’s taught as an adjunct professor at Point Park University.
Her favorites, per her station bio
The official bio includes a fun “favorites” list. It’s the closest thing to a personal interview you’ll get without watching her “22 Questions” video on CBS Pittsburgh.
| Category | Her pick |
|---|---|
| Movie | The Sound of Music |
| Music | The Les Misérables Broadway soundtrack |
| TV show | CBS Sunday Morning |
| Book | The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver |
| Hobbies | Tennis, crafts, skiing, book club, gardening |
| Sports team | The Steelers |
| Local restaurant | Cucina Bella in Bridgeville |
| Historical figure | Walt Disney |
| Favorite Pennsylvanian | Martha Graham, dancer |
| Vacation spot | Tahiti |
| Guilty pleasure | Cool Ranch Doritos |
| Cats or dogs | Cats |
| Morning or night person | Morning person |
| Star Trek or Star Wars | Star Wars |
Her chosen quote is “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent,” attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt.
Husband and Children
Marty Griffin
Her husband is Marty Griffin, a Pittsburgh-born investigative reporter who hosts The Inside Story with Marty Griffin on KDKA Radio. Wikipedia lists his birth date as June 12, 1959, and says he returned to Pittsburgh in 2003 to work at KDKA-TV and KDKA Radio. They worked at the same station for several years, and they still appear together on KDKA Radio.
When did they marry? Sites disagree: one says 2003, another implies about 2004 (both unverified). I couldn’t find a primary source, so this article leaves the year open.
Children
Kristine and Marty have three children: daughters Sophia and Chloe, and a son, Vincent, according to her KDKA author bio. Her kids turn up in her work now and then, as in the Christmas musical piece and the Ukraine fundraiser. This article doesn’t publish their birth years or schools. Some celebrity sites do, but these are kids, not public figures, and that’s a line worth drawing.
Her family of origin
Parents and siblings: not publicly documented in reliable sources.
Net Worth and Salary
Here’s where most pages claim more than they know. The claims table near the top shows the spread: a $2 million net worth on most pages, $1 million to $5 million on others, and salaries from about $50,000 to $150,000. The sites don’t agree with each other, and none show their work.
How to read a “net worth” number
Three quick checks work on any celebrity page:
- Does it name a source? Pay data comes from filings, contracts or the person. “Estimated” with nothing behind it isn’t data.
- Do sibling pages agree? If five pages give five salaries, none of them is measuring anything.
- Does the math show? Net worth means assets minus debts. Nobody outside her household can see either side.
What can be said
Her documented income comes from her job as a KDKA anchor and reporter, plus her radio segments. She has past adjunct teaching work. No business ventures, books or property holdings are publicly documented. Pittsburgh is a mid-sized market and she has 23 years at one station, but neither fact tells you what she earns.
Where Is Kristine Sorensen Now?
She’s still on KDKA. A CBS Pittsburgh press release says the station launched a new AR/VR news studio on August 11, 2026, during the 4 p.m. newscast she anchored (unverified; it comes from the release). On October 16, 2026, CBS Pittsburgh published her interview with actor Joe Manganiello about his health journey (unverified).
What happened to Kristine Sorensen?
I found no credible report that she left KDKA, and no news report about a health problem. Searches for “leaving KDKA” and “what happened to Kristine Sorensen” mostly turn up auto-generated pages and old Q&A fragments, not news. A few things can make viewers wonder: her slot has moved between the noon, 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. newscasts over the years, and other KDKA anchors have left, which gets mixed into those search results.
How to Follow Her Work
Her CBS Pittsburgh page lists her official channels: Facebook (KristineKDKA), X (@kristinekdka) and Instagram (@kristinesorensentv). Her station email is listed on that page too. For Kidsburgh stories, watch KDKA’s afternoon newscasts or listen for her weekly segments on KDKA Radio and 100.7 Star.
Key Facts
- Name: Kristine Sorensen
- Job: Anchor and reporter, KDKA-TV (CBS Pittsburgh)
- At KDKA since: April 2003
- Known for: Pittsburgh Today Live (11 years) and Kidsburgh stories
- Husband: Marty Griffin
- Children: Sophia, Chloe and Vincent
- Education: William & Mary (Government, dance minor); Northwestern Medill (Master’s); SMU marketing certificate
- Honors: Mid-Atlantic Emmy, Murrow, AP Award, Paramount Impact Award, Bill Burns Award
- Age: Unconfirmed (1971 birth date widely repeated)
- Net worth: About $2 million (unconfirmed estimate)
FAQs
How old is Kristine Sorensen?
KDKA hasn’t published her age. Many sites say she was born September 23, 1971, which would make her 55 (unverified).
Who is Kristine Sorensen’s husband?
Marty Griffin, an investigative reporter at KDKA-TV and host on KDKA Radio.
How many children does she have?
Three: Sophia, Chloe and Vincent.
Where did Kristine Sorensen go to college?
She earned a bachelor’s degree in Government, with a minor in dance, from the College of William & Mary, and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern’s Medill School.
Is Kristine Sorensen still on KDKA?
Yes, based on station material from August and October 2026 (unverified).
What happened to Kristine Sorensen?
No credible report shows she left KDKA or had any health issue.
What is her net worth?
No confirmed figure exists. Bio sites guess anywhere from $1 million to $5 million, most often $2 million.
How much does she make?
It isn’t public, and the online guesses contradict each other.
What awards has she won?
A Mid-Atlantic Emmy, an Edward R. Murrow Award, an AP Award, a Paramount Impact Award and the Bill Burns Award.
What is Kidsburgh?
A Pittsburgh-focused outlet for positive stories about kids and families. Kristine reports its stories on KDKA and on the radio.
Who co-anchors with her?
Ken Rice co-anchored the 5 p.m. news with her from 2006, per the station’s 2023 feature. I couldn’t confirm the current lineup.
Does she have a Wikipedia page?
I couldn’t find a dedicated page. Marty Griffin’s page lists her as his spouse.
Conclusion
What’s solid about Kristine Sorensen is her work: more than 20 years at one Pittsburgh station, a long run beside Ken Rice, 11 years of Pittsburgh Today Live, and Kidsburgh stories that travelled far beyond the region. The Emmy, the Murrow and the Bill Burns Award are on the record.
What isn’t solid is the stuff celebrity sites love: a precise age, a salary, a net worth. Those are estimates at best, and the sites can’t even agree with each other. For anything current, her CBS Pittsburgh page and KDKA’s own reporting beat any bio site.
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