Janice Dean
{{Short description|Canadian weather presenter}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Janice Dean
| image = Janice Dean 2019.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Dean in 2019
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|5|9}}
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| party = Republican{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2021/01/23/fox-news-janice-dean-called-to-run-against-cuomo-in-2022/|title=Fox News' Janice Dean faces calls to run against Andrew Cuomo in 2022|date=January 23, 2021|access-date=March 21, 2021|first=Jon|last=Levine|publisher=New York Post}}
| occupation = Host and weather presenter for Fox News
| alma mater = Algonquin College
| spouse = {{Marriage|Sean Newman|2007}}
| children = 2
| networth =
| website = {{URL|https://www.foxnews.com/person/d/janice-dean}}
}}
Janice Dean (born May 9, 1970) is a Canadian-born American weather presenter, 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.
Career
Dean was born in Toronto, Ontario, grew up in Ottawa, and graduated from Algonquin College with a degree in radio-television broadcasting.{{Cite web | url = http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112742,00.html | title = Five Minutes w/ Janice Dean | date = August 31, 2004 | work = Fox News | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120905000230/https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112742,00.html | archive-date = September 5, 2012 | url-status = dead}} Before starting her career in broadcasting, she worked as a Canadian bylaw enforcement officer.{{cite book |last1=Dean |first1=Janice |title=Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Rainiest Days |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2019 |isbn=978-0062877598 }} Later Dean worked at several radio and television stations in Canada and the United States, including CHEZ-FM and WCBS-TV, finally landing a post at Fox News.
In 2009, Dean's application for the American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval was granted.{{Cite web | url = https://www.foxnews.com/person/d/janice-dean | title = Janice Dean | work = Fox News | access-date = May 11, 2019}} The Seal is not a meteorology diploma, so she is not a meteorologist. 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.{{Cite web | url = https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/education-careers/careers/ams-professional-certification-programs/ | title = AMS Awards and Certifications | access-date = July 20, 2020}}
Dean wrote a series of Freddy the Frogcaster children's books.{{Cite web | url = http://lincolnanimalambassadors.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/interview-with-weather-forecaster-janice-dean/ | title = Interview with Weather Forecaster, Janice Dean | date = April 4, 2017 | first = Allison | last = Hunter-Frederick | website = Lincoln Animal Ambassadors | access-date = May 11, 2019}}
Her first book, Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Rainiest Days, was released on March 5, 2019.{{Cite web | url = https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/janice-dean-i-have-a-new-book-mostly-sunny-heres-why-i-wrote-it | title = Janice Dean: I have a new book - 'Mostly Sunny' - Here's why I wrote it | date = March 4, 2019 | work = Fox News | first1 = Janice | last1 = Dean | access-date = May 11, 2019}} Her second book, Make Your Own Sunshine: Inspiring Stories of People Who Find Light in Dark Times, was released on March 2, 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Sunshine-Inspiring-ebook/dp/B089SZ8RP4|access-date=February 15, 2021|title=Make Your Own Sunshine: Inspiring Stories of People Who Find Light in Dark Times|website=www.amazon.com}}{{better source needed|date=February 2021}}
=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 advisory that required admissions and readmissions of assisted living and nursing home residents without virus testing and became an outspoken high-profile critic of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the lack of media coverage about the policy.
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/janice-dean-slams-gov-cuomos-tone-deaf-victory-lap-on-covid-were-still-mourning|title=Janice Dean slams Gov. Cuomo's 'tone deaf' victory lap on COVID: We're still mourning|date=July 16, 2020|website=Fox News}} She specifically noted the behavior of both Governor Cuomo and his brother Chris regarding his appearances on Chris's CNN show, describing it as "an insensitive, giggling interview."{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/07/22/andrew-cuomo-nursing-homes-coronavirus-janice-dean-new-york-column/5472713002/|title=Janice Dean: COVID-19 killed my in-laws after Cuomo's reckless New York nursing home policy|last=Dean |first=Janice|newspaper=USA Today|date=July 22, 2020|access-date=February 13, 2021}}
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. It was reported that Chris Cuomo and Melissa DeRosa had plotted to discredit Dean over her criticism of Andrew Cuomo.{{Cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Brian |title=Andrew Cuomo's top aide and Chris Cuomo planned to discredit Fox News' Janice Dean over Covid criticism, sources say |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/chris-cuomo-melissa-derosa-plotted-to-discredit-fox-news-janice-dean-sources.html |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=CNBC |date=December 10, 2021 |language=en}}
Personal life
In 2007 she married Sean Newman of the New York City Fire Department.{{Cite web | url = https://insider.foxnews.com/2015/07/23/video-cooking-friends-janice-dean-and-husband-honor-fdny-firefighter | title = Watch 'Cooking With Janice Dean' (Actually Her Husband Does the Cooking) | work = Fox News | date = July 23, 2015 | access-date = May 11, 2019}}{{Cite web | url = https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/janice-dean-ten-years-together-as-husband-and-wife-amen | title = Janice Dean: Ten years together. As husband and wife. Amen | first1 = Janice | last1 = Dean | work = Fox News | date = June 9, 2017 | access-date = May 11, 2019}} They have two sons, Matthew and Theodore.{{Cite web | url = https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/janice-dean-mom-little-things-biggest-impact | title = Janice Dean: As a mom, I've learned that sometimes it's the little things that have the biggest impact | date = May 11, 2019 | access-date = May 11, 2019 | work = Fox News}}
She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.foxnews.com/person/d/janice-dean Bio on FOXNews.com]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120905000230/https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112742,00.html Five Minutes w/ Janice Dean (FOXNews.com)]
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