| Harris Faulkner | |
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| Born | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Occupation | Fox News anchor, breaking news reporter. (Fox News Channel) |
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Harris Faulkner is an American newscaster for Fox News Channel. She previously presented Fox News Live headline updates during the 6:00 p.m.–11:30 p.m., then briefly 12:30 a.m. ET hours weekdays. She has been working at the breaking news desk between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. She also fills in for Shepard Smith as a substitute anchor on The Fox Report, and hosts Fox News Extra segments that air on the international feed of Fox News. She has been a regular guest-panelist on Fox News Channel's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Faulkner is also a motivational speaker and works for various charitable causes.
She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, at Fort McPherson, where her father was a United States Army aviator. The family soon moved to Germany for over three years until 1969, when the family returned to the United States.
Faulkner studied business economics and mass communications at the University of California Santa Barbara. After graduation she worked as a junior accountant before becoming a freelance writer for L.A. Weekly, contributing as a business writer. She started in TV at KCOP, Channel 13 in Los Angeles, then moved to Greenville, North Carolina to work at WNCT-TV, then Kansas City's WDAF-TV Channel 4. She lasted in Kansas City eight years and had a falling out with management after anchoring the primetime newscast between 1992 and 2000, and then the Twin Cities' KSTP-TV. In the Twin Cities she became part of an evening anchor team, helping to boost the ratings significantly. She then moved on to the US national stage as part of the Fox News cable channel.
Faulkner has received six Emmy Awards including the 2005 Emmy for Best Newscaster and Best News Special. Along with Kent Ninomiya, she was head anchor for KSTP-TV's 6pm and 10pm news broadcasts until 2004, when the pair were simultaneously let go by the station. She was a correspondent for the 2005 revival of the newsmagazine A Current Affair until its cancellation in October of the same year.
Near the end of 2010, she replaced Julie Banderas as anchorwoman of Fox Report Weekend - there has been no subsequent official announcement by News Corporation as to the reason for Banderas's apparent demotion to correspondent.