Martha Bowes MacCallum (born on January 31, 1964) is an American news anchor on the Fox News Channel. She joined the network in 2004, and is based in the New York City bureau. She previously hosted The Live Desk with Trace Gallagher at 1:00 p.m. ET. Currently, she co-hosts America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer at 9:00 a.m. ET.
MacCallum has covered the 2004, 2008 and 2012 presidential elections along with the 2010 mid-term elections. She also co-anchored the coverage of the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Her wide-ranging interviews with everyone from General David Petraeus, to David Axelrod and John McCain and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, have been featured on her programs at the Fox News Channel. Martha Bowes MacCallum was born on January 31, 1964 in Buffalo, New York, to Douglas C. MacCallum Jr. and Elizabeth B. MacCallum. After graduating from Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes NJ, Martha earned her bachelor's degree in Political Science from St. Lawrence University. She also studied at the Circle in the Square Theater School and founded the Miranda Theater Company in New York. Prior to working as a reporter, MacCallum was an associate in corporate relations at Dow Jones & Company.
MacCallum began her career as a reporter for Corporate Finance magazine. Before her television career with Fox, she was an anchor/reporter on CNBC's Morning Call with Martha MacCallum and Ted David in addition to Checkpoint, an evening show which examined the business side of security and war. Prior to those shows, she frequently contributed to The News with Brian Williams, Today, NBC affiliates, and CNBC World. In addition, MacCallum also created the series, "Inside the Business," for Business Center, a former CNBC show.
Before CNBC, in 1996, MacCallum was an anchor & reporter for WBIS-TV, a sports and business network, in New York. Prior to that, she was at Wall Street Journal Television where she served as a business news correspondent and anchor for; Wall Street Journal Report, World Market Outlook and Business USA, from 1991 to 1996. She was an associate in the corporate relations department at Dow Jones in New York. She is a frequent guest on the Fox News late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld and Bill O'Reilly's The O'Reilly Factor and Imus in the Morning w/ Don Imus. MacCallum married Daniel John Gregory in a Roman Catholic ceremony at St. Elizabeth's Church in Upper Montclair, New Jersey on August 22, 1992. They have two sons and one daughter, and live in Ridgewood, New Jersey.