Trace Gallagher
Trace Gallagher | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tracy G. Gallagher September 10, 1961 San Diego, California, U.S |
| Education | University of San Diego |
| Occupations |
|
| Employer | Fox News |
| Spouse | Tracy Holmes (1995-present) |
| Children | 2 |
Tracy G. Gallagher is an American journalist and the anchor of Fox News @ Night, Fox News' late-night news program.
Background
[edit]Gallagher grew up in the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes, California where he was a quarterback for the Mammoth Huskies high school football team. He graduated from high school in 1979. Gallagher studied at the University of San Diego; he majored in business[1] and played quarterback for the Torero football team.[2]
Fox News
[edit]Based in Los Angeles, Gallagher worked as a co-anchor (with Martha MacCallum) of The Live Desk and as a substitute anchor for Studio B with Shepard Smith and Fox Report. During his time at Fox, Gallagher has reported on the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami.[1] Gallagher has also served as a general assignment correspondent.
He has worked at Fox's Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City news bureaus. Previously Gallagher worked at WCPX (now WKMG) in Orlando, KVBC (now KSNV) in Las Vegas, and KTVB in Boise.
On February 1, 2010, The Live Desk was replaced with America Live with Megyn Kelly. Gallagher continues to anchor and report on Fox programs.[3]
In 2020, while discussing defund the police policy, Gallagher referred to recent comments by James Clyburn who claimed that the movement had hurt his fellow Democrats in elections. When asked, Gallagher was unable to name a single member of Congress who had actually advanced the policy.[4]
On September 21, 2022, he was named permanent host of Fox News @ Night, replacing founding host Shannon Bream after she was named host of Fox News Sunday. He has been hosting the program since October 3, 2022 and is based in the Fox Los Angeles studios.[5][6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Trace Gallagher | Fox News". Fox News. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
- ↑ "1982 University of San Diego FOOTBALL YEARBOOK". University of San Diego. 1982. pp. 4, 8. Retrieved November 5, 2020 – via digital.sandiego.edu.
- ↑ Gold, Matea (January 20, 2010). "Fox News gives anchor Megyn Kelly her own two-hour show". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Meyer, Ken (November 9, 2020). "Fox's Trace Gallagher Caught Flat-Footed When Asked to Name a Member of Congress Who Advanced Defunding the Police". Mediaite.
- ↑ "Trace Gallagher Takes Anchor Chair at 'Fox News @ Night'". September 21, 2022.
- ↑ "Trace Gallagher". Media Matters for America. June 28, 2018. Retrieved May 26, 2024.
External links
[edit] | This biographical article related to television journalism in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |
 | This article about an American journalist born in the 1960s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |
- 1961 births
- Living people
- American male journalists
- American television journalists
- Fox News people
- Journalists from Arizona
- Journalists from Idaho
- Journalists from Illinois
- Journalists from Las Vegas
- Television news anchors from Orlando, Florida
- Television news anchors from San Diego
- Television personalities from California
- Mass media people from Greater Los Angeles
- University of San Diego alumni
- People from Mammoth Lakes, California
- American television journalist stubs
- American journalist, 1960s birth stubs
