--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Megyn Kelly by Brit Hume: TIME 100 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a7a79e55ad98a22/69868b5df983e72e2404d5f8/megyn-kelly-time-100-feat.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 23, 2014 # Megyn Kelly by Brit Hume  Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in her News Corp office in New York, NY on December 6th, 2013\. Kelly hosts the new hit news program The Kelly File. Kelly, originally a lawyer with no on camera TV experience, over 10 years has grown to a primetime news anchor sensation. Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in her News Corp office in New York, NY on December 6th, 2013\. Kelly hosts the new hit news program The Kelly File. Kelly, originally a lawyer with no on camera TV experience, over 10 years has grown to a primetime news anchor sensation.Jesse Dittmar—Redux Ten years ago, my wife Kim, then Fox News’ Washington bureau chief, walked into my office carrying a videocassette. “You have got to see this,” Kim said. It was the audition tape of a local TV reporter then named Megyn Kendall. She was a lawyer and new to the business, but her tape displayed as full a set of the qualities of a network correspondent as I had ever seen: great looks, strong voice, authoritative yet cheerful presence and obvious intelligence. In other words, limitless potential. But there was a problem: we had no openings, which was quickly pointed out to me when I enthused about her during a phone call with Fox News chair Roger Ailes and other executives. “Please,” I asked Roger, “just look at the tape.” I suspected he would see what I had seen. He did, and an opening was created. From the start, Megyn gave us insightful Supreme Court coverage, and she was among the first to spot flaws in the false rape charges against the Duke lacrosse players. She was too good to last as a mere correspondent, and she didn’t. The rest, as they say, is history. _Hume is a senior political analyst for Fox News Channel_ Megyn Kelly by Brit Hume: TIME 100 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/70888/megyn-kelly-2014-time-100/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/70888/megyn-kelly-2014-time-100/"},"headline":"Megyn Kelly","datePublished":"2014-04-23T22:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T22:59:14.717Z","description":"An authoritative force in cable news","url":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/70888/megyn-kelly-2014-time-100/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a7a79e55ad98a22/69868b5df983e72e2404d5f8/megyn-kelly-time-100-feat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a7a79e55ad98a22/69868b5df983e72e2404d5f8/megyn-kelly-time-100-feat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/2014-time-100/70888/megyn-kelly-2014-time-100/","name":"Megyn Kelly"}}]}] ```