Griffin Secured as FOX News National Security Head

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She’s known for her decades of reporting on matters of national security and on Middle East issues and events.


Now, she’s just signed a new multi-year agreement with FOX News Media that makes her the Chief National Security Correspondent for FOX News Channel.

Earning the role is Jennifer Griffin.

In making the announcement, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott called Griffin “one of the industry’s premier journalists,” an individual who she says “has proven to be an indispensable asset on a consequential beat with unrivaled experience spanning more than three decades in multiple war zones. We are extremely proud that she will continue her incredible career at FOX News Media.”

Griffin added, “It has been an honor to provide viewers with trusted reporting from the Pentagon and across the world on issues that are paramount to all of us – the security and safety of our fellow citizens and allies. I am looking forward to continuing to inform the FOX News audience alongside the best journalists in the business.”

Griffin will receive the 2022 “Freedom of the Media” Gold Medal for Public Service award from the Transatlantic Leadership Network on Saturday evening in honor of her extensive body of work.

Most recently, Griffin traveled to Lviv and Kyiv, Ukraine to cover Russian’s invasion of Ukraine.

During her tenure at Fox News  she also provided coverage of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012; the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011; and the Iraq War, among numerous other events.

Prior to serving as the network’s national security correspondent, Griffin was the network’s Jerusalem-based correspondent, joining FNC as a full-time correspondent in 1999. Previously, she reported from Moscow, Russia in a freelance capacity for FNC from 1996-1999.

Before joining FNC, Griffin covered the Middle East region for NPR.