TV Wouldn’t Be The Same Without These Fabulous Female Anchors
In 2019 the Fox News Channel was officially named America’s biggest basic cable network, with an average audience of about 2.5 million during prime-time. It has continued that success in subsequent years, and the array of excellent female anchors on the channel have a lot to do with it. These strong-minded broadcast journalists bring a great mix of news, opinions and, yes, even a bit of glamour!
40. Megyn Kelly
Net worth: $45 million
Megyn Kelly is one of the most famous anchors to ever work for Fox News. She plied her trade there on shows such as America’s Newsroom and America Live from 2004 to 2017, before leaving to join NBC News. In the 2019 film Bombshell Kelly was played by Oscar-winner Charlize Theron, who picked up her third Best Actress nomination in the process!
39. Julie Banderas
Net worth: $12 million
These days Julie Banderas is an anchor working out of the New York studio of Fox News. She first joined in 2005 and later served as the anchor for Fox Report Weekend. She’s arguably best-known for her spirited on-air disagreement with Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church, who was protesting against the LGBTQ community.
38. Tomi Lahren
Net worth: $3 million
Tomi Lahren’s importance to the Fox Corporation has grown by leaps and bounds since she first joined Fox News in 2017. In fact, in June 2022 it was announced that her presence across Fox would be growing. She will present Fox News Commentary on the Fox News Audio network, as well as a program called Tomi Lahren is Fearless on OutKick — which Fox purchased in 2021.
37. Maria Bartiromo
Net worth: $50 million
Finance journalist Maria Bartiromo was on the Financial Times newspaper’s list of “50 Faces That Shaped the Decade” in 2009. In fact, she was so well known before she even joined Fox News in 2014 that she made cameo appearances in several Hollywood movies — 2009’s The Taking of Pelham 123, 2010’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and 2012’s Arbitrage. These days she is lead anchor on Sunday Morning Futures.
36. Laura Ingraham
Net worth: $40 million
According to the Fox News website, the host of The Ingraham Angle “challenges the decision-makers to focus on everyday, hard-working Americans who serve as the backbone of the nation.” She also uses her show to spotlight “the importance of faith in our nation and… [to] reveal stories that showcase the American spirit.” The former attorney and law clerk has been with Fox News since 2007.
35. Courtney Friel
Net worth: $12 million
Courtney Friel worked for Fox News for six years before leaving in 2013 for Los Angeles-based KTLA Channel 5 News. While at Fox she was a mainstay on a number of its entertainment-focused shows, as well as a regular on its satirical talk show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. She published a memoir in 2020 — Tonight at 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News — and an L.A.-based production company has snapped up the film rights.
34. Claudia Cowan
Net worth: $2 million
Claudia Cowan has been one of Fox News’ premier San Francisco correspondents for 24 years — and counting! In 2020 she famously presented live and in-person reporting from the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone in Seattle. She has also covered ongoing topics such as the California wildfires of recent years, as well as the state’s struggles with its crime rate.
33. Sara A. Carter
Net worth: $3 million
Sara A. Carter has been with Fox News since 2017. Over the course of her illustrious career, she has won two National Headliner awards and the Sigma Delta Chi honor from the Society of Professional Journalists. She won these accolades for her work on documenting the conflict between warring Mexican drug cartels plaguing parts of America’s southern border.
32. Anita Vogel
Net worth: $1 million
As a panellist on Fox News’ Big Saturday Show and Big Sunday Show, as well as a regular guest host on Fox News Live, Anita Vogel will be very familiar with viewers. In fact, she has been with the company since 2001 and has covered a number of huge breaking stories. For instance, she provided two weeks of on-site reporting in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.
31. Heather Childers
Net worth: $4 million
Nowadays Heather Childers co-presents Newsmax TV’s American Agenda, following her — somewhat acrimonious — departure from Fox News in 2020. Up until that point, she had been with the company for ten years. She was co-anchor on the breakfast show Fox & Friends First, as well as an anchor on America’s News Headquarters.
30. Mara Liasson
Net worth: $3 million
Mara Liasson splits her time between NPR and Fox News. She serves as the national political correspondent for the former and a panellist on Fox News Sunday and Special Report with Bret Baier for the latter. Amazingly, she has been with NPR since 1985 and Fox News since 1997 — which demonstrates her incredible longevity.
29. Andrea Tantaros
Net worth: $5 million
From 2010 to 2016 Andrea Tantaros was co-anchor on both The Five and Outnumbered. In fact, during her tenure on The Five, it rose to the position of second-highest-rated cable news show! Sadly, she left Fox News in 2016 and entered into a legal battle with the company. She even wound up representing herself in legal proceedings, but her case was dismissed.
28. Amy Kellogg
Net worth: $2 million
Amy Kellogg is Fox News’ Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent and is based in Milan, Italy. She has been with Fox since 1999 and has covered a ton of breaking stories over the years. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris have both been extensively documented by Kellogg, but she has also provided reports on less weighty topics — such as Britain’s royal family!
