Megyn Kelly

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Megyn Kelly (2018)

Megyn Marie Kelly , sometimes known as Megyn Kendall (born November 18, 1970 in Syracuse , New York ), is an American journalist and television presenter. She worked for Fox News for many years . From 2017 to 2018 she worked for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).

Family, education and work

Megyn Kelly is the daughter of educationalist Edward Kelly, who taught at SUNY University at Albany , and his wife, Linda, a housewife of Italian ancestry. She studied Political Science at Syracuse University and received a Juris Doctor from Albany Law School in 1995 . For nearly ten years she worked as a corporate attorney in major law firms in New York City , Chicago and Washington, DC From 2001 until her divorce in 2006 , Kelly was married to a doctor whose surname was Kendall at the time. On March 1, 2008, Kelly married the author and entrepreneur Douglas Brunt. You have three children.

Media career

Megyn Kelly (2012)

Kelly has been a journalist since retiring as a lawyer in 2003. First she was a freelance reporter for the Washington television station WJLA-TV , which belongs to the broadcaster ABC , and in 2004 she switched to the conservative news channel Fox News . Kelly was first used there as a court reporter : She reported, for example, on the death of William Rehnquist , the presiding judge of the Supreme Court , and on the charges against Tom DeLay , the then Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives .

Due to her popularity with the audience, Kelly got her own section on the Brit Hume show, as well as her own Saturday show. Kelly moderated along with Bill Hemmer the news program America's Newsroom , the Fox News weekdays 9:00 to 11:00 ( Eastern Time ) in New York aired. The Washington Post points out in an article that the station in America's Newsroom is cleverly playing with the presenter's sexual stimuli by having her present in costumes that reveal her long legs ("Leggy Meggy"), and her sits on a free-standing moderator's chair that allows the audience to look at it without a desk blocking the view. Since October 2013, she has hosted her own political program The Kelly File , which was composed of live reporting, background reports and conversations, on Fridays from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. (East Coast time) following Bill O'Reilly's well-known program The O'Reilly Factor .

At the height of her success, she announced in 2017 that she was going to join the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), where she was getting a new show of her own. In September 2017, Megyn Kelly Today aired on NBC ; the show, in which Kelly expressly did not want to offer political journalism but rather entertainment, drew criticism from the start and since then has had to struggle with steadily falling audience ratings. On October 26, 2018, NBC announced that it would be canceling the show.

reception

In December 2013, Megyn Kelly sparked a public discussion in the US when she said on a broadcast that Jesus and Santa Claus were definitely " white ". Her statement was in response to a posting by blogger Aisha Harris , who spoke out against a one-sided presentation of Santa Claus. In order to circumvent the criterion of skin color, Harris had proposed as a mind game that the figure be represented by a penguin . Several days later Kelly asserted that she had just made a "joke" and was now being attacked by people who hated "the very powerful Fox News Channel", did not understand jokes and "only accept the worst of people".

In August 2015, she came into conflict with the candidate Donald Trump in the first television debate among the Republican primary candidates for the 2016 US presidency by addressing his earlier misogynistic statements. Her questions, to which Trump reacted disgruntled, earned her worldwide attention. The British Guardian declared her “the real winner of the debate” and the journalist Wolfram Weimer “person of the week”. Nine months later, Trump and Kelly reconciled during an interview at Trump Tower .

In July 2016, Kelly accused Fox News CEO Roger Ailes of sexually harassing her. Ailes' attorney denied the allegations. Several days later, Ailes, who had previously been accused by other women, resigned. Kelly later elaborated the allegations against Ailes in her autobiography.

Kelly came under fire in October 2018 after defending Blackfacing on her show . Shortly thereafter, she apologized and stated that she had now understood that blackfacing was perceived as hurtful and racist. Even so, NBC fired her shortly thereafter.

In the 2019 film drama Bombshell , Kelly was portrayed by Charlize Theron .

literature

Web links

Commons : Megyn Kelly  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ben Dickinson: How Fox's Megyn Kelly Got to the Top, and Why She's Probably There to Stay. In: Elle , January 20, 2014 (English).
  2. ^ The Kelly File. ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: FOXNews (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.foxnews.com
  3. ↑ Jim Rutenberg: Megyn Kelly Is Said to Be Leaving Fox News for NBC . In: The New York Times . January 3, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed January 3, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Anna Günther: What skin color does Santa have? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 16, 2013.
  5. ^ Corky Siemaszko: Fox News' Megyn Kelly declares Jesus and Santa were white. In: Daily News . December 12, 2013, accessed December 13, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Aisha Harris: Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Anymore. In: Slate , December 10, 2013.
  7. ↑ White Christmas. In: Spiegel Online , December 16, 2013. See her later reflection on Lamar Salter, Alyson Shontell: Megyn Kelly: 'I regret a lot' of the controversial stuff I've said. In: Business Insider , November 29, 2017.
  8. ↑ Inga Catharina Thomas: This Fox woman likes to over the mouths of the Republicans. In: Welt.de , August 10, 2015.
  9. ^ Nigel M. Smith: Forget Donald Trump - Megyn Kelly Won the Republican Debate. In: The Guardian , August 8, 2015.
  10. ↑ Wolfram Weimer: The woman who stumbles Donald Trump. In: n-tv.de , August 11, 2015; Nina Rehfeld: Now let's stay with our business. In: FAZ.net , February 3, 2016.
  11. ↑ Megyn Kelly reconciles with Donald Trump. In: Spiegel Online , May 18, 2016.
  12. ↑ Report: Megyn Kelly told Fox investigators Ailes sexually harassed her, too. In: USA Today , July 19, 2016.
  13. ↑ Fox News chief Roger Ailes denies harassing Megyn Kelly. In: Chicago Tribune , July 22, 2016.
  14. ↑ Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly Says in Memoir That Ex-CEO Roger Ailes Harassed Her. In: The Wall Street Journal , November 3, 2016.
  15. ↑ Megyn Kelly Off Air Rest of the Week. In: Huffington Post , October 25, 2018.
  16. ↑ Blackfacing: NBC fires Megyn Kelly . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 26, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Kelly, Megyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kelly, Megyn Marie (full name); Kendall, Megyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Syracuse , New York