Ainsley Earhardt

Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10:01 pm

Ainsley Hayden Earhardt (born September 20, 1980) is an American correspondent for the Fox News Ainsley Earhardt 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”. She has co-hosted Fox and Friends.

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 station in Columbia, South Carolina, from 2000 to 2004. Earhardt traveled to New York City to cover South Carolina middle 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, graduating from Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. She has lived in Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, North Carolina and New York. She completed the Austin, Texas half-marathon, went skydiving with the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights and flew in an F-16 with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.

Earhardt has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism 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. Viewers voted Earhardt “Best Personality of the Year” in Columbia Metropolitan Magazine

Ainsley Earhardt

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