27. Carley Shimkus
Net worth: $300,000
The workday for Carley Shimkus begins early — she’s co-anchor on FOX & Friends First, which starts at 4am every weekday. Following that two-hour slot, Shimkus then sticks around for FOX & Friends between 6am and 9am. During this block, she updates viewers on topics including celebrity news, business trends and social-media stories.
26. Harris Faulkner
Net worth: $6 million
One of the most respected broadcast journalists in the biz, Harris Faulkner has won — yes, six — Emmy Awards over the course of her career. Arguably her crowning moment came in 2020 when she became the first person to interview then-President Donald Trump in the wake of the civil unrest surrounding George Floyd’s death. The hard-hitting chat was praised by both sides of the U.S. political divide.
25. Heather Nauert
Net worth: $3 million
Before she worked as Spokesperson for the United States Department of State as part of Donald Trump’s administration, Heather Nauert had a couple of stints at Fox News. She was there from 1998 to 2005, then returned in 2007 to co-host The Big Story with John Gibson. This later led to her presenting Fox & Friends in 2012.
21. Sandra Smith
Net worth: $6 million
When Sandra Smith was co-anchor on Outnumbered — which had an ever-changing panel of female hosts and “one lucky guy” to discuss the day’s news — it was rated number one in its field. She left that show in 2018 to co-anchor America’s Newsroom and now co-hosts America Reports. Oh, and in 2018 she reported live from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding!
15. Ainsley Earhardt
Net worth: $6 million
On top of co-hosting Fox & Friends on Fox News and Ainsley’s Bible Study on Fox Nation, Ainsley Earhardt is also a celebrated children’s author! Her third book I’m So Glad You Were Born was released in 2022. In a statement, she revealed, “This book celebrates all the reasons we are so glad our children are born and how special they are.”
19. Kat Timpf
Net worth: $1.5 million
Kat Timpf is a regular part of Gutfeld! on Fox News, and has her own Fox Nation show Sincerely, Kat. Best of all, though, is that Timpf is the only Fox News personality who co-hosts a hilarious podcast with a professional wrestler — and we think that counts for a lot! Tyrus — currently of NWA and formerly of WWE — and Timpf’s show airs on Fox News Radio.
24. Janice Dean
Net worth: $4 million
Janice Dean is the weather reporter and senior meteorologist on Fox & Friends. Her fight against multiple sclerosis — which she was diagnosed with in 2005 — has inspired many viewers over the years. In 2018 she told Women’s Health magazine, “My MS has… given me strength in ways I never imagined. So, this… is a reminder. Be proud of this body. There’s so much more I want to do with it.”
23. Uma Pemmaraju
Net worth: $4 million
When Fox News debuted in 1996 Uma Pemmaraju was part of the on-air team. The journalist — who was born in India but raised in San Antonio, Texas — was named Boston magazine’s Best Anchor in 1996/97. During her tenure at Fox News, she interviewed a host of famous faces, including politician Sarah Palin, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, singer Carly Simon, actress Whoopi Goldberg, and the Dalai Lama!
22. Rebecca Diamond
Net worth: $10 million
Rebecca Diamond’s Twitter bio reads: “Mommy is job number one. CEO of the Diamond household. Six employees.” This should tell you how much family means to the former Fox News anchor! She was with the outlet right from its launch in 1996 until 2011 working on Happy Hour and contributing to many other shows.
20. Greta Van Susteren
Net worth: $35 million
On the Record with Greta Van Susteren was a Fox News mainstay from 2002 to 2016 — until she left for MSNBC. She said in a Facebook statement, “Fox has not felt like home to me for a few years and I took advantage of the clause in my contract which allows me to leave now.” It was an ignominious end for one of the best correspondents the network ever had.
18. Alex Hogan
Net worth: $1 million
A fairly recent Fox News recruit, Alex Hogan has established herself in a very short amount of time. The London-based journalist was hired in January 2020 and was immediately thrust into covering the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement. In 2022 she reported from Lviv about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
17. Jenna Lee
Net worth: $5 million
Jenna Lee initially plied her trade at Fox Business Network from 2007 to 2010 then moved over to Fox News. She became co-anchor on Happening Now and enjoyed seven happy years there, before announcing on-air that she was leaving the company. With the classy sign-off, “It’s been an honor and a true privilege to serve as your anchor,” she rode off into the sunset!
16. Rachel Campos-Duffy
Net worth: $500,000
Rachel Campos-Duffy is something of a supermom — in fact, it’s very much her Fox News brand! She and husband Sean Duffy — also a Fox News contributor — have nine children and co-host a podcast together about their experiences. They also co-wrote All-American Christmas, a New York Times bestseller, which was published by Fox News Books.
