Since April 2017, Heather Ann Nauert, an American journalist, has served as the spokesman for the US Department of State. She was previously a Fox News Channel anchor and correspondent in New York, where she was in charge of breaking news on the top-rated US morning cable news show. She has also solo headlined shows on Fox Channel and contributed to practically every news channel, including radio and the internet. She is a former co-host of ‘Fox & Friends’ and ‘Fox & Friends First,’ as well as a network correspondent for ‘ABC News.’ She excels at reporting on crucial global and domestic problems and conducting interviews with high government and military personnel. She has been praised for her reporting on presidential primaries and elections in battleground states. She also covered the Republican and Democratic conventions, presidential debates, and the inauguration live on television. While at ABC News, Nauert traveled widely for breaking news stories in the United States and internationally. She has also served on the Council on Foreign Relations as a term member. She worked as a health insurance consultant in Washington, DC before becoming a journalist.
Childhood and Adolescence
Heather Ann Nauert was born on January 27, 1970, in Rockford, Illinois, the US state’s third largest city. Peter Nauert, her father, worked as an insurance executive. Justin, Jonathan, and Joseph are her three brothers.
She went to Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, which is a private liberal arts college. Until 2014, it was a women-only college.
She went on to Mount Vernon College for Women in Washington, D.C., where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications. It amalgamated with George Washington University in 1999 and is now known as The George Washington University’s Mount Vernon Campus. She also graduated from Columbia University, a private research university in New York City’s Upper Manhattan, with a master’s degree in journalism.
Career of Heather
Heather Nauert worked as a government affairs consultant on issues like Social Security, health insurance, and taxation before becoming a writer. She was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, a nonpartisan think organization focusing on US foreign policy and international affairs. She began working for First Business Network LLC, a division of Weigel Broadcasting in Chicago, in 1996. First Business is a nationally syndicated financial news and analysis television program. She worked as a reporter for a nationally syndicated business program.
She joined Fox News Station, a Fox Entertainment Group-owned American basic cable and satellite television news channel, in 1998. She spent seven years at the station, the first three as a contributor and the last four as a correspondent. She was a regular contributor to ‘The Big Story,’ a news/talk television program that began broadcasting in 2000 on the Fox News Channel, as a correspondent. Along with John Gibson, she was a host.
She covered foreign and local news and events as the news anchor for Fox News Channel’s morning show ‘Fox & Friends’ and ‘Fox & Friends First,’ including major events such as the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War. She also covered the presidential election. In 2005, she left Fox Channel. According to Celebrity Net Worth, she earned $500,000 each year from Fox News.
She joined ABC News’ Los Angeles bureau in 2005, the news branch of the American Broadcasting Company, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company’s Disney Media Networks division. She worked as a general assignment journalist for ABC News for two years, contributing to shows like ‘World News Tonight,’ ‘Good Morning America,’ and ‘Nightline.’ In 2007, she left ABC News.
She returned to Fox News Channel in 2007 as a co-host of John Gibson’s daily version of ‘The Big Story.’
On weekday mornings for WNYW, the flagship station of the Fox Television Network in New York City, Nauert hosted the newscasts ‘Good Day Early Call’ and ‘Good Day New York Wake Up’ with co-anchor Steve Lacy. She quit ‘Good Day Wake Up’ in October 2012. The Trump administration planned to select Nauert as the next State Department spokesman, according to reports from March 2017. On April 24, 2017, the State Department officially announced Nauert’s appointment. According to a release, “Heather’s media skills and lengthy interest in international issues will be crucial as she communicates the Administration’s foreign policy priorities to the American people and the world.”
After leaving Fox News Channel, she joined the State Department as a spokesperson in April 2017. On June 6, 2017, she gave her first press conference in that capacity. She expressed her delight at working with “such talented, dedicated personnel and outstanding journalists” on Twitter. She is the department’s first permanent spokesman since Trump entered office, and she is led by Rex Tillerson. The department had not given daily news briefings since Trump’s inauguration, according to acting spokesman Mark Toner.
Achievements & Awards
She was nominated for an Emmy Award at ABC News for her work on the special series ’13 Around the World.’ The award honors outstanding achievement in the television industry.
Personal Experiences of Heather Nauert
Heather Nauert is married to Scott Norby, a Goldman Sachs investment banker. Peter, born in October 2009, and Gage, born in December 2010, are their two sons.
Estimated Net Worth
Heather Nauert’s income and net worth: Heather Nauert is an American news anchor with a $3 million dollar net worth. Heather Nauert was born in Rockford, Illinois, and received her bachelor’s degree in communications from Mount Vernon College for Women.