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Harris Faulkner
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Faulkner in 2018
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| Born |
Harris Kimberley Faulkner
October 13, 1965 |
| Education | University of California, Santa Barbara (BA) |
| Occupation | Television presenter, news anchor |
| Employer | Fox Entertainment |
| Spouse(s) |
Tony Berlin
(m. 2003) |
| Children | 2 |
Harris Kimberley Faulkner, born on October 13, 1965, is a well-known American television host. She joined the Fox News Channel in 2005. Today, she anchors a daily show called The Faulkner Focus and also hosts Outnumbered. She has won six Emmy Awards for her work in television.
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Early Life and Education
Harris Faulkner was born in Atlanta, Georgia, at Fort McPherson. Her father, Bobby R. Harris, was a United States Army officer and pilot. He served in Vietnam multiple times. Because of her father's military career, Harris lived in different places as a child. This included a U.S. military base in Stuttgart, West Germany.
Faulkner later attended the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in mass communications. This field of study helps people learn how to share information with many people, like through TV or newspapers.
Television Career
Harris Faulkner began her career in television after working as a freelance writer for LA Weekly. Her first step into TV was an internship at KCOP-TV in Los Angeles. After that, she moved to Greenville, North Carolina, where she worked as a reporter and anchor at WNCT-TV.
From 1992 to 2000, Faulkner worked in Kansas City at WDAF-TV. There, she was an evening news anchor. Her next job was at KSTP-TV in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, where she also anchored the evening news. She left that station in 2004.
Joining Fox News
Faulkner joined Fox News in 2005. She started as a correspondent for a show called A Current Affair. From 2011 to 2017, she anchored Fox Report Weekend, which was her first solo network newscast. She also filled in for other anchors on shows like Shepard Smith Reporting and The Story.
In April 2014, Faulkner became one of the co-hosts of the daytime Fox News show Outnumbered. In 2017, she started anchoring Outnumbered Overtime, which focused more on hard news. In early 2021, she launched her own new show, The Faulkner Focus. She also sometimes appears on Gutfeld! and is an occasional substitute co-host on The Five.
Awards and Achievements
While working at KSTP, Harris Faulkner won four regional Emmy Awards. These awards included Best Anchor for three years in a row (2002, 2003, and 2004). She also won an Emmy for anchoring a news special called "Eyewitness to War."
In 1998, she received the Amelia Earhart Pioneering Lifetime Achievement Award. This award recognized her efforts to help others. In 2021, Variety magazine honored her in their New York Women's Impact Report. This was for her 2020 interview with then-president Donald Trump.
Personal Life
Harris Faulkner married Tony Berlin, a former reporter, in 2003. They have two daughters together. The family lives in Edgewater, New Jersey.
