Harris Faulkner Honored as Broadcast Journalist of Year by Multicultural Media and Correspondents Association
The Multicultural Media and Correspondents Association honored Harris Faulkner as its Broadcast Journalist of the Year during the sixth annual Multicultural Media Correspondents Dinner and Summit. Taking place at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the event honored BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and other People of Color) media industry luminaries.
Faulkner joined Fox News Channel in 2005 and anchors The Faulkner Focus, a daily daytime show, and hosts Outnumbered. Additionally, she hosts her own primetime political franchise called Town Hall America with Harris Faulkner, states Wikipedia.
Faulkner accepted the award and commented, “The road to get to this point, has never been just about my race, ethnicity, culture or any of the immutable or unchangeable demographics. The main ingredients are critically more powerful than that. I was born and raised on military bases across the US and even Stuttgart, Germany. I am the daughter of an amazing officer’s wife and kindergarten teacher and social worker whose family was a mix of Haitian and Native American.
“And I’m the daughter of a military combat pilot who came from the sticks of east Texas. My parents taught me that our skin color and hair texture will always identify us to people who choose only to see that. But, we must work hard to ensure our success reflects our individual gifts, diversity of thought and experience. I’m now teaching my biracial daughters the power of individualism based on what you cannot see at first. Tonight, we celebrate the fact that journalism, like so many other parts of American life, works best when it represents the widest variety of humanity. There are two things that drive the narrative for me and my family: service and leadership.”
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