Jennifer Hale

Hale started her journalism career covering politics for KNOE-TV, a station in Monroe, Louisiana, which sent her to Baton Rouge as their capitol correspondent then went to WAFB in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. When she was a weekend anchor and reporter for WVTM in Birmingham, Alabama, she wrote a book called Historic Plantations of Alabama's Black Belt in 2009. She also was a fill-in correspondent for MSNBC during her time in Birmingham. In 2015, Hale launched All Access Sideline Pass, an organization that focuses on educating and empowering young women in the New Orleans community through outreaches and seminars. She also supports Alzheimer's Research, the Speech and Hearing Impaired Foundation among other causes and she's the Women's Health spokesperson for Thibodaux Regional Hospital. Hale was named one of New Orleans top female achievers by New Orleans Magazine in 2015. Prior to her Fox Sports career, she was an anchor on WVUE-DT's morning show in New Orleans, Louisiana. She called a call from some friends from LSU to interview former athletes and special guests at LSU football games to put on their website, coupled her work with the New Orleans Saints led to people in the Saints organization to recommend Hale to Fox Sports. In 2018, Hale revealed in a Women's Health article she co-written that she was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy during the 2016 NFL season. She wore a portable defibrillator for six months until medication she took helped get her heart rate back to normal. During the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, Hale filled-in for Jenny Taft as moderator for Skip and Shannon: Undisputed.

Jennifer Hale (born February 28, 1978) is an American journalist working for Fox Sports as an NFL sideline reporter where she is currently paired with Dick Stockton and Mark Schlereth. She also covers NBA's New Orleans Pelicans for Fox Sports New Orleans and also covers College Football for Fox Sports. She has been a substitute host on Fox Sports 1 shows Skip and Shannon: Undisputed and Lock It In. She covers The Basketball Tournament for ESPN as well.