Janice Dean

Janice Dean (born May 9, 1970) is a Canadian-born American meteorologist, television show host, and author based in New York City. She currently appears on Fox News, where she serves as co-host and weather anchor on Fox & Friends.

Janice Dean
Janice Dean in 2019.
Born (1970-05-09) May 9, 1970
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma materAlgonquin College
OccupationHost and weather presenter for Fox News
Political partyRepublican[1]
Spouse(s)
Sean Newman
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(m. 2007)​
Children2, Matthew and Theodore
Websitewww.foxnews.com/person/d/janice-dean

Career

Before beginning work for Fox News, Dean worked at several radio and television stations in Canada and the United States, including CHEZ-FM, and WCBS-TV.

Before starting her career in broadcasting, she was a Canadian Bylaw enforcement officer.[2]

In 2009, Dean's application for the American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval was granted.[3] The Seal is not a meteorology certification. Rather, it was launched in 1957 as a way to recognize on-air personalities for their sound delivery of weather information to the general public, and the AMS is no longer accepting applications for the Seal of Approval Program.[4]

Dean wrote a series of Freddy the Frogcaster children's books.[5]

Her first book, Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Rainiest Days, was released on March 5, 2019.[6] Her second book, Make Your Own Sunshine: Inspiring Stories of People Who Find Light in Dark Times, was released on March 2, 2021.[7]

Criticisms of Andrew Cuomo

Dean's father-in-law and mother-in-law, each a resident of an assisted living facility or nursing home in New York, died due to complications of COVID-19. In the aftermath, she attributed both deaths to a State of New York advisory that required admissions and readmissions of assisted living and nursing home residents without virus testing, and became an outspoken high-profile critic of New York's Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo and the lack of media coverage.[8]

Dean criticized CNN, Good Morning America, and People Magazine; for doing "puff pieces" on Cuomo's actions relative to the pandemic that did not touch on the nursing home subject.[9] She specifically criticized the behavior of both Governor Cuomo and his brother Chris Cuomo (the former presenter of Cuomo Prime Time, which was a weekday-evening news analysis show on CNN that terminated upon CNN firing him) regarding one of the Governor's appearances on his brother's show, describing it as "an insensitive, giggling interview."[8]

The Governor's secretary Melissa DeRosa was among the Cuomo aides who, along with his brother, criticized Dean behind the scenes and tried to create a strategy to paint Dean's commentary as unimportant.

Personal life

Dean was born in Toronto, Ontario, grew up in Ottawa, and graduated from Algonquin College.[10] In 2007 she married Sean Newman of the New York City Fire Department.[11][12] They have two sons, Matthew and Theodore.[13]

She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005.[6]

See also

References
  1. Levine, Jon (January 23, 2021). "Fox News' Janice Dean faces calls to run against Andrew Cuomo in 2022". New York Post. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  2. Dean, Janice (2019). Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Rainiest Days. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0062877598.
  3. "Janice Dean". Fox News. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  4. "AMS Awards and Certifications". Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  5. Hunter-Frederick, Allison (April 4, 2017). "Interview with Weather Forecaster, Janice Dean". Lincoln Animal Ambassadors. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  6. Dean, Janice (March 4, 2019). "Janice Dean: I have a new book - 'Mostly Sunny' - Here's why I wrote it". Fox News. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  7. "Make Your Own Sunshine: Inspiring Stories of People Who Find Light in Dark Times". www.amazon.com. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  8. Dean, Janice (July 22, 2020). "Janice Dean: COVID-19 killed my in-laws after Cuomo's reckless New York nursing home policy". USA Today. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  9. Janice Dean slams Gov. Cuomo's 'tone deaf' victory lap on COVID: We're still mourning
  10. "Five Minutes w/ Janice Dean". Fox News. August 31, 2004. Archived from the original on September 5, 2012.
  11. "Watch 'Cooking With Janice Dean' (Actually Her Husband Does the Cooking)". Fox News. July 23, 2015. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  12. Dean, Janice (June 9, 2017). "Janice Dean: Ten years together. As husband and wife. Amen". Fox News. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  13. "Janice Dean: As a mom, I've learned that sometimes it's the little things that have the biggest impact". Fox News. May 11, 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
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