Page Hopkins
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Page Hopkins is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 journalist who currently appears on MSNBC
MSNBC
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 First Look
First Look
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and NBC
NBC
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 Early Today
Early Today
Early Today is an American morning news programme airing on the NBC television network. The program goes out live at 4:00am Eastern Time Zone for those few stations which start their local news at 4:30am, and is transmitted in a continuous half-hour tape delay loop until 10:00am ET, when Today...

 
. Most recently, Hopkins interviewed Randy Roberts Potts on growing up with his grandfather Oral Roberts
Oral Roberts
Granville "Oral" Roberts was an American Pentecostal televangelist and a Christian charismatic. He founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University....

 and then later revealing his homosexuality in his adult life.. Hopkins graduated from Wellesley College before beginning a career as a television journalist. Gaining experience first as a producer, and then anchor for several local network affiliates Hopkins joined Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television is a 24-hour global network broadcasting business and financial news. It is distributed globally, reaching over 200 million homes worldwide. It is owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P...

 as the morning anchor of Moneycast in 1999. In 2002 Hopkins began working at Fox News and became the co-anchor of Fox & Friends Weekend as well as Fox News Live
Fox News Live
Fox News Live was an American news/talk television program, the hard-news daytime programming of the Fox News Channel. In addition, it also referred to the short headline segments of nearly every hour daily.-About:...

and Breaking News Desk. She also served as a panelist on The Live Desk
The Live Desk
The Live Desk was an American news/talk program on the Fox News Channel. It was cancelled and replaced with America Live with Megyn Kelly-About the show:...

, participating in panel discussions of the day’s top stories. Hopkins was a member of the MIT News Study Group and serves on the Board of Trustees of Inwood House, a non-profit organization that helps pregnant teens who are homeless or in foster care. She currently resides in New York City with her husband and children.

Early life

Hopkins was raised in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

 and graduated from Wellesley College with a Bachelor of Arts in History. She also was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) News Study Group while an undergraduate at Wellesley.

Career

Her first job was at the ABC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach, is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and is the most populous city in and county seat of Palm Beach County, the third most populous county in Florida with a 2010 population of 1,320,134. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida...

 as an associate producer.

She began her on-camera career as a weekend anchor at KTVE-TV in Monroe, Louisiana
Monroe, Louisiana
Monroe is a city in and the parish seat of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 53,107, making it the eighth largest city in Louisiana. A July 1, 2007, United States Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 51,208, but 51,636...

, followed by anchoring jobs at WWCP-TV
WWCP-TV
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 in the Johnstown/Altoona, Pennsylvania market and News 12 New Jersey
New Jersey
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, a 24-hour
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 cable news
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 television network
Television network
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 where she was nominated for an Emmy for her series on the state of the New Jersey foster care system, "Holes in the Safety Net". Prior to joining FOX News, she was the morning anchor of Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television is a 24-hour global network broadcasting business and financial news. It is distributed globally, reaching over 200 million homes worldwide. It is owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P...

's Moneycast, a national business show that aired weekday mornings on the USA Network
USA Network
USA Network is an American cable television channel launched in 1971. Once a minor player in basic cable, the network has steadily gained popularity because of breakout hits like Monk, Psych, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Covert Affairs, White Collar, Monday Night RAW, Suits, and reruns of the various...

. While at Bloomberg she also anchored personal finance specials, winning the 2000 Front Page Award for "401(k) Spring Clean-Up". She was an anchor and reporter for the Fox News channel from September 2002 to late 2008. She co-anchored the two hour Sunday morning edition of Fox News Live
Fox News Live
Fox News Live was an American news/talk television program, the hard-news daytime programming of the Fox News Channel. In addition, it also referred to the short headline segments of nearly every hour daily.-About:...

and was one of the anchors of the highly rated morning show "Fox and Friends Weekend" which runs three straight hours and is largely unscripted. Since December 2009, she has been seen anchoring "Early Today" for NBC network and appears on MSNBC in "First Look" and in prime time reading the news . In June 2010, she and Eliot Spitzer co-anchored the 4pm hour as fill-ins for Dylan Ratigan. Page is represented by HDReps.
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