Amy Kellogg is renowned American journalist and news reporter who is best known for her work at the Fox network where she has been serving as a Fox News Channel reporter since 1999. Kellogg was a member of the original team of news reporters of the Fox News channel during the time the channel was launched. She is currently based out of the network’s news bureau in London and is mostly seen covering international news stories. She was earlier based in Milan and Paris.
Kellogg is a prominent face of the Fox network and is usually seen as a front-runner when it comes to covering news stories from the turmoil struck gulf nations of Iran and Iraq and has also reported from Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has covered several stories of national and international significance include the second war in Chechnya, the unrest in Kiev in Ukraine, the Paris attack in 2015, etc. She also covered the weddings of Prince Charles with Camilla Parker-Bowles and Prince William with Katherine Middleton.
Early Life and Education
Kellogg was born as a citizen of the United States of America. She has never divulged any information about her early or family life. There are no updates about her parents. It is also not known whether she is the only child of her parents or whether she has any siblings.
Kellogg completed her primary, secondary and high school education from public schools in USA and later moved to Providence in Rhode Island to attend the prestigious Ivy League School, Brown University from where she completed her graduation with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Soviet Studies. She moved to Russia to spend a semester abroad during her junior year, attending Leningrad State University. She also attended Stanford University, California from where she graduated with a Master of Arts Degree in East European Studies and Russian.
Career Rise
Kellogg began her career in journalism serving at several local broadcasting stations. She was first hired as a news correspondent by the Scranton, Pennsylvania based ABC affiliate WNEP-TV. She later joined the NBC affiliate WBRE-TV, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and the Fox affiliate WSYT-TV in Syracuse, New York. In the first decade of her career, Kellogg covered several significant stories including the second war in Chechnya, the resignation of Boris Yeltsin, the late Russian President, the death of pope Paul II among others.
Kellogg began gaining national prominence in her career when she was hired by the national Fox network in 1999 and is currently based in the network’s news bureau in London, before being based in Paris and Milan. In her capacity as a news reporter for Fox, Kellogg has covered several international high-profile news events which led her to travel to destinations like Iraq and Iran, where she interviewed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and spoke to several war veterans. She also covered the wedding of Prince Charles of Wales to Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker-Bowles. Other significant stories covered by Kellogg include the special report on Pakistan and Afghanistan in the wake of the 2001, September 11 attacks in USA, reports from Bahrain in Saudi Arabia etc.
Personal Life
Kellogg is an extremely private person and is known to guard her personal life ferociously. She has never divulged any details of her personal life and believes in letting her work speak for herself. Kellogg has never been in the news for speculations of a romantic relationship either. She is currently single, has never been married and claims that her career is of top-most priority.
Apart from English, Kellogg speaks French, Russian and Spanish fluently, having learnt the latter in Argentina. She is extremely active on the micro- blogging social media site twitter, a platform she uses to voice her opinion on news stories across the world.
Amy Kellogg – Salary and Net Worth
Her estimated salary is $80,000 per annum with a net worth of $1 million.