On Tuesday, August 9, 2022, founding Fox News Channel anchor Uma Pemmaraju died at the age of 64.
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FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scot, eulogized Uma Pemmaraju, saying;
“We are deeply saddened by the death of Uma Pemmaraju, who was one of FOX News Channel’s founding anchors and was on the air the day we launched.
“Uma was an incredibly talented journalist as well as a warm and lovely person, best known for her kindness to everyone she worked with. We extend our heartfelt condolences to her entire family.”
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Uma’s first role at the news channel was anchoring Fox News Now and Fox On Trends. However, she left the network but rejoined once again in 2003 as an anchor fill-in host on the channel.
Uma also hosted other programs on the cable network including Fox News Live and The Fox Report interviewing many high-profile newsmakers, including the Dalai Lama.
Born in India but raised in San Antonio, Texas having moved there at the age of six, Uma learned her journalism skills working at local television stations in Dallas, Baltimore and then WBZ Boston.
Uma won Emmy Award for a report about the rescue of a child who nearly drowned in Baltimore.
She has a Wikipedia page.
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