Steve Doocy
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| Born: | October 19, 1956 (age 50) KS, USA |
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| Occupation: | Commentator, Author, Journalist, Television personality. |
Steve Doocy, (pronounced "doo-see")(born October 19, 1956 in Algona, Iowa, but raised in rural Kansas) is an American television personality and New York Times bestselling author.
He is best known as a co-host of Fox News Channel’s (FNC) Fox & Friends morning news show. He is also an experienced weathercaster and does morning weather reports for FNC.
Prior to Fox & Friends, Doocy anchored the morning newscast on CBS-TV's flagship station WCBS-TV in New York City. Before that, he was the co-host of Wake Up America on NBC cable, the host of NBC’s nationally syndicated program House Party with Steve Doocy, a remake of the 1960s Art Linkletter show, and the host of Not Just News on Fox. For six years, Doocy was the feature reporter for WRC in Washington, D.C.. Before that he worked at television stations in Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, and Des Moines.
For four seasons Doocy was the live Times Square reporter on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve on ABC-TV. In 2004, he left being a live Times Square reporter, as he and FNC correspondent Alisyn Camerota launched All American New Year, FNC's New Year's Eve special, which they co-hosted.
Doocy has received eleven Emmy Awards for feature stories as well as the Associated Press’ Feature Reporter of the Year Award. He was also recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, with their Headliner Award.
At the University of Kansas, he was a news correspondent for the National Public Radio station KANU-FM, and also worked on-air at college station KJHK-FM where he served as the station manager and a variety of other posts before graduation with a B.A. in journalism. Doocy began his television career as a part time weekend weatherman at KTSB-TV(Now KSNT-TV-Topeka). He progressed to statehouse reporter and when he left the station plastered the then attorney general of Kansas Bob Stephan with a cream pie. He later worked television reporter jobs in Iowa and Missouri. He also hosted PM Magazine in Wichita and Kansas City. Before he moved to Washington, D.C., he worked occasionally as a production assistant on ABC's Wide World of Sports and Monday Night Football.
Doocy lives in Wyckoff, New Jersey, with his wife, Kathy, and their three children, Peter, Mary, and Sally. He is a practicing Roman Catholic and a lector in his local parish. He is also a member of the Knights of Columbus of Bergen County, New Jersey.
In October 2006, Doocy's first book, The Mr. and Mrs. Happy Handbook, a humor book about marriage and family life became an instant New York Times bestseller. It was published by William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins.
During his career Doocy has covered spot news, natural disasters, and the administrations of presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, and George Bush. He has also reported from the national conventions of both major political parties and personally reported on every major election cycle since 1986.
Doocy has been involved extensively in fundraising for the poor and disadvantaged, he has helped build homeless shelters in northern New Jersey, stock food pantries around New York City, and was a national spokesman for the March of Dimes.
He has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and has been spoofed on NBC's Saturday Night Live, E Channel's Talk Soup, Comedy Central's Colbert Report, and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
