By Nathalie Tadena
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is rejoining Fox News as a
contributor, network Chairman and Chief Executive Roger Ailes
said.
Ms. Palin became a national celebrity after her unsuccessful
2008 vice presidential turned into a media career as a paid Fox
News contributor from January 2010 to January of this year. The
Wall Street Journal reported in January that Ms. Palin wouldn't be
renewing her contract with the cable news networking, citing a
person familiar with the matter.
"I've had several conversations with Governor Palin in the past
few weeks about her rejoining Fox News as a contributor," Mr. Ailes
said Thursday. "I have great confidence in her and am pleased that
she will once again add her commentary to our programming."
Ms. Palin will appear on Fox News Channel's daytime and
primetime programming, starting with Fox & Friends on Monday.
She will also contribute to Fox Business Network.
Mr. Ailes told the Associated Press in 2011, "I hired Sarah
Palin because she was hot and got ratings."
Fox News is a unit of News Corp. (NWS, NWSA, NWS.AU), which owns
Dow Jones & Co., publisher of this newswire, and The Wall
Street Journal.
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