Jim Acosta’s full name is Abilio James Acosta and he is American news journalist and works as a Chief White House correspondent under CNN, before he was working as National Political Correspondent at CNN.

Jim Acosta was born to a refugee from Cuba who arrived in America at 11 years old. His father graduated at Annandale High School in the year 1989 and attended James Madison University where he did mass communication. When he was still in school, he volunteered to WXJM, a radio station run by student. He was a reporter at WSVA, a local radio station.

Jim Acosta started professional career at radio and the first job he did was with WMAl at Washington DC. In the year 1994, then he stopped to work on the radio and entered into television career. He started to work at WTTG-TV where he was a desk assistant and in 1995, he started to work before the camera when he was a substitute anchor and a reporter for WBIR-TV.

Afterwards, he joined KTVT-TV of Dallas and then joined WBBM-TV of Chicago. He then worked as a correspondent of CBS News. While at CBS, he covered the campaign of Democratic Candidate named John Kerry, the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina. He joined CNN in the year 2007 and covered the campaign of Barack Obama. In the year 2012, Jim Acosta was promoted to a role of National Political Correspondent. He went to Cuba where he was in charge of the historical trip of Obama to this island.

From his biography, Jim Acosta got married to his long time girlfriend called Sharon Mobley Stow. They got married in the year 1993 and they have two children together, a son called Peter and a daughter called Hartley. After being together for 24 years, they failed to continue in their married life and they divorced. After his divorce, there is no information if Jim has been in relationship with anyone or not.

Being a well known name in America, it is believed that he earns enough money but his net worth and salary is not yet recorded. He has been covering a number of big new and is loved by many people around the world.

When it comes to controversy, he had been called as Fake News by President Trump and he responded to him that he is also fake news on his return. Besides this, he was not in any other controversy. His eyes are brown while the hair is pepper colored. However more information about weight, height and other body measurements are not available online.

Jim Acosta is active on the social media and he has a twitter and Instagram account. On is twitter account he has over 400k followers and on the Instagram account, he has over 30K followers. He has no Facebook account.