Jenna Lee
Encyclopedia
Jennifer Anne "Jenna" Lee (born May 30, 1980) is an American journalist and anchor on the Fox News Channel
, where she co-hosts Happening Now
with Jon Scott
. Lee previously co-anchored Fox Business Network
's early-morning business news program, Fox Business Morning
, with Connell McShane
.
, with a Bachelor of Arts
in English
and Global & International Studies
with emphasis on politics
and socioeconomics
. She also holds a Master of Science
degree in Journalism
from Columbia University
. She had a double major in college and worked 30 hours a week during this time. Lee played Women's Varsity college softball
at UC Santa Barbara in the 1999 season while in college.
Jenna Lee's father Bob Lee
was an NFL
quarterback
who played in two Super Bowl
s and threw a touchdown pass in Super Bowl XI
. Her brother Zac Lee
is presently a backup quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks
and formerly for the University of Nebraska for the 2010 season, after major surgery in the offseason and led them to the 2009 Big 12 North Division title and a win in the Holiday Bowl
. Her grandfather was a war correspondent
for the Associated Press
in San Francisco. She has also appeared on the CBS Early Show discussing the stock markets.
were the first two anchors on the air when Fox Business News
made its debut on October 15, 2007.
Before joining FBN, Lee worked for Forbes.com as a news anchor and reporter. During that time, she conducted interviews with various leaders in the business
community, both on-set and in the field, and covered multiple beats, including investing, the leisure
industry
, alternative business practices and international news. While at Forbes, Lee was trying to land a job in television and was turned down a number of times. She is quoted in a New York Daily News
story on her as saying "It got to the point where I said, 'I have to do this, there's no other option. There's no other conversation to be had, even if that meant I was going to move somewhere."
Lee appeared on Sky News
in the UK, broadcasting live from Fox Business News studio, updating viewers on the state of the US economy. She has appeared on Fox Business from San Francisco and London
, and is based in New York City
.
Lee started hosting Fox Business News Live on foxbusiness.com on February 9, 2009 with her last broadcast on September 25, 2009. She was a regular contributor to the television show Inside Edition
. On March 27, 2009 and March 30, 2009, Lee co-hosted Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, substituting for Juliet Huddy. She also has appeared on the Fox broadcast Sunday morning news show Fox News Sunday
as a guest in April 2009. During her time at FBN, she has also hosted the Fox News Channel
morning show Fox and Friends. Lee also appeared every weekday morning on the FBN show Money for Breakfast
with news updates and has hosted the show in the past in place of Alexis Glick
. She is also a contributor for the Daily Beast.
Fox Business Morning and Money for Breakfast are currently both off the air as Fox Business Network began airing the Don Imus
radio show in their old time slot on October 5, 2009. Lee appears on a new web based show on foxbusiness.com airing from 6-9 am eastern that started on October 5, 2009.
Lee appeared in the September 2009 edition of Cosmo
complete with a photo spread. In October interviews with MarketWatch
and AskMen, she describes herself as "unremarkable" and "introverted", while co-worker Liz Claman
says she is "driven". Jenna Lee is currently number 75 on the Ask Men list of Top 99 Women of the World which came out in October 2009. With Alexis Glick
leaving FBN on 23 December 2009, Lee was mentioned in a Los Angeles Times
story as being an anchor who would possibly take over the FBN show The Opening Bell on Fox Business
. The job went to another anchor on the network, with Lee taking an expanded role on Imus in the Morning
and the web show. The last airing of Fox Business Morning was May 7, 2010. The show was canceled later in the day to make room for an extra hour of the Best of Imus radio show from previous days with live business news cut-ins. Lee left Fox Business Network in July 2010 and joined their sister network Fox News Channel, where she replaced Jane Skinner
as Jon Scott
's co-anchor on Happening Now
.
Lee appeared in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps
.
in Beaumont, Texas
, and a 1998 graduate of the United States Naval Academy
in a ceremony at the Old Glory Ranch in Wimberley, Texas
.
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
, where she co-hosts Happening Now
Happening Now
Happening Now is a news program broadcast on the Fox News Channel weekdays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.-About the show:The show is hosted by Jon Scott and Jenna Lee with breaking news updates from Harris Faulkner and Rick Folbaum. Happening Now replaced the 11am-1pm ET block of Fox News Live in 2007...
with Jon Scott
Jon Scott
Jon Scott is an American television news anchor, co-hosting Happening Now from 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET with Jenna Lee on Fox News Channel.-Personal life and education:...
. Lee previously co-anchored Fox Business Network
Fox Business Network
Fox Business Network is an American cable news and satellite news television channel that began broadcasting on October 15, 2007. It is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation...
's early-morning business news program, Fox Business Morning
Fox Business Morning
Fox Business Morning was an early morning business newscast that aired on the Fox Business Network from 5-7am Eastern Time. Anchored by Jenna Lee and Connell McShane, it was the first show to be aired on the network when it launched October 15, 2007...
