Harris Faulkner to anchor weekend ‘FOX Report’
Fox News’ Harris Faulkner has been named anchor of FOX Report weekends. Faulkner has been subbing on the show for several weeks since the departure of Julie Banderas, who is now correspondent in the FNC New York bureau.
Faulkner joined FOX News in 2005 as a correspondent and primetime news break anchor. Before FNC, Faulker was a correspondent at “A Current Affair” and before that, she worked in local news in Minneapolis, Kansas City and Greenville, North Carolina.
Says FNC chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, “Harris has done an excellent job in a variety of roles for FOX News – she handles breaking news well and exhibits great journalistic instincts. We’re proud to see that she will lead a program that is so vital to our network.”
More in the press release after the jump…
FOX NEWS NAMES HARRIS FAULKNER ANCHOR OF FOX REPORT WEEKEND
Harris Faulkner has been named the anchor of FOX Report Weekend (Saturdays & Sundays, 7-8 PM/ET), the network’s signature weekend newscast, announced Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of FOX News. Faulkner currently serves as the breaking news anchor for Happening Now.
In making the announcement, Ailes said, “Harris has done an excellent job in a variety of roles for FOX News – she handles breaking news well and exhibits great journalistic instincts. We’re proud to see that she will lead a program that is so vital to our network.”
Joining FOX News in 2005, Faulkner initially served as a correspondent and primetime news break anchor. Previously, she served as a correspondent for the newsmagazine show A Current Affair and as a substitute host for The Nancy Grace Show on Headline News. Before that, she worked as the primary evening anchor on KSTP-TV (ABC) and also hosted The Harris Faulkner radio talk show on FM107 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 1993 to 2000, Faulkner was the evening anchor for FOX 4 News in Kansas City. She began her television career at WNCT-TV (CBS) as an anchor and reporter in Greenville, North Carolina.
A recipient of six Emmy Awards, including the 2004 Emmy for Best Newscaster and Best News Special, she graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in Mass Communications.
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour general news service covering breaking news as well as political, business and entertainment news. For over 100 consecutive months, FNC has been the most-watched cable news channel in the country. Owned by News Corp., FNC is available in more than 90 million homes.
For Talking Heads, a Spot to Relax and Sip Coffee, on Webcam
So a television producer walks into a bar. He hears a singer crooning. Before long, the producer books the singer to talk about the mortgage market on his daytime talk show.
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Produced by Mike Straka, each hour of "The Strategy Room" features a host and several guests in a roundtable discussion. Maybe that’s not exactly the way things go for most bar jokes or for most talk shows. But it is standard operating procedure for Mike Straka, the producer of “The Strategy Room,” a discussion show that runs eight hours every weekday, streamed from FoxNews.com.
And thus one night at A. J. Maxwell’s, a steakhouse in Midtown Manhattan, Mr. Straka invited the lounge singer Tony D’Ville on the show. Mr. D’Ville sang a Sinatra tune and then discussed the mortgage crisis.
Fox is a latecomer to producing live news programming for the Web. CNN and ABC News have had video channels streaming online for a few years. Those webcasts mimic the format of traditional cable news channels, with a mix of anchored newscasts and specialized programs.
More About Harris
Much has been written and discussed across America about the life of military families – the travel, the uncertainty, the sacrifice. But for Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner it is also a shining example of the special bonds that form between these families, and how it can grow even stronger after the battles have been fought.
Faulkner’s Dad, Ret. Lt. Col. Bob Harris, always told his daughter "there are few things worth dying for...you, your mom and our country", she recalled in an exclusive interview with Veterans Advantage. "He’s the first miracle I ever saw in my life."
Life, for Faulkner, has continued to progress as a series of miracles, from the way her father survived three tours in Vietnam, to the present day mothering of her own child, a two year-old daughter. And life as an anchor for a major news organization often provides her the privilege to get up close with those miracles.