Career
She joined the network in 2004. She previously hosted The Live Desk w/Martha MacCallum with Trace Gallagher at 1:00 p.m. ET. MacCallum is also often seen in primetime as fill-in Anchor for Megyn Kelly and Greta VanSustern, and has a weekly segment with Bill O"Reilly on The O"Reilly Factor.
MacCallum is in integral part of the America"s Election Headquarters Team and has covered the 2004, 2008 and 2012 presidential elections along with the 2010 mid-term elections.
She also co-anchored the coverage of the funeral of Pope John Paul World War II Her wide-ranging interviews with everyone from General David Petraeus, to David Axelrod and John McCain and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, have been featured on her programs at the Fox News Channel. Martha MacCallum was born on January 31, 1965 in Buffalo, New York, to Douglas C. MacCallum Junior. and Elizabeth B. MacCallum.
After graduating from Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes New Jersey, Martha earned her bachelor"s degree in Political Science from Saint Lawrence University. She also studied at the Circle in the Square Theatre School and founded the Miranda Theater Company in New New York
Before joining Fox, MacCallum was an award-winning reporter/Anchor for National Broadcasting Company/Consumer News and Business Channel. She anchored Consumer News and Business Channel"s Morning Call with Martha MacCallum and Ted David in addition to Checkpoint, an evening show which examined the business side of security and war.
Prior to those shows, she frequently contributed to The News with Brian Williams, Today, National Broadcasting Company affiliates, and Consumer News and Business Channel World. In addition, MacCallum also created the series, "Inside the Business," for Business Center, a former Consumer News and Business Channel show. MacCallum is a two-time recipient of the Gracie Award for Women in Journalism.
Before Consumer News and Business Channel, in 1996, MacCallum was an anchor & reporter for WBIS-television, a short-lived sports and business station, in New New York
Prior to that, she was at Wall Street Journal Television where she served as a business news correspondent and anchor foreign Wall Street Journal Report, World Market Outlook and Business United States of America, from 1991 to 1996.