Aisha Husney will serve as the Saturday daytime two-hour anchor after being promoted to anchor and White House correspondent at Fox News Channel. He will become the newest member of the channel’s news team and will be responsible for new programming on weekends.
Starting Jan. 10, Husney will anchor the Saturday noon to 2 p.m. shift, replacing “Fox News Live,” which will continue to air on its Sunday schedule. She will start working as a White House correspondent starting this week.
“We believe Aisha’s knowledge of Washington makes her a perfect addition to our talented team of White House correspondents and an excellent anchor chair,” Jay Wallace, president and editor-in-chief of Fox News Media, said in a statement.
Husney joins the ranks of Fox News Washington reporters getting new on-air slots. In September, Washington correspondents Jackie Heinrich and Peter Doocy were asked to host a Sunday hour that had been reserved for MediaBuzz, a show devoted to media criticism for more than a decade. Their new show, “The Sunday Briefing,” is a one-hour program each week led by one of their anchors.
Husney joined FOX News Channel in 2019 and has worked as a senior national correspondent and Congressional correspondent based in Washington. Prior to that, she was a correspondent based in New York.
“I am excited about the opportunity to bring important information to a national audience as the anchor chair and am honored to join the prestigious White House correspondent team,” she said in a statement.
Prior to joining Fox News Media, Husney was an anchor and investigative reporter at Fox affiliate WXIN in Indianapolis, where he anchored the station’s 4 p.m. newscast. She also worked as an investigative reporter and substitute anchor at CBS affiliate WANE in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She got her start in the industry at GEO-TV, an international network based in her native Pakistan. She earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from Indiana University.
