Former CNN star Jim Acosta marries PBS reporter Liz Landers six months after they got engaged in Hawaii
Former CNN star Jim Acosta has tied the knot with PBS NewsHour’s Liz Landers.
The two wed at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia, Sunday night, Acosta, 55, told The Washingtonian.
Photos of the ceremony were shared on social media.
The couple have managed to keep their relationship relatively under wraps, after meeting at CNN several years ago.
Acosta, at the time, was CNN’s chief White House correspondent.
Landers started at the network as a freelance news assistant in 2013 but moved to Washington to become the network’s White House producer in 2017. She became a Capitol Hill reporter the following year.
Acosta told the Washingtonian that his first impression of Landers, 35, was that she was a ‘tenacious reporter.’
The pair also revealed they got engaged during a trip to Hawaii six months ago.
Ex-CNN star Jim Acosta has tied the knot with PBS NewsHour’s Liz Landers over the weekend
PBS Newshour White House Correspondent Liz Landers, 35, met Acosta while working at CNN several years ago. She joined the network as a freelance news assistant in 2013, before moving to DC to cover Washington in 2017
At the time, Acosta was sipping a tropical themed beverage as he called into former colleague Don Lemon’s New Year’s Eve web show.
He claimed he was vacationing there to get ‘as far away’ from Donald Trump as possible while still being able to ring in the New Year in the US.
He left CNN last year after refusing to take part in a reshuffle that would have seen his morning show moved to midnight. Trump was sworn into office just days earlier. Acosta said he would refuse ‘to bow down to a tyrant’ on-air.
Acosta told the Washingtonian that he and Landers are set to honeymoon in Capri.
The couple were spotted together at a kickoff event for White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend in April of last year.
They were also seen at the YouTube/Meridian International Center/C-SPAN reception this year, in April as well.
Acosta has two children with his first wife, Sharon Mobley Stow, from whom he split in July 2017.
Landers, 35, left CNN for Vice in April 2019. She was hired as a White House correspondent at PBS NewsHour in September 2025.
At the time, Acosta was the network’s White House correspent. The two have kept their relationship relatively private
The couple were spotted together at a kickoff event for White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend in April of last year
Acosta posted photos of the ceremony on Instagram Sunday and Monday
She said her first impression of Acosta was ‘less serious and funnier in person than he was on TV.’
Acosta posted photos from the ceremony on Instagram.
Multiple showed the couple sharing their first dance. Around 150 people were present for the ceremony.
