Donna Fiducia (born December 5, 1956) is an American media personality who worked in New York television and radio for 26 years, most recently as an anchor at The Fox News Channel.

Career

Fiducia was hired by the Fox News Channel in New York in September 1999 as an anchor and live host. In 2003, she was reassigned to overnight duty where she was both a long-form and news update anchorwoman. In late 2006, she retired from Fox and relocated to Georgia. Prior to this, she had worked at Fox-owned

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in New York City. In her four years at WNYW, she was a general assignment reporter for the 10 o'clock news. She also anchored ''Good Day New York'' and ''Good Day Sunday'', where she anchored the news as well as performing celebrity and lifestyle interviews. Fiducia gained national recognition as the host of ''Entertainment Watch'' on

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, featuring entertainment news and celebrity interviews from movie stars to musicians. She became New York's first television helicopter traffic reporter at

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in 1995. She was also a general assignment reporter for ''Live At Five'', the 6 and 11 o'clock news and ''Weekend Today''. Fiducia began her career at Shadow Traffic in New York. She went on to report from

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Radio's "N Copter", where she worked daily with

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and

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. She was news director and morning news anchor of the famed rock radio station

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. Fiducia did some acting in the first rap-influenced feature-length movie, ''Tougher Than Leather'' with

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, and on the 1980

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television show '' The Equalizer'' in which she played a newscaster. In 2006, she was in the movie ''Being Michael Madsen'' in which she again played a reporter.

Education

Fiducia graduated from

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in Maplewood, New Jersey in 1975, and graduated magna cum laude from

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with degrees in communications and political science. She was active in the college's radio station,

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. Fiducia also studied flute and piccolo during this time.

Cowboy Logic Radio

In 2013, Fiducia co-founded WDFP-Restoring America Radio, an Internet-based Conservative Talk Radio network. She co-hosts Cowboy Logic Radio with Don Neuen. Fiducia and Neuen partnered with Major General Paul E. Vallely and his organization, Stand Up America US and are members of the Stand Up America US Kitchen Cabinet of Advisors.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fiducia, Donna American television reporters and correspondents Seton Hall University alumni 1956 births Living people People from Maplewood, New Jersey