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Adam Housley
Housley in 2019
Born
Arthur Adam Housley

(1971-08-13) August 13, 1971 (age 52)
Napa, California, U.S.
Alma materVintage High School
Pepperdine University
University of Arizona
Occupation(s)Winemaker
former television Senior news correspondent
Spouse
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(m. 2011)​
Children2
Websitewww.adamhousley.tv

Arthur Adam Housley (born August 13, 1971)[1][2] is an Emmy winning American journalist, winemaker, and former professional baseball player. He worked for Fox News from 2001 until 2018.

Professional career

Baseball

A graduate of Pepperdine University, Housley played on the 1992 National Champion College World Series baseball team, and in 1992 and 1993 played collegiate summer baseball with the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[3][4][5] He was also a Junior Olympic All-American baseball player as a pitcher and hitter.[6] He received a double bachelor's degree in political science and telecommunications from Pepperdine University. He was a two-time media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and received his MA in international relations from the University of Arizona.[7] Prior to his career in television, Housley played professional baseball. He was drafted by the Montreal Expos, and played for both the Milwaukee Brewers and the Detroit Tigers minor league organizations, pitching in 97 games.

Journalism

Prior to joining Fox News, Housley served as a reporter at

arsonist. Housley began his career as a reporter for KVON and KVYN
radio stations in his native Napa, where he developed and produced newscasts.

Housley reported during the Iraq War from Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, Jordan and the Persian Gulf. He has spent time covering the War on terror from Pakistan and in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He was on air in Kuwait when the first missiles and warning sirens began on March 20, 2003, and earlier that month boarded ships in the Persian Gulf along with U.S. Special Forces as they looked for illegal shipments of weapons into Iraq. His reports also came via video phone from the deck of USS Milius a destroyer that would eventually fire the first missiles into Iraq to begin the war.[8][9]

During his tenure, Housley was also the Fox News lead reporter for Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2003 campaign and has covered six hurricanes, including Katrina and Rita, and filed more than 45 stories from Mexico–United States border.[10]

In December 2005, Housley was one of the reporters selected to witness the execution of murderer

San Quentin State Prison.[11]

Housley also reported live on the shooting at the

whistleblower regarding the 2012 Benghazi attack
on September 11.

Housley has covered stories in six Latin American countries: Nicaragua, Venezuela, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Guyana (reporting on the "war on drugs" and interviewing the Sandinista National Liberation Front leader Daniel Ortega). He was also live on air when Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez shut down Latin American broadcaster RCTV, and spent two weeks covering the unrest.[12]

He received a master's degree in international security from the University of Arizona in 2014.[13]

Notable coverage

Housley was one of the first correspondents on assignment in Haiti, covering the devastation left in the wake of the 2010 Haiti earthquake that struck it on January 12, 2010. He wound up using a plug-in mic he found at the Consumer Electronics Show the week earlier to record reports shot on his iPhone. Housley and his cameraman, Eric Barnes, were able to turn rescue footage shot by Congressman Kendrick Meek (D-FL) into broadcast news.[14]

Housley was one of the first Western journalists to provide extensive onsite coverage in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. He reported on recovery efforts and the search for bodies along with his crew on location from Phuket, Patong Beach, Phi Phi Islands and Khao Lak.[15][16]

Housley who is fluent in Spanish, covered the 2010 Copiapó mining accident in northern Chile for Fox News. He was on site and reporting on October 12–13, 2010, as each of the 33 miners, trapped for 69 days, was brought to the surface one at a time in a rescue capsule.[1]

Housley was one of the first American reporters on scene in

The Napa Valley Register.[17][18][19]

During the

death of Michael Brown, Housley was one of the Fox News reporters on the scene in Ferguson, Missouri. He reported live as the fires were still burning on Florissant Avenue, and some of his tweets prompted viewers to donate money to local businesses whose property was damaged during the protests and subsequent fires.[20]

Housley was one of the first reporters on site for the December 2015 San Bernardino attack in San Bernardino. He and his crew obtained exclusive video of the shootout that ended with the gunmen, Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, being shot and killed by police.[21] He also broke a number of major developments in the case, including the plan to charge an accomplice, Enrique Marquez Jr., with terror-related offenses,[22] federal investigators looking for a missing hard drive,[23] the FBI knew of terror connections early on,[citation needed] and Farook and Malik practiced at a local gun range.[24]

On August 23, 2018, Politico reported that Housley was leaving Fox News, due to his frustration with hard-news reporting being de-emphasized in favor of commentary regarding President Donald Trump.[25]

Business owner

After a career in baseball and news, Housley helped to found Century Oak, his family's winery, in 2000. Housley's family had been involved in the wine grape growing business since 1969. The winery opened a tasting room in Napa named Housley Napa Valley in 2020.[26][27] Housely and his wife, Tamera, established a Coffeehouse named Barnhouse Napa Brews on the same block in Napa in 2021.

