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Leland Vittert is the Emmy-nominated anchor of America’s News Headquarters on Fox News Channel (FNC).^{[1][2][3][4][5]} He joined the network in 2010 as a foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem.^[6][7][8][9]

In addition to his weekend anchor and reporting duties, Vittert fills in for hosts on Fox and Friends, America’s Newsroom, and Happening Now.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}

Vittert’s coverage of the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore was praised by many.^{[15][16][17][18]} According to Mediaite, Vittert “made his mark…by standing among protesters, facing a silent line of riot police, while interviewing residents and demonstrators affected by the story in various ways. He [broke] news about the Baltimore mayor’s alleged stand-down orders for police, and [had] tense question-and-answer exchanges with lawmakers and public figures throughout the city.”^[19][20][21]

Arriving in the Middle East in 2010, Vittert began following the Arab Spring.^[22] In 2011, he was one of the few reporters live on the ground in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on the night that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak left power.^[23] Vittert subsequently traveled to Libya during the first days of the country's revolution, where he reported on Muammar Gadaffi's counterattack and later from the besieged city of Misurata.^[24][25]

Vittert covered Operation Pillar of Cloud, the 2012 war between Israel and Hamas.^[26][27][28] He has interviewed Muhammad al-Zawahiri, the brother of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, and a failed Palestinian suicide bomber.^[29][30][31]

Before coming to Washington, D.C. in 2014, Vittert spent a month in eastern Ukraine as Russian-backed militias took over parts of the country.^[32][33]

Vittert is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.^[34][35] He also studied at the London School of Economics.^[36][37]

Prior to joining FNC, Vittert anchored the weekend news at KDVR-TV (FOX 31) in Denver, Colorado and was a reporter for WFTV-TV (ABC 9) in Orlando, Florida. He also worked at other national news stations, including KATV-TV (ABC 7) in Little Rock, Arkansas; KNWA-TV (NBC 50) in Fayetteville, Arkansas; and WMTV-TV (NBC 15) in Madison, Wisconsin.^[38]

As a young reporter, Vittert received an Emmy nomination for clearing a police officer wrongly accused of rape.^[39][40][41]

Described as “dapper and well-spoken,” Vittert won Westword’s “Best Hair on a TV Anchor Award” in 2007.^[42][43] His sister, Liberty Vittert, is a television chef, specialising in the cuisine of the United States of America, particularly on her show, Liberty's Great American Cookbook. She is also a professor of mathematics and applied statistics at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.^[44][45][46]

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