Jacqui Heinrich currently serves as senior White House correspondent and anchor of The Sunday Briefing (Sundays, 11 AM/ET), a position she shares with fellow senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy, anchoring alternating Sundays. She is also a co-host for FOX News Audio’s The FOX News Rundown podcast. She joined the network in September 2018 as a general assignment reporter based in New York.
Since joining the network, Heinrich has covered every major political event including reporting from the campaign trail for the 2020 election where she provided on-the-ground coverage of both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. In February 2021, she was named Congressional Correspondent and later that year, promoted to White House correspondent in August. In 2022 and 2025, Heinrich was elected for two consecutive terms by the White House press corps to represent her peers on the White House Correspondents Association’s board, where she currently serves as president. She was named co-host of The Sunday Briefing in September 2025.
Most recently, in May of 2026, Heinrich provided on the ground coverage from Beijing throughout the US-China summit. As anchor of The Sunday Briefing, Heinrich has presented exclusive interviews with major heads of state and political leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, among others. On Inauguration Day 2025, she contributed to the extensive coverage live from Washington, D.C. commentating on President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance being sworn into office. Heinrich also contributed to the network's 2024 election coverage throughout the cycle and on election night, provided the latest from then Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign headquarters. Additionally, Heinrich provided live coverage from the White House surrounding the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Previously, she presented a live interview with Biden Senior Adviser and former National Economic Council director Gene Sperling, alongside FOX News Channel’s John Roberts. In addition, she covered the news surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Heinrich is a three-time Emmy-award winning reporter and was named the 2017 General Assignment Reporter of the Year for the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Boston/New England chapter. As a reporter/anchor for Boston 25 News, she covered multiple breaking news events including the October 2017 deadly mass shooting at the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest Festival.
Prior to joining Boston 25 News, Heinrich spent nearly three years as a reporter and weekend evening anchor for KTNV-TV, the ABC affiliate in Las Vegas. Heinrich also worked as a one-man-band reporter for the NBC affiliate in Colorado Springs, where she also anchored KOAA’s weekend morning edition of the Happening Now Desk. She attended the George Washington University School of International Affairs and worked as an intern for the United States Congress, MSNBC, and WRC-TV, the local NBC affiliate.
