Arthel Neville currently serves as an anchor for FOX News Channel (FNC). She first joined the network in 1998, where she served as a contributor until 2001. She returned to FNC in 2010 as an anchor.
Throughout her tenure with the network, Neville has covered some of the biggest breaking news events of the past three decades. She has also served as an anchor on numerous programs, including FOX News Live, which she co-anchored with Eric Shawn through 2024. The program was number one in its weekend timeslots, besting CNN and MSNBC in the ratings.
In 2001, she joined CNN as the host of TalkBack Live with Arthel Neville, where she was the first African American woman to host her own signature show on the network. While at CNN, she also anchored morning and daytime news. She later went on to host FOX’s nationally syndicated morning show, Good Day Live and served as a correspondent for A Current Affair in 2005. In 2008, she helped launch a then-newly acquired FOX affiliate, KSWB-TV, in San Diego where she helped the morning show overtake the market mainstays as the number one program. Previously, she hosted and produced a one-on-one celebrity interview show on E! Entertainment Television and in 1994, helped launch the entertainment news show, EXTRA, on which she served as an anchor.
In 2016, Neville was honored as a Distinguished Alumni at the University of Texas at Austin and in 2017, she was the first African American female to receive the Moody College of Communications Dewitt Carter Reddick journalism award. Past recipients of the honor have included Walter Cronkite, Bill Moyers, Dan Rather and Ted Turner.
A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Neville got her start in journalism as a full-time reporter at the ABC Austin affiliate KVUE-TV, while she was a junior in college. Notably, she was the first African American on-air reporter at the station, where she covered live breaking news, politics, education, health and human-interest stories in Austin. Neville is proud to have had iconic journalist Ed Bradley as a career-long mentor.
