Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News as a contributor

Leavitt’s new role

Karoline Leavitt has joined Fox News as a contributor, taking a media role after serving as White House press secretary. Her new title is contributor; the move does not place her in an election or candidate role. The development concerns her work after the White House and is not directly connected to a political race.

As a former press secretary, Leavitt moves from a government communications position to a job with a news organization. Those are distinct roles: The White House position is part of an administration, while the Fox title is a media position. The contributor appointment is the central change in her professional status.

McEnany made a similar move

Leavitt follows Kayleigh McEnany, another former White House press secretary who joined Fox in 2021. McEnany’s move established an earlier example of a former holder of the same White House job going on to work for Fox. The common point is the sequence of roles, not an election contest: Both women held the press secretary title and later took positions with Fox.

The 2021 date applies to McEnany’s arrival at Fox. Leavitt’s appointment is a separate personnel move. Because no campaign or election is directly linked to the appointment, it does not change a ballot or add a candidate to a race. It instead adds Leavitt to Fox’s contributor lineup and extends the pattern represented by McEnany’s earlier transition.