Harris Faulkner is an American newscaster for Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel

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. She previously presented Fox News Live

Fox News Live

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headline updates during the 6:00 p.m.–11:30 p.m., then briefly 12:30 a.m. ET

North American Eastern Time Zone

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 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

Shepard Smith

David Shepard Smith, Jr. , known better as Shepard Smith, is an American television news anchor. He is host of Fox Report with Shepard Smith and Studio B weekdays on Fox News Channel. In addition, he anchors the 5:00 p.m...

 as a substitute anchor on The Fox Report

Fox Report

The Fox Report is a fast-paced American nightly news program on Fox News Channel, hosted weekdays by Shepard Smith and weekends by Harris Faulkner.-About the program:...

, 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

Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld

Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld is a late-night/early-morning satirical talk show on the Fox News Channel, airing at 3:00 am ET Tuesday through Saturday. The show features panelists and guests discussing the latest news in politics, pop culture, entertainment, business, sports, and religion...

. Faulkner is also a motivational speaker

Motivational speaker

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 and works for various charitable causes.

She was born in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

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, at Fort McPherson

Fort McPherson

Fort McPherson was a U.S. Army military base located in East Point, Georgia, on the southwest edge of the City of Atlanta, Ga. It was the headquarters for the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, Southeast Region; the U.S. Army Forces Command; the U.S. Army Reserve Command; the U.S...

, where her father was a United States Army

United States Army

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 aviator

Aviator

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. The family soon moved to Germany for over three years until 1969, when the family returned to the United States.

Faulkner studied business economics

Business economics

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 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

WNCT-TV

WNCT-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Eastern North Carolina's Inner Banks licensed to Greenville. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 10 from a transmitter in Grifton along NC 118. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 6 as well as Time Warner...

, then Kansas City's WDAF-TV

WDAF-TV

WDAF-TV, virtual channel 4.1, is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas designated market area. The station is owned by Local TV LLC, the media arm of private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners. Its studios and transmitter are located in the Signal Hill...

 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

KSTP-TV

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. 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

Kent Ninomiya

Kent Ninomiya is the first male Asian American broadcast journalist to be a primary news anchor of a television station in the United States. The Asian American Journalist Association, often referred to as the AAJA, notes that there are numerous Asian American women on the air at American...

, she was head anchor for KSTP-TV

KSTP-TV

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'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

Newsmagazine

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 A Current Affair until its cancellation in October of the same year.

Near the end of 2010, she replaced Julie Banderas

Julie Banderas

Julie Banderas is an American television news correspondent for the Fox News Channel. She was previously the anchor for Fox Report Weekend.-Early life:...

 as anchorwoman of Fox Report Weekend - there has been no subsequent official announcement by News Corporation

News Corporation

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 as to the reason for Banderas's apparent demotion to correspondent

Correspondent

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Books by Faulkner

• "Breaking News: God Has a Plan An Anchorwoman's Journey Through Faith" Leathers Publishing, 1999 ISBN 1-58597-011-5