, with Connell McShane
Connell McShane
Connell McShane is an anchor and correspondent on the Fox Business Network, which he joined when the network was launched in October 2007. He anchors the 11amET hour of Fox Business and contributes to Imus in the Morning...
.
Early life
Jenna Lee is a graduate of the University of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
, with a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and Global & International Studies
International studies
International Studies generally refers to the specific University Degrees and courses which are concerned with the study of ‘the major political, economic, social, cultural and sacral issues that dominate the international agenda’...
with emphasis on politics
Politics
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
and socioeconomics
Socioeconomics
Socioeconomics or socio-economics or social economics is an umbrella term with different usages. 'Social economics' may refer broadly to the "use of economics in the study of society." More narrowly, contemporary practice considers behavioral interactions of individuals and groups through social...
. She also holds a Master of Science
Master of Science
A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...
degree in Journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. She had a double major in college and worked 30 hours a week during this time. Lee played Women's Varsity college softball
College softball
College softball is softball as played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education, predominantly in the United States. College softball is normally played by women at the intercollegiate level, whereas college baseball is normally played by men.As with other intercollegiate...
at UC Santa Barbara in the 1999 season while in college.
Jenna Lee's father Bob Lee
Bob Lee (American football)
Robert Melville Lee is a former professional American football player. He graduated from Lowell High School in 1963. Nicknamed "General" Bob Lee during a brief period of success with the Atlanta Falcons, Lee was selected in the 17th round by the Minnesota Vikings in the 1968 NFL Draft...
was an NFL
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
quarterback
Quarterback
Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...
who played in two Super Bowl
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League , the highest level of professional American football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather...
s and threw a touchdown pass in Super Bowl XI
Super Bowl XI
Super Bowl XI was a football game played on January 9, 1977 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California to decide the National Football League champion following the 1976 regular season...
. Her brother Zac Lee
Zac Lee
Zac Lee is an American football quarterback for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League. He was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football at Nebraska....
is presently a backup quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team...
and formerly for the University of Nebraska for the 2010 season, after major surgery in the offseason and led them to the 2009 Big 12 North Division title and a win in the Holiday Bowl
Holiday Bowl
The Holiday Bowl is a post-season NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A college football bowl game that has been played annually at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California, since 1978. Beginning with the 2010 playing the bowl will officially be known as the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl after...
. Her grandfather was a war correspondent
War correspondent
A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war zone. In the 19th century they were also called Special Correspondents.-Methods:...
for the Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
in San Francisco. She has also appeared on the CBS Early Show discussing the stock markets.
Career
Lee and Nicole PetallidesNicole Petallides
Nicole Anais Petallides is an anchor for the Fox Business Network, which began broadcasting on October 15, 2007. Petallides, along with Jenna Lee, were the two first two anchors on the air when the network made its debut....
were the first two anchors on the air when Fox Business News
Fox Business Network
Fox Business Network is an American cable news and satellite news television channel that began broadcasting on October 15, 2007. It is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation...
made its debut on October 15, 2007.
Before joining FBN, Lee worked for Forbes.com as a news anchor and reporter. During that time, she conducted interviews with various leaders in the business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
community, both on-set and in the field, and covered multiple beats, including investing, the leisure
Leisure
Leisure, or free time, is time spent away from business, work, and domestic chores. It is also the periods of time before or after necessary activities such as eating, sleeping and, where it is compulsory, education....
industry
Industry
Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
, alternative business practices and international news. While at Forbes, Lee was trying to land a job in television and was turned down a number of times. She is quoted in a New York Daily News
New York Daily News
The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....
story on her as saying "It got to the point where I said, 'I have to do this, there's no other option. There's no other conversation to be had, even if that meant I was going to move somewhere."
Lee appeared on Sky News
Sky News
Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...
in the UK, broadcasting live from Fox Business News studio, updating viewers on the state of the US economy. She has appeared on Fox Business from San Francisco and London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, and is based in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
Lee started hosting Fox Business News Live on foxbusiness.com on February 9, 2009 with her last broadcast on September 25, 2009. She was a regular contributor to the television show Inside Edition
Inside Edition
Inside Edition is a thirty-minute American television syndicated news program, first aired on CBS on October 9, 1988. It was originally similar to the programs Hard Copy and A Current Affair, but now more closely resembles a condensed version of breakfast television, exclusively with pre-recorded...
. On March 27, 2009 and March 30, 2009, Lee co-hosted Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, substituting for Juliet Huddy. She also has appeared on the Fox broadcast Sunday morning news show Fox News Sunday
Fox News Sunday
Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace is a public affairs program on the Fox network, hosted by Chris Wallace and airing on Sunday mornings. The show began on April 28, 1996, which predated the launch of Fox News Channel, and usually talks about items similar to Sunday morning talk shows...
as a guest in April 2009. During her time at FBN, she has also hosted the Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
morning show Fox and Friends. Lee also appeared every weekday morning on the FBN show Money for Breakfast
Money for Breakfast
Money for Breakfast was a morning business program which aired on the Fox Business Network weekdays from 7-9am Eastern Time. Its main competitor was CNBC's Squawk Box.-About the program:...
with news updates and has hosted the show in the past in place of Alexis Glick
Alexis Glick
Alexis Glick is an American television personality who was an anchor of Money for Breakfast and The Opening Bell on Fox Business Network , as well as the channel's Vice President of Business News...
