Adam Housley

Arthur Adam Housley (born, August 13, 1971^[1][2]) is an American journalist and former professional baseball player. He joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in 2001 as a Los Angeles-based senior correspondent.^[3] He does not use his given first name.

Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami

Housley was one of the first American reporters on scene in Japan to cover the devastation following the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. He and his crew at one point got within 70 miles of the reactors, filing live streaming reports for Fox News before the nuclear threat forced them to return to Tokyo. His coverage was featured in, among others, The Los Angeles Times, Mediabistro and The Napa Register.^[4][5][6]

Chilean mine rescue

Fluent in Spanish, Housley covered the 2010 Copiapó mining accident for Fox. He was on site and reporting on October 12–13, 2010, as each of the 33 miners, trapped for 69 days, was brought to the surface one at a time in a rescue capsule.^[1]

Earthquake in Haiti

Housley was one of the first correspondents on assignment in Haiti, covering the devastation left in the wake of the earthquake that struck the Caribbean island nation on January 12, 2010. He wound up using a plug-in mike he found at the Consumer Electronics show the week earlier to record reports shot on his iPhone. Housley and his cameraman, Eric Barnes, were able to turn rescue footage shot by Congressman Kendrick Meek (D-FL) into broadcast news. The coverage featured here.

Ferguson Protests

During the protests in August and again in late November 2014, Housley was one of the Fox reporters on scene during the riots in Ferguson, Missouri. He reported live as the fires were still burning on Florissant Avenue and some of his tweets prompted viewers to donate money to local businesses and employees who lost everything due to looting and subsequent fires caused by arson.^[7][8]

Journalism

Overall he has reported in eight Latin American countries including Nicaragua, Venezuela and El Salvador reporting on the war against drugs and scoring an exclusive interview with Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega. During his tenure, Housley was seen in and around Thailand providing extensive on-site coverage in the wake of the Southeast Asia tsunami. He was also FNC's lead reporter for Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2003 campaign and has covered six hurricanes, including Katrina and Rita and filed more than 45 stories from Mexico and the southern border.

Housley reported during Operation Iraqi Freedom from Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain and the Persian Gulf and has spent time covering the war on terror from Pakistan and in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In December 2005, Housley was one of a few reporters selected to witness the execution of murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams at San Quentin.^[9]

Most recently, Housley reported live on the shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), the suspension of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez and the aftermath of the deadly crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 live from the San Francisco Airport (SFO). In April 2013, he secured an exclusive interview with a Special Operations whistle-blower who felt the government betrayed the four men who died in the Benghazi attacks on September 11. Previously, he covered the 2012 wildfires in Waldo Canyon, Colorado ^[10]

Prior to joining FNC, Housley served as a reporter at KTXL-TV (Fox) in Sacramento, California from 1999–2001, where he received an array of awards including the 2001 Regional Associated Press Reporting Award and a Regional Emmy Award. In addition, he was the lead reporter for KFTY-TV, an independent station in Santa Rosa, California, from 1998-2000. Before that, Housley was a live reporter for KCPM-TV (NBC) in Chico, California from 1997–98, where he won a California Department of Forestry Award for capturing a wanted 50,000 acre arsonist. Housley began his career as a reporter for KVON-KVYN radio in his native Napa, where he developed and produced newscasts.

Baseball career

Prior to his career in television, Housley played professional baseball and was drafted by the Montreal Expos and played for both the Milwaukee Brewers and the Detroit Tigers minor league organizations, pitching in 97 games. He was also a Junior Olympic All-American baseball player as a pitcher and hitter.^[11] A graduate of Pepperdine University, Housley played on the 1992 National Champion College World Series Baseball Team and spent two summers playing for Harwich in the Cape Cod League.^[12]

Education

He received a double bachelor degree in political science and telecommunications from Pepperdine University. He was a two-time media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.^[13] He received his MA in International Security from the University of Arizona in 2014 ^[14]

Personal life

He married Sister, Sister actress and co-host of The Real Tamera Mowry on May 15, 2011. Housley is president of his family's Century Oak Winery in Lodi, California. The couple has one child, a son named Aden John Tanner, born on November 12, 2012.^[15] They just announced that they are expecting their second child a girl in July, 2015.^[16]

Defense of Interracial Marriage

Housley and his wife have received backlash on social media for their marriage, largely focusing on their interracial relationship and also because of his position at Fox News. He has aggressively defended his wife and family with some harsh words for those who levy racially-charged insults. In one response he said, “The fact that in this day and age, we get attacked for our interracial relationship is beyond sad…it is pathetic. Yes I am white. Yes she is half black. Marrying a white man does not erase her color and marrying a woman who is half black does not mean I am blinded. The problem isn’t pigmentation…the problem is backwards, bigoted thought from people who should know better.”^[17]

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