Charlie Sykes Net Worth, Career, Age, Bio And Family

Charlie Sykes Net Worth  $ 3 Million

Charlie Sykes is an American political commentator, writer, author, and television personality who is currently the editor-in-chief of the famous media site The Bulwark. From 1993 to 2016, he hosted a conservative talk program on WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

He also served as the editor of Right Wisconsin which was part-owned by WTMJ’s then-parent company E. W. Scripps. The name Charlie Sykes is one of the most recognizable in the ears of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.

The man has spent several decades in the media industry, serving his audience with the purest and most-deserved forms of entertainment.

This article has been put together by our team in order to shed some light on the life and achievements of one of America’s most-valued on-air personalities. You may read on to find out all you need to know about this gifted TV star.

Charlie Sykes’ Early Life & Education

Charles Jay Sykes was born on November 11, 1954, in Seattle, Washington, in the United States. He spent his early childhood in his town of birth and later grew up in New York and also in Fox Point, Wisconsin.

Charlie is the son of Jay G. Sykes and Katherine “Kay” Border. His father Jay, was a lawyer who later worked as a print journalist for a couple of small newspapers in New York before finding a permanent spot with the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1962.

Jay Sykes later joined the board of the American Civil Liberties Union Wisconsin chapter and also unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin against Martin J. Schreiber in the 1970 primary.

After Sykes graduated from Nicolet High School, he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, from which he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English in 1975. While at Milwaukee, he was a devoted member of the Young Democrats.

Following a nonreligious upbringing, he converted to Roman Catholicism when he was age 18.

Charlie Sykes’ Career

Sykes is known to have managed several careers in his lifetime. So far, he has successfully worked as a political commentator, writer, author, and television/radio personality.

On Television

In 1983, Sykes joined WISN-TV as an investigative reporter. He hosted the local Sunday morning talk program, Sunday Insight, for WTMJ-TV for more than twenty-three years starting from 1993 to 2016. He also contributed an essay to the ITV series “Declarations: Essays on American Ideals” in 1994.

On Radio

As a substitute anchor for Mark Belling at WISN in Milwaukee, Charlie Sykes began hosting talk radio in 1989. By 1992, he had his own talk show on WISN. Later, within one year, he jumped into WTMJ and hosted a mid-day program there until December 19, 2016.

In July 2005, WTMJ settled a $5,000 defamation case with Spanish editor Robert Miranda against Sykes over a November 2004 blog publication by Sykes that was a libel against Miranda.

Sykes did not favor Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. He revealed in October 2016 that he had chosen to quit his radio show for undisclosed personal reasons. In December of the same year, he wrote an op-ed in the New York Times claiming that the conservative movement had lost its aim during the referendum.

From January to April 2017, Sykes was a member of an intelligent team of hosts that combined to present a call-in talk program broadcast by WNYC public radio in New York City. Kerri Miller of Minnesota Public Radio and Brian Lehrer of WNYC were some of the radio hosts that formed the incredible team.

The show analyzed and addressed the first 100 days of ex-president Donald Trump’s new administration. In February 2018, Sykes took over as the host of The Weekly Standard Magazine’s renewed podcast ‘The Daily Regular’.

Writer and Author

Charlie Sykes is the proud founder and editor-at-large of The Bulwark, which also covers The Bulwark Podcast. He is also a regular contributor to NBC/ MSNBC, and it is authenticated information that he started his career as a writer before branching out to anything else.

When Sykes started his career as a journalist in 1975, he spent one year providing his services at The Northeast Post weekly in West Allis, Wisconsin. In 1976, he joined The Milwaukee Journal and started covering stories and events in the suburbs of the North Shore.

After spending seven years in the Milwaukee area, he moved to Cleveland as a staff writer for Cleveland Magazine. When the magazine went out of business a year after he joined, Sykes returned to Milwaukee in 1983 and assumed the position of managing editor of Milwaukee Magazine.

One year later, he became the editor-in-chief of the magazine and wrote Milwaukee Magazine profiles, commentary, and investigative posts.

Likewise, Sykes is a published author, who prioritizes education. His debut was made in 1988 when he published his first work, Profscam: Professors and the Decline of Higher Education.

He has written for Imprimis, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Sykes was also an editor of the Right Wisconsin website and WI Interest magazine

He has published nine books to date, including A Nation of Victims, Fail U, Dumbing Down Our Kids, The Hollow Men, A Nation of Moochers, The End of Privacy, and Profscam, 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School. Additionally, he was a National Review College Guide co-editor.

Personal Life & Family

Sykes has been married thrice in his lifetime. His first marriage was to Christine Libbey in 1975, and then to Diane Sykes in 1980. After their divorce in 1999, Sykes found love again and tied the knot with Janet Riordan whom he has been together since 2000.

He has a total of three children; two from his first marriage, and one from his current one. Sykes loves all his kids accordingly and plays a loving father’s role in their lives.

Charlie Sykes Net Worth

This American political commentator is said to be sitting on a net worth of $3 million, all assembled from his various professions as a writer, journalist, author, and television/radio personality.

Even though his award cabinet is empty at this time, his accomplishments as an individual and in conjunction with the teams of journalists he has worked with throughout his career are enough proof that awards do not always indicate a man’s achievements.