Wall Street Journal Television MacCallum was at
Wall Street Journal Television from 1991 to 1996, where she served as a business news correspondent and anchor for
The Wall Street Journal Report,
World Market Outlook, and
Business USA. In 1996, she moved to
WBIS-TV, a short-lived sports and business station in New York, as an anchor and reporter.
CNBC MacCallum was next a reporter/anchor for
NBC/
CNBC from 1997 to 2003. She frequently contributed to
The News with Brian Williams,
Today,
NBC affiliate news programs, and
CNBC World before being assigned to co-anchor CNBC's
Morning Call with Martha MacCallum and Ted David. She also appeared on
Checkpoint, an evening show which examined
homeland security and the
war on terror. MacCallum created the series "Inside the Business" for
Business Center, a former CNBC show.
Fox News MacCallum joined the
Fox News Channel in 2004. She hosted
The Live Desk from 2006 to 2010 and ''
America's Newsroom from 2010 to 2017. MacCallum hosted the new program, The First 100 Days
, on Fox News Channel, which debuted January 9, 2017. The program averaged 3.5 million viewers in the first month, an increase of 79 percent in the time slot compared to the year before. On April 28, 2017, the show was rebranded as The Story with Martha MacCallum''. At the close of 2020, "The Story" was moved from the prime 7 p.m. ET time-slot to the 3 p.m. ET time-slot. In addition to hosting
The Story, MacCallum serves as a fill in host on programs such as ''
America's Newsroom, The Faulkner Focus,
Outnumbered,
and The Five''. MacCallum has hosted two series about WWII streaming on
Fox Nation. In 2023, MacCallum hosted
The Final Journey of the Greatest Generation, a two-season, six-episode series about heroes of WWII taking viewers on one last journey through their personal experiences fighting against the Axis powers in Europe and the Pacific. In 2022, MacCallum began hosting
The Secret History of World War II with untold stories about heroes from WWII, with three seasons and eleven episodes. In January 2019, MacCallum launched “The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum,” a twice-weekly podcast where she sits down with a major newsmaker sharing inspiring stories of positivity, perseverance, and more. In 2018, MacCallum had the first and only interview with then-Supreme Court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh and his wife,
Ashley Estes Kavanaugh. The interview aired on
The Story With Martha MacCallum on September 24, 2018
at 7 PM ET and was watched by 3.6 million viewers, cable news' most-watched program of the night. According to
The Hollywood Reporter, MacCallum earned "near-universal praise" for her interview of Kavanaugh. In July 2023, Fox News announced that MacCallum interviewed Buster Murdaugh, the last living son of
Alex Murdaugh, who was convicted of murdering his wife Maggie Murdaugh and son Paul in June 2021. She presented the interview in a seven-episode
Fox Nation series entitled
The Fall of the House of Murdaugh, covering the twists in the double homicide case with exclusive interviews, prison audio, and never-before-seen family video & photographs. moderate a
town hall with President
Donald Trump in 2020 After
a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, MacCallum initially said, “This is a huge victory for these protesters. They have disrupted the system in an enormous way!” Later on during coverage of the events she called them "unsettling" and stated that "control has to be maintained."
Debates and Town Halls MacCallum co-moderated her first debate on Fox News at the Third Undercard Republican Primary Debate on January 28, 2016, with
Bill Hemmer from the
Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Participating in the debate was
Carly Fiorina,
Mike Huckabee,
Rick Santorum and
Jim Gilmore. In 2019, MacCallum and
Bret Baier moderated numerous town halls with potential presidential candidates in advance of the 2020 election.
Howard Schultz, former
Starbucks CEO, was first in the series on April 4, 2019, from
Kansas City, Missouri. Next in the series was
Bernie Sanders on April 15, 2019, from the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. On May 8, 2019, MacCallum and Baier hosted
Amy Klobuchar for a town hall in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin and
Julián Castro on June 13, 2019, from
Tempe Center for the Arts,
Tempe, Arizona. MacCallum and
Bret Baier hosted
Donald Trump's first TV town hall of the 2020 election cycle at the
Scranton Cultural Center in Scranton, Pennsylvania on March 5, 2020, one of the last in-person political events before
COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. MacCallum and Baier also co-anchored a virtual town hall with Donald Trump on May 3, 2020, from the
Lincoln Memorial. During the 2022 midterm election, MacCallum and
Bret Baier moderated a town hall with Ohio Senate hopefuls Republican
JD Vance and Democrat
Tim Ryan, one week before Election Day. The event was held in
Columbus, Ohio on November 1, 2022. Martha MacCallum moderated the first Republican debate of the 2024 election season with
Bret Baier at the
Fiserv Forum in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 24, 2023. In attendance was
Ron DeSantis,
Nikki Haley,
Tim Scott,
Chris Christie,
Vivek Ramaswamy,
Mike Pence,
Doug Burgum, and
Asa Hutchinson. Former President
Donald Trump declined to participate. In January 2024, MacCallum co-moderated with
Brett Baier three back-to-back town halls featuring
Donald Trump,
Ron DeSantis and
Nikki Haley. Donald Trump, in his first live appearance on Fox News since 2022, appeared in a town hall on January 10, 2024, from
Des Moines, Iowa, days before the
Iowa Caucus. Ron DeSantis appeared on January 9, 2019, and Nikki Haley on January 8, 2024. == Awards ==