Fox News Channel marks its 30th anniversary with staff reflections

Right · 2Fox News Channel is marking its 30th anniversary, and the coverage so far comes from the Washington Examiner and from Fox News itself. 1 2 Right · 1In the Washington Examiner, three Fox anchors (Laura Ingraham, Steve Doocy and Harris Faulkner) spoke to the paper about the channel's past and future. 1 Right · 1Ingraham, host of The Ingraham Angle, said many people expected Fox not to last compared with NBC and other media giants. She said Fox, like the United States, was "underestimated from the start". 1

Right · 1Doocy, who joined when the network launched in 1996 delivering weather reports and became a founding co-host of Fox & Friends in 1998, said the channel's coverage of 9/11 built audience trust. He became a traveling co-host of the show in May 2025. 1 Right · 1Doocy predicted Fox will remain "the dominant news voice for a lot of people in 30 years", while noting that news consumption is moving toward personal technology. 1 Right · 1Faulkner, who anchors The Faulkner Focus and co-hosts Outnumbered, tied Fox's identity to free speech and American exceptionalism. She said the audience's expectations have changed but that people still turn to television when big events happen, and that the question for the next 30 years is whether Fox stays relevant. 1

Right · 1In an opinion piece on foxnews.com, host Jimmy Failla, a former New York City cab driver, congratulated colleagues and described the network's headquarters ("1211") as a community where "Fox News is a family, on-air and off". 2 Right · 1Failla credited behind-the-scenes staff for the channel's success and wrote that Fox is "so dominant on so many platforms"; the piece links to other anniversary essays by Martha MacCallum, Jennifer Griffin, Lauren Green and Dana Perino. 2