Megyn Marie Kelly is an American journalist and attorney. She was a news anchor at Fox News from 2004 to 2017, and a host and correspondent with NBC News from 2017 to 2018. In 2014, she was included in the TIME list of the 100 most influential people. Her show was cancelled in October 2018, after a segment discussing blackface. Kelly left NBC News in January 2019.
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Megyn Marie Kelly is an American journalist and attorney. She was a news anchor at Fox News from 2004 to 2017, and a host and correspondent with NBC News from 2017 to 2018. She currently produces a podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, and is also active posting to her Instagram page and YouTube channel. In 2014, she was included in the TIME list of the 100 most influential people. Kelly was born in Champaign, Illinois, to Edward Kelly, who taught at the State University of New York at Albany, and Linda, a homemaker. She is of Italian and German descent on her mother’s side and Irish descent onHer father’s. Her father died of a heart attack when she was 15 years old. Kelly attended Tecumseh Elementary School in suburban Syracuse, New York. She obtained an undergraduate degree in political science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 1992 and earned a J. D. from Albany Law School in 1995. In 2003, Kelly moved to Washington, D. C., where she was hired by the ABC affiliate WJLA-TV as a general assignment reporter. She covered national and local events, including live coverage of the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. and Chief Justice John G. Roberts. Kelly received media attention for her coverage of the 2012 United States presidential election.
She appeared on a weekly segment on The O’Reilly Factor and occasionally filled in for Greta Van Susteren on On the Record, where most of her reporting focused on legal and political matters. She occasionally contributed as an anchor, but more often as a substitute anchor on weekends. Kelly left Fox News in January 2017 and joined NBC News. She started hosting the third hour of the morning show Today in September 2017. Her show was cancelled in October 2018, after a segment discussing blackface, and she left the network in January 2019. In fall 1996, Kelly co-wrote an article for the American Bar Association’s journal, Litigation, \”The Conflicting Roles of Lawyer as Director\”. She later worked at Jones Day for nine years, where one of her clients was the credit bureau Experian. In 2010, Kelly began hosting her own two-hour afternoon show, America Live, which replaced The Live Desk. She also hosted The Kelly File from October 2013 to January 2017. In December 2013, Kelly commented on a Slate.com article that Jesus was a white man in the Bible. Kelly later said that maybe we should also have a black Santa, but that maybe that person is just arguing that he is also white.
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