Jane Skinner Leaving Fox News

Fox News anchor Jane Skinner is leaving the network after 12 years, she announced on-air Thursday.

The co-anchor of Fox News' 11AM-1PM show, "Happening Now" — who is married to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell — told viewers that Thursday would be her final day on-air at the network and that she is taking a break from the news business.

"This is my last day on the air at Fox," she said. "It's been a thrill to have been a part of the incredible success of this place over the past 12 years that I've been here. My life in the 12 years I have been here has changed significantly in wonderful ways and they've created a lot of new responsibilities. I added a husband who has in the last couple of years become the NFL commissioner, and has a job even busier than mine. I have twin daughters, so to do justice to this new life I've decided to take a break from the business."

Skinner joined Fox News as a general assignment reporter in 1998.

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[JTJMOMEDTEK]

12:59 PM on 07/26/2010

I would have quit the day after marrying the football player.

[Brian J Conway]

10:49 AM on 07/12/2010

Fox girls and boys not smart? Ann Coulter Atttorney
Jamie Colby Attorney
Greg Jarret Attorney
Megyn Kelly Attorney
Kimberly Guilfoyle Attorney
Greta VonSustern Attorney
Monica Crowley PHD, political science
Neil Cavuto MBA
Bill O'Reilly Masters Harvard political science
No one on the air that i know of does not have at least a bachelors, most have worked on masters. All meteorologists have degrees, not just weather actors or actresses.And so on and so on. Fox News Nielsen Ratings show larger viewership than CNN and MSNBC combined, as well as the top 13 shows on cable are all Fox productions, Read em and weep kids and go show Soros this response, he'll help you make up more childish personal insults to throw at the stellar Fox lineup. I, however, caution you about going into a battle of wits, being as unarmed as you are.

Brian Conway
Valatie, N. Y.

[bt6972]

12:10 PM on 07/13/2010

Right on Brian. Most of these knuckleheads get their news from the drive-by media for fear that their king in the White House just might be in over his head......

[tugboat9]

11:16 PM on 07/13/2010

Fox is in bed with the GOILP and they still lost.All those lying lawyer's were no match for President Obama.All the fearmongering and smearing that your beloved Fox spew's,show's what coward's they are.Dishonest,dispicable coward's.

[shadowh]

12:32 PM on 07/05/2010

Hopefully the President will address this situation soon...

[holyghostie]

08:20 PM on 06/29/2010

Wasn't her dad a George Bush staffer? Could that have anything to do with her getting hired by FOX?

[ndnstud]

01:07 PM on 06/29/2010

Goodbye Ms. Skinner, we hardly knew ye. I'm fairly troubled at the thought of Roger Goodell watching Fox news, tho.....oh the humanity.

[fred53]

10:46 AM on 06/29/2010

I'm crushed. Will Faux news EVER be the same???

[rakrobn]

10:58 AM on 06/29/2010

They'll find another dumb fake blonde. They always do.

[fred53]

02:20 PM on 06/29/2010

Oh! OK, as long as she has the ah! proper credentials...:-)

[vincereardon]

09:11 AM on 06/29/2010

Never heard of her. Good luck, whoever you are.

[Nik Davis]

04:34 AM on 06/29/2010

Shouldn't you be in the news business before you quit it?

[2008CaliforniaFan]

12:19 AM on 06/29/2010

Any bets on whether we can get Palin to leave Fox as we.. Maybe she will QUIT..?

And this story might help push her out.

The Nicole Sandler Radio Show interviewed Patrick from ' Palingates '. Woo Hoo!

Palin WON'T like this interview. Listen to the audio. Any answers sarah??

http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/06/patrick-talks-on-nicole-sandler-radio.html

[diogeneslives]

11:01 PM on 06/28/2010

Was there an opening at Scores?

[jedwightn]

10:26 PM on 06/28/2010

I wish she'd take Fox with her!!!

[MmeFlutterbye]

09:37 PM on 06/28/2010

Who is she? And why was she fired?

[sticky29]

08:03 AM on 06/29/2010

Can't you read. She resigned.

[morg]

09:20 PM on 06/28/2010

says a lot about Fox that a retiring commentator can't tell the difference between a news business and Fox.

[bronceye]

04:40 PM on 06/28/2010

Soylent green will have a very bitter taste for a week or so.

[msbeal]

04:04 PM on 06/28/2010

Never heard of her.

[Village]

10:00 PM on 06/28/2010

Ditto