Like Savannah Guthrie, her ex-husband Mark Orchard was also married multiple times. Here's all about his first wife, Anne Kornblut.
American broadcast journalist, Savannah Guthrie, and her family are currently enduring a harrowing crisis following the abduction of her mother, Nancy Guthrie. The 84-year-old was forcibly taken away from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on the night of January 31, 2026 (ET). Recently, the investigation of the case reached a breakthrough when they recovered video footage of a person of interest. As the issue gained widespread traction, interest in Savannah's personal life was sparked. Recently, details of her ex-husband, Mark Orchard and his first marriage have surfaced.
Mark Orchard is a veteran journalist and a seasoned television news producer with a career spanning several major international networks. He spent a decade at Al Jazeera (2006–2016), serving as a senior news editor for Al Jazeera English and later as an executive producer for Al Jazeera America. Earlier in his career, he worked as a White House producer for the BBC, covering the first term of President, George W Bush. Since 2016, Mark has served as a senior broadcast producer for the investigative program, Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson. Regarding his personal life, Mark Orchard had two high-profile marriages, first with Anne Kornblut and later with Today Show co-anchor, Savannah Guthrie.
Mark Orchard and Savannah Guthrie's marriage and split are highly publicised; however, his first marriage to Anne Elise Kornblut remains a lesser-known part of his life. Anne is an American journalist and current Vice President of Global Curation at Meta (formerly Facebook). She is highly accomplished in her field, having served as the deputy national editor at The Washington Post. She led the team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the Edward Snowden NSA revelations. Anne has also tried her hands on non-fiction writing. She wrote the book, Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win.
The story of Mark Orchard, 54, and Anne Kornblut was rooted in the world of political and international journalism. The former couple met while both were working as journalists in Washington, D.C. At the time of their wedding, Anne was the White House correspondent for The Boston Globe, while Mark served as a senior producer for the BBC News Washington bureau.
Mark Orchard and Anne Kornblut tied the knot in 2001 amid their close friends, family and colleagues. The specifics of the marriage date are unknown; however, the details of the ceremony was reported by The New York Times on September 2 of the same year. They reportedly were together for approximately eight years before divorcing in 2005. Following her divorce from Mark, she married Jon Cohen in July 2010. Jon is her former Washington Post colleague and current Vice President at SurveyMonkey. Mark also remarried, reciting vows with NBC News anchor, Savannah Guthrie, in December 2005. That marriage ended in a divorce as well.
Savannah Guthrie has kept the specific reasons for her 2009 divorce from Mark Orchard strictly private, describing the details as "too personal and too embarrassing" to share publicly. While she has never assigned blame to her ex-husband, she discussed the emotional toll of the split on Monica Lewinsky's Reclaiming podcast in 2025. Savannah described the divorce as "horrible and sad" and noted that she took years to recover from the heartbreak. During the split, she was 36 and felt that she had "ruined [her] life" and lost her chance to have a family. Admitting having felt like a failure back then, she stated:
"It was horrible and sad, and it broke my heart, and it took me years to recover. And I'm not blaming anyone, but I don't really want to get into it."
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