About This Episode
After her time with FOX News as an anchor, Jenna felt fact-based, non-partisan news was missing in the American media landscape, so she followed her passion and launched SmartHerNews.
Between the website and Instagram, she’s developed a digital platform providing fact-based, non-partisan information about what’s happening in the world, quickly and concisely.
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About Our Guest
Jenna Lee is an American journalist, writer, producer and founder of Leep Media LLC and SmartHERNews.com. Her portfolio of work includes reporting on the biggest domestic and international stories of the last decade.
Lee left Fox News in 2017 and launched www.SmartHerNews.com in 2018. Between the website and Instagram, she’s developed a digital platform providing fact-based, non-partisan information about what’s happening in the world, quickly and concisely.
She most recently co-anchored a daily two-hour news program for The Fox News Channel, covering breaking news and conducting live interviews with a wide range of guests including presidential candidates, lawmakers, cabinet members, business leaders, military veterans, star athletes, and unsung heroes. She is most inspired by her portfolio of work outside of the studio that combined American history and adventure. She co-anchored the first ever broadcast for the Fox Business Network, where she covered the historic financial crisis.
A graduate with honors of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Jenna worked as a writer/producer for NY1 News – a 24-hour local news channel based in New York City – as well as created multimedia content for Forbes.com Video Network as an anchor/producer. She began her career as a freelance journalist reporting for district newspapers in her hometown of San Francisco.
Jenna is married to Lieutenant Commander Leif Babin, a decorated U.S. Navy SEAL who is co-author of the NYT best selling book “Extreme Ownership” and co-founder of Echelon Front. They are blessed with three wildly “spirited” children.