Ainsley Earhardt

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birthname = Ainsley Earhardt
birth_date = 1978
birth_place = South Carolina
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education = B.A. University of South Carolina 1999
occupation = Journalist
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status = Married
title = Overnight Anchor at Fox News Channel
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ethnic = Caucasian
religion = Christian
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URL = http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258373,00.html

Ainsley Earhardt (born 1978) is a correspondent for the Fox News Channel, where she provides live news cut-ins at night Monday through Wednesday. Earhardt also reports for FOX's Hannity's America on Sunday nights with her own segment called "Ainsley Across America". Since being at FOX, she has co-hosted Fox and Friends, been a panelist on The Live Desk and made appearances on Red Eye.

She joined the network in 2007 after being a weekday news anchor at KENS-TV in San Antonio, Texas. Earhardt anchored weekday newscasts of KENS 5 "Eyewitness News This Morning" (5 AM-7:30 AM) and KENS 5 "Eyewitness News at Noon". She worked for WLTX 19, a CBS station in Columbia, South Carolina from 2000 to 2004. Earhardt traveled to New York City to cover South Carolina elementary school students donating nearly half a million dollars to firefighters after 9-11. The money was raised to buy a new fire truck to replace one lost at Ground Zero. While at that network, viewers voted Earhardt "Best Personality of the Year" in Columbia Metropolitan Magazine. Earhardt grew up in South Carolina and has lived in Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, North Carolina and New York. She completed the Austin, Texas half-marathon, went skydiving with the Army's Golden Knights and flew in an F-16 with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.

Earhardt has a bachelor's degree in mass communications from the University of South Carolina. In 2007, Earhardt was given the University of South Carolina's Young Alumni Award and named the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's 2007 Outstanding Young Alumna.

External links

* [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258373,00.html FoxNews.com bio]

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