Who is Harris Faulkner? Flash Uganda Media looks at her biography, age, husband, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Bobby R. Harris, and Tony Berlin and the early life and education of an American conservative journalist, television host, news anchor, motivational speaker, writer, and philanthropist.
Harris Faulkner is an American conservative journalist, television host, news anchor, motivational speaker, writer, and philanthropist.
She hosts Outnumbered and Town Hall America with Harris Faulkner. She also anchors the daily daytime program The Faulkner Focus.
Her credits as a writer and producer include The Faulkner Focus (2021), Harris Faulkner Presents: The Fight for America (2020), and Outnumbered Overtime with Harris Faulkner (2017).
Net Worth
As of 2023, Celebrity Net Worth estimates Harris Faulkner’s net worth to be $6 million US dollars.
Fox News pays Faulkner $9 million a year in salary. She possesses six real estate holdings in Texas, California, and New York.
She resides in one of her opulent three-bedroom New York apartments.
With all the other properties rented out, she brings in over $450,000 a year in rental income.
In addition, Harris Faulkner has co-authored numerous popular books, which bring in over $1 million in royalties annually.
She also possesses a $2 million investment portfolio consisting of seven stocks.
Early Life and Education
On October 13, 1965, Harris Kimberley Faulkner was born in Atlanta, Georgia, at Fort McPherson.
Her father, retired Lieutenant Colonel Bobby R. Harris, was an Army Aviator and US Army officer who had served three tours in Vietnam.
During her childhood, Faulkner resided in several locations, including Stuttgart, Germany.
She studied mass communications at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Faulkner began her career in television by performing menial tasks as an intern at Los Angeles’ KCOP-TV.
Having been raised as a “military brat,” Faulkner is now involved with the Green Beret Foundation, which helps veterans of the U.S. Army Special Forces with transition, medical, and family support.
She is also active with the Navy Seal Foundation, which helps the families of those who serve in the Naval Special Warfare community by offering them immediate and continuous support.
On April 12, 2003, Faulkner got married to Tony Berlin, a former reporter for WCCO-TV. They have two daughters who were born in 2007 and 2009.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Harris Faulkner began her career as a freelance business writer for LA Weekly, where she was paid $50 for each article.
Before joining FNC, she worked as a stand-in host on CNN’s Headline News’ The Nancy Grace Show and as a correspondent for WNYW-TV’s (FOX 5) A Current Affair.
She worked as a reporter and anchor for Greenville, North Carolina’s WNCT-TV (CBS 9) before moving to Kansas City in 1992 to work for WDAF-TV (FOX 4).
Faulkner was an evening anchor for WDAF-TV in Kansas City from 1992 until 2000.
After moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2000, Faulkner worked as an evening anchor for KSTP-TV (ABC 5) and hosted The Harris Faulkner Show on FM107 Radio.
In July 2004, she departed from the station.
In 2005, she started working for Fox News Channel. She worked as a correspondent for A Current Affair from its resuscitation until its finale in October 2005.
From 2011 to 2017, Faulkner hosted Fox Report Weekend, her first solo network newscast.
Faulkner started as a co-host of the daytime Fox News program Outnumbered in April 2014.
She started anchoring Outnumbered Overtime in 2017, a program that focuses more on hard news than discussion.
Apart from covering the 2018 Midterm Elections, Faulkner has filled in as an anchor on Shepard Smith Reporting and The Story for Martha MacCallum.
Before Greg Gutfeld departed from Red Eye, she also frequently made guest appearances on the late-night satire program.
She now appears on his weeknight talk show Gutfeld! and fills in as The Five’s co-host occasionally.
Her new program, The Faulkner Focus, debuted in early 2021.
After Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News Tonight in June 2023, Faulkner took over as guest host.
Achievements and Awards
Six Emmy Awards have been given to Harris Faulkner, including the Upper Midwest Emmy Awards for Best Newscaster and Best News Special in 2005.
Faulkner was the anchor of a news special called “Eyewitness to War” and won four regional Emmy Awards while working at ABC’s Minneapolis affiliate KSTP.
She also won Best Anchor for three consecutive years, from 2002 to 2004.
For her humanitarian work, she received the Amelia Earhart Pioneering Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.
As the only Black woman to anchor two consecutive cable news programs in 2020, Faulkner’s breaking news coverage earned her a spot on WORTH Magazine’s “Groundbreakers” list, which recognizes 50 powerful women across the globe for shattering stereotypes in their fields.
She received recognition in 2021 from Variety’s 2021 New York Women’s Impact Report for her interview with then-President Donald Trump in 2020 following George Floyd’s murder.
Faulkner’s coverage of Sen. Paul Wellstone’s 2003 plane crash resulted in her being awarded the National Headliner Award for Best Newscast.
Faulkner is the author of two published works;
“Breaking News: God Has A Plan – An Anchorwoman’s Journey Through Faith” which was published on November 1, 1999.
“9 Rules of Engagement – A Military Brat’s Guide to Life and Success” which was published on June 5, 2018.
Controversies
Faulkner filed a $5 million lawsuit against Hasbro in September 2015, alleging that a plastic hamster in the company’s Littlest Pet Shop line violated her rights to her name and likeness.
In October 2016, Hasbro and Faulkner reached a settlement whereby Hasbro agreed to stop making the toy.
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