. She is also a contributor for the Daily Beast.
Fox Business Morning and Money for Breakfast are currently both off the air as Fox Business Network began airing the Don Imus
Don Imus
John Donald "Don" Imus, Jr. is an American radio host, humorist, philanthropist and writer. His nationally-syndicated talk show, Imus in the Morning, is broadcast throughout the United States by Citadel Media and relayed on television by the Fox Business Network.-Personal life:Imus was born in...
radio show in their old time slot on October 5, 2009. Lee appears on a new web based show on foxbusiness.com airing from 6-9 am eastern that started on October 5, 2009.
Lee appeared in the September 2009 edition of Cosmo
Cosmo
Cosmo may refer to:*Cosmo , a surnameCosmo may also refer to:-Anime:* Cosmo Police Justy, 1985 Japanese anime* Cosmo Ranger, alternate name of the 1982-1983 Japanese anime Baxinger...
complete with a photo spread. In October interviews with MarketWatch
MarketWatch
MarketWatch operates a financial information website that provides business news, analysis and stock market data to some 6 million people. MarketWatch offers personal finance news and advice, tools for investors and access to industry research. Along with its flagship website, the company operates...
and AskMen, she describes herself as "unremarkable" and "introverted", while co-worker Liz Claman
Liz Claman
Elizabeth Kate "Liz" Claman is the anchor of the Fox Business Network show Countdown to the Closing Bell at 3pm ET and co-anchor at 2pm ET and 4pm ET of Fox Business on the Fox Business Network alongside co-anchor David Asman. She was previously the co-anchor of the CNBC morning television...
says she is "driven". Jenna Lee is currently number 75 on the Ask Men list of Top 99 Women of the World which came out in October 2009. With Alexis Glick
Alexis Glick
Alexis Glick is an American television personality who was an anchor of Money for Breakfast and The Opening Bell on Fox Business Network , as well as the channel's Vice President of Business News...
leaving FBN on 23 December 2009, Lee was mentioned in a Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
story as being an anchor who would possibly take over the FBN show The Opening Bell on Fox Business
The Opening Bell on Fox Business
The Opening Bell on Fox Business is an American business news program airing on the Fox Business Network at 9:00am Eastern Time and was hosted by Alexis Glick until December 23, 2009...
. The job went to another anchor on the network, with Lee taking an expanded role on Imus in the Morning
Imus in the Morning
Imus in the Morning is an American radio show hosted by Don Imus on Cumulus Media Networks , and simulcast for television on Fox Business Network....
and the web show. The last airing of Fox Business Morning was May 7, 2010. The show was canceled later in the day to make room for an extra hour of the Best of Imus radio show from previous days with live business news cut-ins. Lee left Fox Business Network in July 2010 and joined their sister network Fox News Channel, where she replaced Jane Skinner
Jane Skinner
Jane Skinner is a former daytime news anchor who worked for Fox News Channel, co-hosting Happening Now with Jon Scott from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET...
as Jon Scott
Jon Scott
Jon Scott is an American television news anchor, co-hosting Happening Now from 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET with Jenna Lee on Fox News Channel.-Personal life and education:...
's co-anchor on Happening Now
Happening Now
Happening Now is a news program broadcast on the Fox News Channel weekdays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.-About the show:The show is hosted by Jon Scott and Jenna Lee with breaking news updates from Harris Faulkner and Rick Folbaum. Happening Now replaced the 11am-1pm ET block of Fox News Live in 2007...
.
Lee appeared in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps
Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, also known as Wall Street 2, is a 2010 American drama film directed by Oliver Stone, a sequel to Wall Street . Michael Douglas reprises his role as Gordon Gekko with Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, and Frank Langella also starring in the film. The...
.
Personal Life
On July 3, 2011, Lee married B. Leif Babin, a Navy SEAL Officer, a 1994 graduate of Monsignor Kelly Catholic High SchoolMonsignor Kelly Catholic High School
Monsignor Kelly Catholic High School is a parochial, Roman Catholic high school in Beaumont, Texas. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont. A majority of students at Kelly come from various grade schools within the Diocese of Beaumont and one Episcopalian elementary and middle...
in Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont is a city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 118,296 at the 2010 census. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the...
, and a 1998 graduate of the United States Naval Academy
United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in Annapolis, Maryland, United States...
in a ceremony at the Old Glory Ranch in Wimberley, Texas
Wimberley, Texas
Wimberley is a small town in Hays County, Texas, United States. Prior to its incorporation in May 2000, it was a census-designated place . The population was 2,626 at the 2010 census.-History:...
.