Brooke Taylor Fox News Career, Background, and Major Stories

For the first two years of her television career, Brooke Taylor anchored and produced the evening news at the lowest-rated station in a small upstate New York market, without a dedicated reporter and without an assignment desk. By September 2024, she was a national correspondent for Fox News Channel, filing investigative exclusives and breaking news from Dallas, Texas.

The seven years between those two points explain most of what you need to know about her.

Brooke Taylor is a Dallas-based national news correspondent for Fox News Channel (FNC), a role she has held since September 2024. She covers all of Texas with a primary focus on crime, immigration, and public safety, and has broken several notable stories since joining the network.

Brooke Taylor Before Fox News: Seven Years in Local Television

Taylor grew up in New York City. She graduated from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2017 with a degree in Broadcast Digital Journalism and a minor in Political Science. Getting into Newhouse was not straightforward. Taylor has said publicly that she applied more than once before gaining admission. As a student, she worked at the university’s student-run station CitrusTV and on the campus morning show Mornings on the Hill.

Two months after graduating, she was on air at WETM-TV, an NBC affiliate in Elmira, New York, anchoring the 10PM weeknight newscast. The conditions were not ideal for building a profile. In a July 2025 post on X, she described the experience directly:

“I was determined for other stations to notice my newscasts despite working at the ‘lowest-rated’ station in the market. I anchored and produced the shows myself, without a designated reporter or assignment desk like our competitors. I’m extremely proud of that work.”

Despite the circumstances, she made the most of it. At WETM, Taylor anchored the station’s Olympic Zone during the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, field-anchored NASCAR weekend coverage, and moderated New York’s 23rd District Congressional debate. When her contract ended, the station offered her a main anchor promotion. She turned it down.

In July 2019, Taylor joined WLNE-TV (ABC6) in Providence, Rhode Island, as a weekend anchor and weekday reporter. She described the jump as moving up “123 news market sizes.” During two years in Providence, she reported on a Rhode Island governor who publicly broke COVID-19 stay-at-home orders in 2020, a story that became one of the station’s highest-viewed reports of the year.

Then came Texas. Taylor joined KTRK-TV (ABC13) in Houston in July 2021 as a reporter and fill-in anchor, stepping into one of the largest television markets in the country. She had never been to Texas before accepting the position, and her family was skeptical of the move. Her response, as she later wrote: “I trusted my gut, packed my bags, and moved across the country.”

At ABC13, she covered the 2021 Astroworld music festival tragedy, which killed 10 people in a crowd crush, and reported on Hurricane Ida’s impact on Houston and Gulf Coast communities. She also reported on the capital murder case involving 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, whose killing by two Venezuelan nationals who had each been apprehended at the U.S. border and then released from ICE custody became a nationally followed story. Taylor had been investigating ICE release practices through open records requests at the local level, work that fed directly into that coverage.

Her approach at ABC13 drew attention from the start. Houston television industry blog mikemcguff.com noted at the time that reporters from competing stations were asking who the new ABC13 correspondent was at press conferences, specifically because of how directly she questioned public officials.

Joining Fox News in September 2024

On June 26, 2024, Taylor posted her departure from ABC13: “I am so thrilled to share I will be joining Fox News as a national news correspondent based in Dallas. After 3 years, I am leaving ABC13.”

Fox News confirmed the hire directly to mikemcguff.com, with her start date set for September 2024.

In a July 2025 reflection on X, she wrote: “After three years in Houston and seven in local news, I interviewed for Fox National News. It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. It pushed me and shaped me as a journalist.”

In the Fox News national correspondent role, she covers all of Texas.

What Brooke Taylor Reports on at Fox News

Taylor’s assigned beat is local crime, though her reporting spans immigration enforcement, public safety, and breaking national news. Open records requests and FOIA investigations are a consistent part of how she works, a practice she developed during her years at ABC13.

She appears regularly across Fox News Channel’s major programming, including America’s Newsroom, Special Report with Bret Baier, Hannity, Outnumbered, Jesse Watters Primetime, The Story with Martha MacCallum, Fox News @ Night, Fox News Sunday, Fox Report with Jon Scott, America Reports, and Varney & Company.

Notable Fox News Investigations and Stories

Since joining the network in September 2024, Taylor has broken or co-reported on several high-profile stories out of Texas:

Immigration and Border Coverage

• Filed open records requests revealing that 1 in every 10 Houston jail inmates held ICE detainers for violent crimes, published as a Fox News exclusive during the 2024 presidential campaign period
• Reported on post-inauguration border data showing a 97% drop in El Paso crossing encounters compared to the same day in 2024, following President Trump’s return to office in January 2025
• Broke the arrest of Dennis Arguello-Acosta, an illegal immigrant charged in connection with the hit-and-run killing of a Texas sheriff’s deputy

Crime and Public Safety Reporting

• Reported exclusively on the arrest of Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, an Afghan national charged after posting a TikTok video indicating he was building a bomb targeting the Fort Worth area
• Co-reported on ICE’s capture of a South American theft ring accused of violent armed break-ins targeting small business owners across Texas
• Covered the case of Diamon-Mazairre Robinson, a man who posed as a security guard for Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett under a false name before being shot and killed by Dallas SWAT officers while wanted on multiple warrants, including impersonating a police officer

Major Breaking News

• Contributed to Fox News’ live coverage of the July 4, 2025 Texas Hill Country floods, in which at least 104 people were killed and 27 campers and counselors at Camp Mystic in Kerr County died. During coverage, Taylor reported from U.S. Coast Guard rescue transcripts, including an account of a young girl in a rescue helicopter asking whether there was room for her stuffed animal
• Broke the story, First on Fox in October 2025, that a 12-year-old Texas girl at the center of an abuse investigation was an unaccompanied border crosser who had entered the United States at one year old
• Co-reported on Brown University retaining former U.S. Attorney Zachary Cunha in preparation for lawsuits following the fatal shooting of two students on campus

Education and Personal Life

Taylor is a New York City native who spent years working toward a return to Manhattan as a television journalist. That goal took a different shape. She built her national career from Dallas instead.

Her path to the Newhouse School was not a simple one. She applied more than once before gaining admission, something she has spoken about openly as part of her larger story about persistence in the industry. At Syracuse, she studied Broadcast Digital Journalism and minored in Political Science.

On her personal life, Taylor keeps things private. No credible source confirms details about her relationship status, and she has not addressed it publicly. Her contact email for story tips, which she has shared across her social media profiles, is Brooke.taylor@fox.com.

Nearly a year and a half into her Fox News career, the investigative habits Taylor built at local affiliates across three states are now producing national exclusives. The reporter who was producing the late-night news alone at the lowest-rated station in Elmira is now a Fox News correspondent with a string of First-on-Fox stories, a growing national profile, and, by the accounts of those who watched her work across four markets, the same habit of asking the questions other reporters hold back on.