Somewhere between the intern logging tape on Neil Cavuto’s show and the correspondent explaining inflation from a shop floor in New Jersey, Madison Alworth built one of the quicker climbs in American business news. People mostly search one thing about her, which is her age, and the honest answer takes a paragraph rather than a number. This page gives you that answer, and the documented career that is considerably more interesting.

Known for	Correspondent, Fox Business Network
Joined FBN	September 2021, announced by the network, based in New York
Education	Yale University, reported class of 2015
Before FBN	Fox News intern, NBC associate producer, Cheddar producer and reporter, WTSP Tampa anchor
Birth date	Not publicly confirmed; published ages elsewhere are estimates
Net worth	No documented figure exists; we do not publish invented ones

The Question Everyone Types, Answered Honestly

Type her name into a search box and the first suggestion is her age. Here is the honest answer: Madison Alworth has not made her birth date public, and the confident-sounding numbers on other websites are guesses copied from one another. What is documented is the timeline. She is reported to have graduated from Yale in 2015, which is the anchor most estimates lean on, and everything else about her career is on the record. We would rather give you the verifiable timeline than invent a birthday, because one of those things stays true.

Starting As The Intern On Cavuto

Her first job in television was about as unglamorous as the industry offers: a production assistant internship on Your World with Neil Cavuto at Fox News. Interns on shows like that log tape, pull scripts, run errands and watch how a daily programme actually gets to air. It is the view from the floor, and people who start there tend to understand every job in the building later, because at some point they have stood next to all of them.

Yale Before The Newsroom

Alworth graduated from Yale, reported as the class of 2015. An Ivy League degree opens doors in American media, and it is worth being clear about what it does not do: it does not teach you to write a broadcast script in twenty minutes or hold your nerve on live television. Those came later, job by job. The degree got her into rooms. The career that followed is what she did once she was in them.

The NBC Producer Years

From Fox she moved to NBC as an associate producer, working on content for The Today Show and business segments. Producing is the invisible half of television: booking guests, writing scripts somebody else reads, cutting tape, and solving the dozen small crises every show generates before air. On-screen reporters who used to be producers are noticeably better at working with their crews, because they have sat on the other side of that relationship.

Cheddar And The Closing Bell Hour

At Cheddar News she produced the four o’clock hour of Closing Bell, the network’s programme covering finance, tech and startups, and began appearing on air herself. Cheddar was a young, scrappy operation, and young operations hand people responsibility years before a legacy network would. Producing an hour of daily live television while learning to report on camera is a compressed education, and it shows in how quickly the next steps came.

Local News In Tampa

By early 2018 she was a reporter and anchor at WTSP in Tampa and St Petersburg, Florida. Local news is the classic American proving ground: you cover everything from hurricanes to school boards, you shoot in the field in all weathers, and you learn to be accurate at speed because the broadcast goes out whether you are ready or not. Almost every national correspondent in the country has a chapter like this, and the ones who skipped it tend to be findable on air. Her time there included reporting on the economic impact of the pandemic on the region, the kind of story where national numbers turn into named shops and real families, and it is visibly the register she still works in.

The Call From Fox Business

In September 2021, Fox Business Network announced it had signed Alworth as a correspondent, based in New York, in the same press release that brought in Kelly O’Grady. That announcement is a matter of public record from the network itself, which makes it one of the few dates in her story that needs no estimating. Getting from an internship to a national correspondent role at the same company group inside a decade is a fast climb by any standard.

What A Business Correspondent Actually Does

The job is translation. Markets, inflation, retail numbers and company earnings arrive as jargon, and a correspondent’s task is to stand in a shop or on a trading floor and explain why any of it matters to somebody watching with the sound half up. It rewards clarity over cleverness. The reporters who last in business news are the ones who can make a supply chain story feel like it belongs in your kitchen, because for the viewer it usually does.

Reporting From The Field

Much of her work is remote reporting: small businesses, consumer prices, housing, the economy as it is actually lived. Field reporting in business news means turning up where the story physically is, from diners dealing with egg prices to factories dealing with tariffs. It is the opposite of studio punditry, and it is the part of financial television that viewers consistently trust most, because there is a real place and a real person on the screen.

Why We Publish No Net Worth Figure

Other pages about Alworth quote a net worth range with impressive confidence. We do not, because those figures are invented. Correspondent salaries are private, contracts are private, and nobody publishing a dollar range has seen either. This site does not print net worth estimates for anybody unless there is a documented source, and for a working television reporter there almost never is. What can be said truthfully is that she holds a national correspondent role at a major network, and that is the fact that matters.

A Note On Her Age

This page exists because people search for her age, so here is the responsible version of the answer. No birth date is on the public record from Alworth herself. The reported Yale class of 2015 is the only solid anchor, and readers can do that arithmetic as well as we can: most American graduates finish their first degree at twenty-one or twenty-two. Any site giving you an exact number has made it up, and the ones that disagree with each other prove the point.

The Dana Perino Conversation

Fox News has run a short interview feature in which Dana Perino put quick questions to Alworth, part of a series introducing the network’s younger journalists. Pieces like that are worth mentioning because they are one of the few places a correspondent speaks about themselves on the record, rather than being written about. Where a person has told their own story, we prefer that version to anything assembled from the outside.

The Path Is The Interesting Part

Strip the speculation away and the documented career is genuinely instructive: intern at Fox, producer at NBC, producer-turned-reporter at Cheddar, local anchor in Tampa, national correspondent by 2021. Every step added a skill the previous one lacked, and none of them was a shortcut. Our guide to leading female journalists covers how similar ladders look on the British side of the Atlantic, where the rungs have different names and the climb is much the same.

How She Compares Across The Desk

Fox’s morning franchise is anchored by names that took a similar road through local stations, and our profile of Ainsley Earhardt covers one of them. The pattern repeats because it works: networks recruit people who have already proved they can carry live television somewhere smaller, where the mistakes were cheaper. By the time a correspondent reaches a national desk, the nerves have been spent years earlier in markets nobody outside them remembers.

What To Watch Next

Correspondent is rarely the last line on a broadcasting CV. The usual next steps are a named beat, a regular slot on a flagship programme, or an anchor chair, and business networks promote from within more than most. Whether any of that happens is not something we will pretend to know. What this page will do is stay tied to the record: the dates that are documented, the work that is on air, and nothing invented in between.

Final Thoughts

An internship, three networks, a local anchor desk and a national correspondent role inside a decade, all of it on the record. The age is the one thing nobody outside her family actually knows, and this page will say so rather than guess. Our other profiles of television journalists take the same approach.

This article is based on publicly documented career information, including the network’s own announcement of her appointment. Her birth date is not on the public record and no age stated as exact elsewhere should be treated as confirmed. We publish no net worth estimates.

Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Madison Alworth?

She has not made her birth date public. The only solid anchor is her reported Yale class of 2015, and sites quoting an exact age have estimated it.

Where does Madison Alworth work?

She is a correspondent for Fox Business Network, based in New York, signed by the network in September 2021.

Where did Madison Alworth study?

She graduated from Yale University, reported as the class of 2015, before starting her television career as an intern at Fox News.

What did Madison Alworth do before Fox Business?

She was a production assistant at Fox News, an associate producer at NBC, a producer and reporter at Cheddar News, and a reporter and anchor at WTSP in Tampa.

What is Madison Alworth’s net worth?

No documented figure exists. Correspondent salaries and contracts are private, and the ranges published elsewhere are invented estimates.

Is Madison Alworth on Fox News or Fox Business?

Fox Business Network, as a correspondent. Her reporting also appears across the wider Fox platforms, and she began her career at Fox News as an intern.