Background
Linda Vester is the daughter of Dorothy Vester and the late Doctor John Vester of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Linda Vester
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She graduated from Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1987. She attended the Sorbonne in France for one semester in 1985 and was a Fulbright Scholar of Middle East affairs in Egypt for one year.
Career
She was the host of Dayside with Linda Vester on the Fox News Channel, first joining the channel in 1999. Vester previously worked at National Broadcasting Company News as an anchor/correspondent, Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company as host of Today in America, and WFLA-television in Tampa, Florida. While at National Broadcasting Company, she hosted National Broadcasting Company News at Sunrise from 1996-1998 and also worked on Weekend Today, as a correspondent, from 1992-1996.
She covered Operation Desert Storm, Trans World Airlines Flight 800, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, and the Rwandan Genocide.
In July 2005, she left Dayside on maternity leave and in July 2006 it was reported that she would not be returning to the Fox News Channel. Juliet Huddy and Mike Jerrick hosted Dayside until it was replaced with The Live Desk with Martha MacCallum in late 2006.
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