Jacqui Heinrich is Senior White House Correspondent for FOX News Channel and co-host of The Sunday Briefing (Sundays at 11:00 a.m. ET). She currently serves as President of the White House Correspondents’ Association after being elected by her peers to consecutive terms in 2022 and 2025. Heinrich is a three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist based in Washington, DC.
Heinrich was promoted to Senior White House Correspondent in 2024 and currently covers the Trump administration. She previously served as White House Correspondent, beginning in 2021, covering the Biden administration .
Heinrich joined Fox News Channel in 2018 as a New York-based General Assignment Reporter. After covering the 2020 presidential campaign—including extensive on-the-ground reporting from both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions—she was promoted to Congressional Correspondent, covering Capitol Hill during one of the most consequential periods in recent history.
She has since reported across multiple U.S. presidential administrations and conducted high-profile interviews with world leaders, including President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Before joining FOX News, Heinrich was an anchor and reporter at Boston 25 News (WFXT), where she covered major breaking news stories, including the October 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting and the fatal South End trench collapse in Boston. In 2017, she was named General Assignment Reporter of the Year by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Boston/New England Chapter.
Previously, she served as a reporter and weekend evening anchor at KTNV-TV, the ABC affiliate in Las Vegas. There, she earned a regional Emmy Award for her reporting on sex trafficking. She also gained national recognition for her coverage of the Eric Nowsch murder trial, later appearing as the local media expert on two episodes of ABC’s 20/20.
Heinrich began her television career as a one-man band multimedia journalist at KOAA-TV, the NBC affiliate in Colorado Springs. During her time there, she received a regional Emmy Award for her investigative reporting on meth lab cleanup loopholes. She also later worked as weekend morning anchor on the station’s ‘Happening Now’ desk.
She studied International Affairs at The George Washington University, where she interned with the United States Congress, MSNBC, and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C.