Jane Skinner

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Jane Skinner

Jane Skinner (born February 12, 1967^[1]) is a daytime news presenter on Fox News Channel, hosting the 2:00 p.m. hour of Fox News Live and the "Skinnerville" segment on Studio B with Shepard Smith at 3:30 p.m. ET.

Skinner began her career as a political correspondent for KBJR in Duluth, Minnesota. She joined Fox News as a general reporter from WNBC-TV in New York City. Previous to that she worked at WITI in Milwaukee where she was an anchor on the evening news. She has also been a general assignment reporter for KMOV in St. Louis and WCSH in Portland, Maine.

Skinner previously hosted a program on Fox News called Sunday Best, featuring highlights from the previous week's programming on the channel. However, it was cancelled in May 2005 due to low ratings.^{[citation needed]} She was also featured on The Big Story with John Gibson but was replaced by Rudi Bakhtiar. Skinner began her current Fox News Live hosting job on September 25, 2006, as part of an FNC scheduling shuffle.

Skinner received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Northwestern University. Her father is former White House chief of staff Sam Skinner, a Republican. She is married to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell^[2] and resides in Westchester, New York with their twin daughters.