Personal life

Mowry and Adam Housley, at their winery in 2019
Housley, Mowry, and their children at their winery in 2019

Housley is president of his family's Century Oak Winery in Lodi, California. He married actress Tamera Mowry on May 15, 2011. The couple welcomed their first child, son Aden, on November 12, 2012.[28] The couple welcomed their second child, daughter Ariah, on July 1, 2015.

In 2016, the couple competed and won the Celebrity Cupcake Wars on Food Network. Their jalapeño cornbread, chocolate cabernet and vanilla port cupcakes beat out three other teams for the title.[29] The Housleys donated their winnings to the charity SnowballExpress.org, which helps children of fallen U.S. military members.[30]

Housley's niece, Alaina Housley, was killed during the Thousand Oaks shooting on November 7, 2018.[31]

In January 2021, the Housleys competed and won Celebrity Game Face, a television game show hosted by actor Kevin Hart on the E!.[32] The couple donated their winnings to alainasvoice.org, the charity named in honor of their niece.[33]

References

  1. ^ a b Farrell, Eddie (October 24, 2010). "FOX News reporter, with Hereford family connection, covers the world". Hereford Brand. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011.
  2. ^ "Adam Housley Register Statistics & History". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  3. ^ Mike Iacuessa (June 15, 1993). "Teams Cross Fingers While Waiting for Players to Arrive". The Cape Codder. Orleans, MA. p. 13.
  4. ^ "Player Stats". Cape Cod Baseball League. Retrieved July 13, 2023.
  5. ^ "Adam Housley Game-worn 1992 Pepperdine College World Series Jersey". Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  6. ^ "Adam Housely". Fanbase.com. Archived from the original on November 1, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2012.
  7. ^ "William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year". Archived from the original on May 20, 2014. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  8. ^ a b "Adam Housley". Fox News. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  9. ^ Trigboff, Dan (February 2, 2003). "Networks Get Ready for War". NextTV. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  10. ^ "About Me". Adamhousley.tv. May 15, 2011. Archived from the original on September 3, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  11. ^ James, Marty (June 30, 2006). "Crushers' Housley a news hound for Fox TV". Napa Valley Register. Napa, California: Lee Enterprises.
  12. ^ "Video: Fox News reporter calls Chavez apologist an SOB on the air". Hot Air. June 1, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  13. ^ "TVNewser | Covering national television news". Mediabistro.com. June 22, 2016. Archived from the original on October 20, 2011. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  14. Zap2It. January 19, 2010. Archived from the original
    on January 23, 2010. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  15. ^ "Interview: AmeriCares CEO Curt Welling". Fox News. December 30, 2004. Archived from the original on January 15, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  16. ^ "Reporter's Notebook: Pieces of Phuket". Fox News. January 5, 2005. Archived from the original on January 15, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  17. ^ NOONAN, JAMES (20 March 2011). "Napa native sees 'history from the front row'". Napavalleyregister.com. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  18. Mediabistro. Archived from the original
    on July 13, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  19. ^ "Japan earthquake and tsunami coverage drives huge traffic gains for CNN and Fox News". Los Angeles Times. March 11, 2011. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  20. ^ "Adam Housley". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  21. ^ Fox News (December 2, 2015). "Exclusive video of shootout between police, suspects". Archived from the original on January 15, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2016 – via YouTube.
  22. ^ "adam housley and san bernardino - Yahoo Search Results". search.yahoo.com.
  23. ^ "FBI searching for missing hard drive in San Bernardino probe| Latest News Videos | Fox News". Video.foxnews.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  24. ^ "Dry run: San Bernardino shooters practiced at gun range days before attack". Fox News. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  25. ^ Schwartz, Jason (August 23, 2018). "Second Fox News reporter leaves amid objections to network". Politico. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
  26. ^ MacIas, By Chris (15 October 2019). "Napa's liveliest tasting room? It may be Housley". San Francisco Chronicle.
  27. ^ "Housley Wines". napavalleylifemagazine.com. April 3, 2020.
  28. ^ "Tamera Mowry-Housley, Adam Housley Welcome Baby". Abcnews.go.com. 2012-11-14. Archived from the original on 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
  29. ^ "Celebrity: Cupcakes in Space: Cupcake Wars". Food Network. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  30. ^ Ariens, Chris (April 26, 2016). "Why FNC's Adam Housley Put on An Apron on TV Last Night | TVNewser". Adweek. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  31. ^ Jensen, Erin (November 8, 2018). "Tamera Mowry-Housley and husband say niece died in 'senseless' Thousand Oaks shooting". USA Today. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  32. ^ "5 Funny and Surprising Moments from the Latest Celebrity Game Face". 6 January 2021.
  33. ^ "Celebrity Game Face (Game Shows) 2020-Present". Archived from the original on 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
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