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President, Talent Development – FOX News Media

Lauren Petterson joined FOX News Media in 2008 and is currently the President of FOX Nation, a role to which she was named in late 2023. She also serves as the President of Talent Development for FOX News Media.

Prior to FOX Nation, Ms. Petterson served as the President of FBN since 2019 while also running Talent Development. Under her direction, FBN remained the leading business channel on cable, defeating CNBC in business day (9-5 PM) total viewership from 2021-2023. She also launched FBN Prime, a series of nightly aspirational lifestyle shows as well as new popular programs including Kudlow, one of the highest rated shows in business news, The Big Money Show and The Bottom Line.

Prior to FBN, Ms. Petterson served as the Senior Vice President of Morning Programming & Talent Development where she oversaw the entire FOX & Friends franchise for 11 years of its now 22-year reign as the number one morning show. She took on the Talent Development role in 2016 and has been responsible for the hiring process of many new correspondents, anchors, and contributors.

Ms. Petterson began her initial stint at FOX News as the senior producer of FOX & Friends in 2007 and left for a position at WCBS-TV for one year. She returned to FNC as the popular morning show’s executive producer in 2008. From that point on, she rose through the ranks to Senior Executive Producer and later Vice President of Morning Programming.

Before re-joining FNC in 2008, Ms. Petterson was an executive producer at New York’s CBS 2 News at 11PM newscast where she led a team that won two local Emmy awards for Best Evening Newscast and Best Spot News. Prior to that and before initially joining FNC, she was the executive producer of WPIX-TV’s WB11 Morning News in New York from 2001 to 2007. While there, she was part of a team that won two local Emmy awards and an Associated Press Broadcasters Association award. Before that, she served as a producer at WCBS-TV’s 4pm weekday newscast for two years.

Ms. Petterson began her television career in 1997 at WNYT NewsChannel 13 in Albany, NY and later became an associate producer at News12 Long Island and a production assistant/associate producer for WNBC-TV’s signature afternoon program Live at Five. She is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University at Albany, SUNY with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications.