Harris Faulkner Biography
Harris Faulkner ( born Harris Kimberley Faulkner) is a multi-Emmy award-winning journalist who co-anchors Outnumbered (weekdays, 12-1PM/ET) and serves as a newscaster for two daily daytime programs – The Faulkner Focus (weekdays, 11AM-12PM/ET) and The Faulkner Focus (weekdays, 11AM-12PM/ET) for Fox News Channel. She joined the news team in 2005. She is most recognized for winning six Emmy Awards for her work in broadcasting, including the Best Newscaster and Best News Special Emmys in 2004. In 2003, Faulkner won the National Headliner Award for Best Newscast for her coverage of Senator Paul Wellstone’s catastrophic plane crash.
Harris Faulkner Fox News | Wikipedia
Faulkner began her television career as an intern at KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, where she performed minor duties, before moving to Greenville, North Carolina, to work as a reporter and anchor at WNCT-TV. Faulkner worked as an evening anchor for WDAF-TV in Kansas City from 1992 to 2000. Faulkner was harassed and stalked in Kansas City by an old acquaintance who had followed her from North Carolina. Faulkner’s next assignment was as part of an evening anchor team at KSTP-TV in Minneapolis–Saint Paul. In July 2004, she resigned from the station. In 2005, Faulkner joined Fox News. She worked as a correspondent for A Current Affair from its relaunch in 2005 till its discontinuation in October 2005.
Faulkner has won many Emmy awards for his work as a news anchor. Faulkner is currently the host of two daily midday shows: The Faulkner Focus (weekdays, 11AM-12PM/ET) and Outnumbered (weekdays, 12-1PM/ET). Faulkner joined FOX News Channel (FNC) in 2005 and formerly hosted Outnumbered Overtime with Harris Faulkner, which has consistently ranked first in its timeslot since its debut in 2017.
She has hosted a number of primetime programs on a variety of current events during her stint at the network. Faulkner anchored America Together with Harris Faulkner: The Shot, which debunked myths surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines, America Copes Together, which focused on the psychological effects of the pandemic on individuals, and America Learns Together, which highlighted the challenges of guiding students through a digital education, all during the coronavirus pandemic. In March 2020, Faulkner co-moderated a two-hour virtual town hall with President Donald Trump and members of the White House coronavirus task committee on the newest developments about the tetanus virus with Bill Hemmer.
Faulkner presented Harris Faulkner: Police Emergency to Town Hall America in October 2019, which focused on recent incidents of terrorism and violence, as well as the police officer suicide epidemic. Faulkner resumed the subject in a one-hour program titled The Faulkner Focus: Police in America, which aired in April 2021.
Harris has interviewed a number of noteworthy personalities throughout her career, including Senator John McCain, President Donald Trump, Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas, and Cindy McCain, to name a few. Faulkner has also covered a number of major world events, including the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in 2016 and 2020.
Following the assassination of George Floyd, Faulkner landed the first one-on-one cable news interview with President Donald Trump in June 2020. The interview, which was her second with the president, focused on the broad civic disturbance that followed Floyd’s murder in police custody, as well as the administration’s position on civil rights. Following the interview, Faulkner continued the ongoing discourse about injustice in America in a primetime special titled Harris Faulkner Presents: The Fight for America, which received tremendous accolades from all sides of the aisle. Following Faulkner’s breaking news coverage in 2020, she became the first Black woman to headline two consecutive cable news programs.
Faulkner is a motivational speaker, writer, and philanthropist in addition to her career as a journalist. Faulkner is involved with the Green Beret Foundation, which provides medical, transition, and family support for those who have served in the United States Army Special Forces, and the Navy Seal Foundation, which provides immediate and ongoing support and assistance to the Naval Special Warfare community and its families, after growing up as a “military brat.” Faulkner also works with the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Avon Foundation for Women, and the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation to raise awareness and cash for breast cancer research. Faulkner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1998.
Harris Faulkner Age
How old is Faulkner? Harris Kimberley Faulkner is 56 years old as of 2021. She was born on October 13, 1965 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. She celebrates her birthday every 13th of Oct.
Harris Faulkner Education
Faulkner received a B.A. in mass communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Harris Faulkner Nationality and Ethnicity
What ethnicity is Faulkner? she belongs to the black ethnicity/heritage. She was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. She holds American nationality and citizenship by birth.
Harris Faulkner Height
The actor and TV journalist stands at a height of 5′ 7″ , 1.73 m. weighs 56kg. Her other body measurements are 35-24-35 inches for bust, waist and hips .
Harris Faulkner Family | Parents | Siblings
Faulkner was born at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia. to Shirley Harris her mother and Her father, retired Lieutenant Colonel Bob Harris, a United States Army officer and Army Aviator. She has a sister by the name Annissa Buchanan. Faulkner lived in different places as a child, including Stuttgart in West Germany.
Harris Faulkner Married | Husband
Faulkner is happily married to former WCCO-TV reporter Tony Berlin.The tw met via a mutual friends when they worked on competing tv stations in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They later got married on April 12, 2003 in Rio Rico, Arizona.
Harris Faulkner Children
Harris and Tony Berlin are happy parents to two adorable kids, Bella Berlin who was born in 2007 and Danika Berlin who was born in 2010.
Harris Faulkner Salary
What is Harris Faulkner salary Fox? The multi-Emmy award-winning journalist , of Fox News earns an estimated annual salary of $2 Million.
Harris Faulkner Net Worth
The American newscaster and television host has an estimated net worth of $6 million.
Harris Faulkner Sick | Cancer
Is Harris Faulkner Sick? According to our sources, Faulkner is not ill and is in good health. However, she had been struggling with grief with the death of her mother, and dad. Shirley Harris, her mother, died in 2016 after a long fight with lung cancer.
Harris Faulkner Parents Death
She posted on Instagram about her dad’s death Bobby R. Harris. Her mother to passed on of lung cancer in November 2016.
Harris Faulkner Books
She is also an author:
- 2018 – 9 Rules of Engagement: A Military Brat’s Guide to Life and Success
- 1999 – Breaking News : God Has a Plan: An Anchorwoman’s Journey Through Faith