14. Jennifer Griffin
Net worth: $1.2 million
Jennifer Griffin has been delivering stellar daily reporting from the Pentagon since 2007. She’s a valuable commodity to Fox News because she often offers a different take to some of her colleagues. Stephen Hayes, formerly of the channel, once told newspaper The Post, “If she reports something on air, it’s because she’s done hard work off-camera to determine the facts of the matter and present what’s true.”
13. Tammy Bruce
Net worth: $1.5 million
Tammy Bruce joined the network in 2005 and these days she is known to guest-host on the main Fox News channel. Her main outlet, though, is the Get Tammy Bruce show on Fox Nation — the company’s streaming platform. She says that her interest in politics was actually fostered when she was a child reading the heady dystopian literature of George Orwell and Ray Bradbury.
12. Kayleigh McEnany
Net worth: $500,000
Before she was a host on Outnumbered, Kayleigh McEnany was Donald Trump’s White House Press Secretary. In 2018 she underwent a preventative double mastectomy because she had a high risk of developing breast cancer. In 2019 she wrote, “You will have struggles in life. You will encounter hurdles. There will be times when you want to quit. There will be times when you want to give up. But these are the times when you rise to the occasion.”
11. Shannon Bream
Net worth: $10 million
After joining Fox News in 2007 as a Supreme Court correspondent in Washington D.C., Bream went on to wear many hats in her career. She currently hosts Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream and in 2021 became the first author published by Fox News Books. The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today became a New York Times bestseller.
10. Molly Line
Net worth: $5 million
Molly Line joined Fox News in 2006 and is still there today. She is currently one of the regular anchors on Fox News Live and has appeared on a smattering of other shows including America’s News Headquarters and Fox Report with Jon Scott. Perhaps her most famous work came when she reported live from the scene of the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012.
9. Alicia Acuna
Net worth: $2.2 million
Alicia Acuna proved how professional she is, even in the face of potential embarrassment, in May 2022. She posted on Instagram, “So a bird pooped on my head, while doing live shots. I’m gonna need a minute — and a shower. It’s good luck, right?” Talk about taking it all in stride — and with a great sense of humor! Even a news channel needs that every now and again.
8. Marie Harf
Net worth: $1 million
Marie Harf began her career as a CIA analyst and eventually became a media spokeswoman for the agency. She later became U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Senior Advisor of Strategic Communications, before coming to Fox News in 2017 as a liberal political correspondent. Aside from a sojourn to act as foreign policy advisor to Congressman Seth Moulton, she’s been at the channel ever since.
7. Gretchen Carlson
Net worth: $18 million
Gretchen Carlson left Fox News in 2016 after helping kickstart the #MeToo movement. Her story captured the nation so much that she has been played on screen by two of the greatest actresses working today. First she was portrayed by Naomi Watts in the Showtime series The Loudest Voice, and then by Nicole Kidman in the movie Bombshell.
6. Jamie Colby
Net worth: $6 million
Jamie Colby left Fox News in 2019 — but she left a lasting impression, thanks to her time hosting Strange Inheritance on Fox Business Network. That fascinating docuseries delved deeply into the real tales behind people inheriting things in, shall we say, unusual ways. Prior to that show, she had worked steadily for the channel from 2003.
5. Judge Jeanine Pirro
Net worth: $14 million
Jeanine Pirro has spent her life making history. She was the first female District Attorney of Westchester County, and also that same county’s first female Judge. She hosted Justice with Judge Jeanine on Fox News from 2011 to 2022 before moving over to The Five. Oh, and she’s also written six books, including two legal thrillers starring her character Dani Fox!
4. Martha MacCallum
Net worth: $8 million
Martha MacCallum has been with Fox News since 2004 and currently anchors The Story with Martha MacCallum every weekday. She is also an author, having published Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima in 2020. It was based on research she conducted into her uncle Harry Gray, who was killed at only 18 years old while fighting for his country against Japan.
3. Katie Pavlich
Net worth: $5 million
Katie Pavlich is one of the panellists on Outnumbered and has also spent some time on The Five. She has proven to be a controversial figure on a couple of occasions, such as in 2019 when she challenged Greta Thunberg and the scientific community about climate change. But Fox News viewers love her, and likely also read her contributions to conservative news site Townhall.com.
2. Kimberly Guilfoyle
Net worth: $25 million
In her life, Kimberly Guilfoyle has been a prosecuting attorney, the First Lady of San Francisco, and an advisor to President Trump. Oh, and she also found time to co-anchor The Five on Fox News from 2006 to 2018! She left the network that year under a cloud of controversy, and has since been dating Donald Trump Jr.
1. Lisa Boothe
Net worth: $10 million
Since 2016 Boothe has been delivering political commentary across Fox News’ line-up. She also hosts her own podcast — The Truth with Lisa Boothe — whose mission statement is to give regular Americans the real scoops that the mainstream media can’t. As if that wasn’t enough, she also has a day job as founder of political communications outfit High Noon Strategies.