PERSON: Alisyn Camerota

Host

Alisyn Camerota serves as a co-host for Fox News Channel’s (FNC) “Fox & Friends Weekend.” In addition to anchoring the four hour live program every Saturday and Sunday, she also regularly fills in on “Fox & Friends” Monday through Friday. As an anchor, Camerota has had sit down interviews with numerous prominent newsmakers including George H.W. Bush, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, football star Terrell Owens, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and rocker Jon Bon Jovi.

She joined the network in February 1998 as a correspondent for the Boston bureau where she also contributed reports for Fox News Edge, the affiliate news service. As a correspondent, Camerota reported live from the epicenters of the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections, anchored around-the-clock coverage of unfolding events such as the start of the Iraq War as well as the airplane crashes involving JFK Jr., Egypt Air and American Airlines Flight 587. Additionally, she reported from Ground Zero in the wake of the Sept. 11th attacks and has covered a host of international stories.

Prior to joining FNC, Camerota served as a correspondent for WHDH-TV (NBC) in Boston from 1996-97, where she provided reports for the station’s late night newscast. Before that, she was a substitute host/correspondent for “Real Life,” NBC’s national daytime newsmagazine from 1995-96. Camerota also spent four years (1991-95) as a correspondent for Fox’s national crime program “America’s Most Wanted” and covered spot news for WTTG-TV (FOX) in Washington, D.C.

Camerota began her career at Koppel Communications, where she worked on ABC newsman Ted Koppel’s critically acclaimed prime-time documentaries. She attended American University on a full academic scholarship and graduated cum laude with a major in broadcast journalism and a minor in criminal justice.

— foxnews.com