Ainsley Earhardt

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Ainsley Earhardt
Earhardt in 2011
Born	Ainsley Earhardt September 20, 1978 South Carolina
Education	B.A. University of South Carolina
Occupation	Journalist
Title	Anchor/Correspondent at Fox News Channel
Website
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258373,00.html

Ainsley Earhardt is an American correspondent for the Fox News Channel. She provides live news cut-ins at night Monday through Wednesday. Earhardt also reports for FOX's Hannity with her own segment called "Ainsley Across America". Since being at FOX, she has co-hosted Fox and Friends and has been a panelist on The Live Desk. As of March 5, 2012, she co-hosts Fox & Friends First with Anna Kooiman at 5 a.m. Eastern Time.^[1]

Background

Earhardt grew up in South Carolina, graduating from Spring Valley High School (1995) in Columbia, South Carolina.^[2] She attended Florida State University on a leadership and academic scholarship, majoring in biology. Earhardt served the student body as a senator in student government. She then transferred to the University of South Carolina after deciding to pursue a degree in journalism. Earhardt has a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of South Carolina. While in college, she was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

Career

Earhardt graduated as a top student in her program and was hired to work as a reporter for WLTX-News 19, the local CBS station in Columbia, South Carolina before she graduated from USC. From 2000 to 2004. She worked as the morning and noon anchor (both rated #1). Earhardt traveled to New York City to cover South Carolina middle school students donating nearly half a million dollars to firefighters after the September 11 attacks. The money was raised to buy a new fire truck to replace one lost at the World Trade Center site.

She later worked and lived in Massachusetts, Florida, North Carolina and New York. Earhardt joined the network in 2007 after anchor #1 shows at KENS-TV in San Antonio, Texas. She anchored Eyewitness News This Morning (5 AM-7:30 AM) and KENS 5 Eyewitness News at Noon. She has completed the Austin, Texas half-marathon, gone skydiving with the U.S. Army's Golden Knights and flown in an F-16 with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.

Recognition

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'. While at WLTX, viewers voted Earhardt "Best Personality of the Year" in Columbia Metropolitan Magazine.^[3] In 2011, Earhardt was named "most beautiful woman on Planet Earth" by MoFoPolitics.^[4]

Blue Dog And Sponge Cake, a comedic band from Aurora, Colorado, created a song about Earhardt.^[5]

MormonVoices, a group associated with Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research, included Earhardt on its Top Ten Anti-Mormon Statements of 2011 list for stating "The Christian coalition, I think (another candidate) could get a lot of money from that, because Romney, obviously, not being a Christian..."^[6]

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