Lawrence Jones

Lawrence Jones is a television host on Fox News Channel who became a co-host of its flagship morning program, FOX & Friends, in September 2023.¹ At 30, he was the youngest Black co-host in cable news history when he took the seat alongside Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade on weekday mornings from 6 to 9 AM Eastern.¹

Jones joined Fox News in 2018 and made his name with on-the-ground reporting on how national issues played out in local communities. In 2021 he was named the FOX & Friends franchise’s enterprise reporter, and he has continued in that role alongside his co-hosting duties.¹

From campus watchdog to national television

Before Fox News, Jones was the editor-in-chief of Campus Reform, the conservative student-journalism outlet covering higher education.² He still carried that title when he appeared on Fox & Friends in May 2019 to discuss the outlet’s analysis of college commencement speakers, arguing that while the slate showed “progress,” students were still being indoctrinated in classrooms.³

He also hosted his own radio show on TheBlaze Radio Network and served as a contributing host for TheBlaze TV.² His earlier reporting included a 2016 exclusive interview with the parents of Micah Johnson, the Dallas shooter in the deadliest police ambush in American history, after the family had refused to speak to other media.² In 2013 he worked as an investigative journalist exposing corruption in the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace — work his speakers’ biography ties to reform of the Navigator program’s funding — and he earned the FreedomWorks 2013 Activist of the Year Award.² He has appeared on Red Alert’s 30 under 30 and Newsmax’s 30 Most Influential Republicans under 30 lists.²

Cross Country and the move to mornings

From January 2022 through September 2023, Jones hosted the weekend program Lawrence Jones Cross Country, traveling across the country to cover issues from local communities and sit down with decision-makers.¹ The program covered the University of Idaho student murders with four hour-long episodes reported live from Moscow, Idaho, and he interviewed 2024 Republican presidential candidates including Vivek Ramaswamy, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson.¹

During his Fox tenure he also hosted a 2020 primetime weekend special on race relations featuring civil rights activists, religious leaders, and law enforcement officials, and presented a FOX Nation event with NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace on his career and activism in the Black Lives Matter movement.¹ He has frequently filled in as a guest host across the network’s top-rated primetime programs.¹

Jones is a native of Garland, Texas, and attended the University of North Texas.¹ He has also served on the Dallas County Child Welfare Board.²

The 2019 Minnesota rally appearance

One lesser-reported stop in his rise: in October 2019, Jones appeared live from the Minnesota Trump rally on The Sean Hannity Show alongside Trisha Hope, the author of “Just the Tweets.”⁴ The podcast episode, released October 10, 2019, billed Jones as a Fox News contributor and Hope as the episode’s other guest from the rally floor.⁴ Some write-ups garble this detail as an appearance “alongside a woman named Hope”; the verified record shows the guest was Trisha Hope, promoting her book about Trump’s social media posts.⁴

The Memories Pizza fundraiser question

In April 2015, a GoFundMe campaign for Memories Pizza — the Indiana pizzeria that became a national flashpoint after its owners said they would not cater same-sex weddings — raised more than $842,000 in just over six days, making it GoFundMe’s second most successful campaign to date at the time.⁵ Some secondary sources credit Jones with creating that fundraiser, but no source this profile fully read confirms his authorship: Rewire News Group describes the campaign’s creator only as “a conservative commentator who has worked with discredited right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe,” without naming him.⁵ The claim is recorded as an open item rather than asserted here.

What this profile does not claim

This profile does not assert Jones’s exact date of birth, which is widely repeated online as December 10, 1992, but not confirmed by any source this profile fully read. It does not name him as the creator of the Memories Pizza GoFundMe campaign. It does not repeat claims about a school-board run at age 19, a “youth mayor of Garland” title, or a reported 2026 eye surgery, all of which appear only in low-quality or content-farm sources that were not read in full.

Footnotes

1. “FOX News Channel Names Lawrence Jones Co-host of FOX & Friends,” Fox News via BusinessWire, Sept 14, 2023. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

2. Capitol City Speakers Bureau biography of Lawrence Jones. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

3. Jon Street, “Lawrence Jones praises ‘progress’ on commencement speakers,” Fox News Digital via Campus Reform, May 20, 2019. ↩

4. “Just The Tweets,” The Sean Hannity Show podcast episode, released Oct 10, 2019. ↩ ↩² ↩³

5. “After Anti-Gay Pizza Parlor Gets $800,000, Activists Crowdfund for Homeless LGBT Youth,” Rewire News Group, Apr 9, 2015. ↩ ↩²