Aishah Hasnie
Aishah Hasnie | |
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Born | Lahore, Pakistan | October 5, 1984
Occupation | Television reporter |
Years active | 2006–present |
Employer | Fox Entertainment Group |
Aishah Hasnie (born October 5, 1984) is a Pakistani-American television journalist and congressional correspondent for The Fox News Channel based in Washington, D.C..
Biography
Hasnie was born in Lahore, Pakistan on October 5, 1984. Many of Hasnie’s relatives in Pakistan are journalists as her mother belongs to the Zuberi family. Her uncle was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy who sponsored her family to emigrate to the United States. She was raised in Bedford, Indiana, where she graduated in 2002 from Bedford North Lawrence High School. Hasnie graduated with a B.A. in journalism from Indiana University, where she was a Dick Yoakam Broadcast Journalism Scholar. During school, she interned as an on-air reporter at WICS-TV in Springfield, Illinois (where her cousin, Maira Ansari, was a reporter), WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, and GEO-TV in Pakistan. After school, she accepted a position as investigative reporter and fill-in anchor at WANE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she was nominated for an Emmy Award for an investigative report on voyeurism In 2011, she accepted a position as investigative reporter at WXIN-TV (FOX59) in Indianapolis and also served as anchor of First at Four. In January 2019, she accepted a position at Fox News in New York City as an overnight anchor and news correspondent. In August 2021, she was named congressional correspondent for Fox News. Hasnie also serves as a regular guest host of Fox News Live, America's Newsroom and America Reports.
Hasnie is a religious Muslim, and prays five times a day.
Hasnie has been recognized for her work by the Indiana Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2020, Hasnie was named a New York Woman of Impact by Variety for her coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2022, Hasnie began her term as a board member of USA for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
See also
- American television reporters and correspondents
- Living people
- Bedford North Lawrence High School alumni
- Journalists from Indiana
- American women television journalists
- Fox News people
- Indiana University alumni
- American writers of Pakistani descent
- People from Bedford, Indiana
- Pakistani emigrants to the United States
- 1980s births
- Journalists from Lahore
- 21st-century American women
- American Muslims
- Television anchors from Indianapolis