Effective blonde is often shown on TV when she announces the latest US sanctions or says that Russia is behaving categorically wrong. Heather Nauert has not yet become the same universal "favorite" of Russian TV viewers as Jane Psaki, one of her predecessors as the press secretary of the US State Department, but she is quite equal to her in terms of the number of anti-Russian pearls.
Early years
The famous TV presenter was born on January 27, 1970 in the Midwest of the USA in the small town of Rockford, Illinois. Her father was the chief executive of an insurance company. She has three brothers: Jonathan, Justin and Joseph. The surname Heather Nauert is of German origin, in addition, among her ancestors there are Danes and Englishmen.
She received her higher education at the private women's colleges Pine Manor in Massachusetts and Mount Vernon in Washington (later included inUniversity of Washington). There she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in media. Then she studied at Columbia University, after which she received a master's degree in journalism.
Work
Heather Nauert began her career in the public service as a government consultant on taxes, he alth insurance, and social security issues. In 1996, she began to engage in journalism, worked as a reporter for a weekly business program. Published for the Fox News Channel for seven years (1998-2005).
In 2005, she was invited to work for the Disney commercial channel ABC News, where she worked fruitfully for two years. During these years, Heather received a nomination for the prestigious television award "Emmy" for a series of documentaries 13 Around the World, dedicated to the life of thirteen-year-olds in various countries around the world. Her reports on World News, Nightline, Good Morning America have been loved by American viewers.
In 2007, Heather Nauert returned with a promotion to Fox News Channel, where she became co-host of popular morning programs. Since 2012, he has been presenting news on various channels of this media concern. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, which publishes, among other things, the authoritative magazine Foreign Affairs.
In public service
In press release on April 24, 2017 appointment of Heather Nauert as press secretaryThe US State Department says that she has more than 15 years of experience as a host of programs on important events in domestic and international life. She has covered four presidential campaigns and inaugurations, and has reported on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, as well as in Orlando and Boston. Heather has long been interested in foreign policy, as a correspondent has experience preparing broadcasts about the war in Iraq and the genocide in Sudanese Darfur.
In her new post, the blonde continued the traditions of her predecessors regarding Russian foreign policy. Heather repeatedly "denounced" the unacceptability of Russia's actions in Ukraine and Syria.
Personal Information
Heather Nauert is married to investment banker Scott Norby, who works for Goldman Sachs. The couple have two children: Peter (born in 2009) and Gage (born in 2010).
She is a member of the Republican Party and has always openly supported Donald Trump and his family. When retail chain Nordstorm refused to sell the products of the brand of the President's daughter Ivanka Trump, Heather supported her. In a Twitter post (@HeatherNauert), the famous journalist wrote that Ivanka's collection of shoes and accessories designed by Ivanka is beautiful and she will even buy several pairs of shoes and try them out on upcoming TV shows. In this social network, she has about 90 thousand subscribers. I must say that Heather is one of the favorite TV stars of the American president, he really likes the Fox & Friends program, which sheled.