Fox News has signed former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt as an on-air contributor starting Nov. 1, bringing another Trump administration veteran onto its platforms.
NBC News reported that Fox News Media announced the hiring Monday, with Leavitt set to offer commentary and analysis across the network’s outlets.
The 29-year-old left the West Wing at the end of August after serving as President Donald Trump’s top spokesperson from the start of his second term. She was the youngest White House press secretary in American history, and she built a reputation for hard-edged defenses of the president’s record and sharp exchanges with political reporters in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.
Her arrival at Fox keeps a proven Trump-world communicator in the national conversation as Republicans push toward the midterms.
Leavitt will begin the contributor role on Nov. 1. Fox News said she will appear across the lineup with the same firsthand White House and campaign experience she brought to the briefing room.
Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott framed the hire in plain terms.
"Karoline’s firsthand experience in the White House and on the presidential campaign trail gives her a distinct understanding of today’s political landscape. We look forward to her providing our audience with authentic and sharp insight across all Fox News Media platforms."
Leavitt answered with her own statement, pointing back to the energy that marked her tenure.
"I look forward to bringing my unique perspective from my experience as White House Press Secretary, along with the same energy and candor that defined my tenure, to Fox’s millions of viewers across their many platforms."
The move fits a familiar path. Former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany joined Fox in 2021 after serving from April 2020 through the final day of the first term, and she now co-hosts “Outnumbered” and “Saturday in America with Kayleigh McEnany.” Just the News noted that Leavitt becomes the second of Trump’s press secretaries to take a role at the network.
Fox has made other high-profile talent moves in recent cycles, including when Fox News brought on Melissa DeRosa after her break with New York’s Democratic machine.
Leavitt’s résumé runs deeper than the podium. She served as national press secretary on the 2024 presidential campaign and sat in Trump’s inner circle through the race and the White House. Before that, she ran for the House in New Hampshire in 2022 and lost to Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas.
She gave birth to her second child in May, then briefly returned from maternity leave before leaving the administration. The Washington Examiner reported she stepped down as press secretary on August 27 to spend more time with her family.
Trump addressed the departure on Aug. 12. He said she left the West Wing to “spend more time with her beautiful young children and family,” and he made clear she was not walking away from the fight.
"Karoline will now be one of my top outside advisors, and an influential voice within the Republican Party, as we work to defy History, and conclusively win the Midterm Elections."
Breitbart reported the same core details on the Fox deal and on Trump’s description of her next chapter as a top outside advisor while she focuses on family.
That dual track, family time plus a public role, matches the pattern of Trump alumni who leave formal posts and stay in the arena. It also tracks with other Trump-orbit personal headlines, such as when Alina Habba set to wed in a fast-moving personal chapter of her own.
For Fox, the hire adds a young, battle-tested voice who already knows the network’s audience and the arguments that animate the right. For Leavitt, it offers a platform without the daily grind of the briefing room.
Fox’s on-air roster has seen plenty of churn. After the network’s break with Maria Bartiromo, it turned to familiar conservative talent to steady key slots, including when Fox News named Larry Kudlow interim host of a flagship Sunday program.
Separate coverage of that earlier shake-up captured how quickly personnel fights can spill into public view, including the dispute that followed when Fox News fired Maria Bartiromo amid leaked-text fallout.
Leavitt’s deal is a cleaner story: a former White House press secretary with campaign scars, a young family, and a direct line to the president’s outside counsel now joining a network that already employs her predecessor in the job.
She starts Nov. 1. The midterms will not wait, and neither will the arguments she spent years making from the podium.
Voters still need clear voices who lived the decisions, not another layer of remote punditry detached from the record.