Portia Bruner Biography
Portia Bruner is an American journalist who serves FOX 5 Atlanta as a host of “Portia.” Before that, she served the station as an anchor for FOX 5 News at Noon. She joined the station in July 2003 as a general assignment reporter. Further, she has served the station for more than 1 and a half decades. Previously, she served WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia as a consumer reporter.
Portia Bruner Age
Bruner is 48 years old as of 2021. She was born on July 6, 1973, in D.C. Washington, and raised in Denver, Colorado. She celebrates her birthday on July 6th every year. Her zodiac sign is Cancer.
Portia Bruner Height
Bruner stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Portia Bruner Family
Bruner has managed to keep her personal life away from the limelight hence she has not disclosed any information about her parents. It is also not known if Bruner has any siblings.
Portia Bruner Husband
Bruner was married but she has not displayed the name of her husband. The couple divorced and she is a single mother to her children, Solomon and Asa.
Portia Bruner Net Worth
Bruner has an estimated net worth of about $ 1 million- $5 million which she has earned through her career as a journalist.
Portia Bruner Salary
Bruner earns an annual salary ranging between $ 45, 000 to $ 110, 500.
Portia Bruner Education
In 1995, Bruner graduated ‘Magna-Cum-Laude’ from Harvard University and has made South DeKalb County home for more than a decade. She became part of the University’s newspaper.
Portia Bruner Career
Bruner serves FOX 5 Atlanta as a host of “Portia.” Before that, she served the station as an anchor for FOX 5 News at Noon. She joined the station in July 2003 as a general assignment reporter. Further, she has served the station for more than 1 and a half decades. Previously, she served WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia as a consumer reporter.
Bruner reported for FOX 5 News at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. She filled in regularly as an anchor on Good Day Atlanta and the evening weekday newscasts. She has built a reputation for being a compassionate and dynamic storyteller who genuinely cares about the people whose life events she is covering.
Portia specializes in government affairs, breaking news, consumer news, and human interest stories and also likes giving her viewers the information they can use long after her stories air. She as well loves to share her money-saving shopping tips. Her features spotlight the treasures that FOX 5 Atlanta viewers and she find in thrift shops across metro Atlanta.
Before her work in Virginia, she became a 5 p.m. general assignment reporter for WAPT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, and a co-anchor. Portia began her professional career as a researcher and producer in the Consumer News Unit of NBC4-TV in Washington, D.C. She was recently named a Top 10 Finalist in the 2019 “Best Self Atlanta Magazine Over 40 & Fabulous” Contest.
She was selected due to her commitment to community service and for her candid disclosure of her struggles with psychogenic stuttering and depression. Besides, she is a passionate advocate for self-care, meditation, professional therapy, and prayer and often shares stress-management tips with FOX 5 viewers.
Portia Bruner Illness
On August 27, 2018, it was clear to the Atlantans who wondered what happened to Portia, who disappeared from the air during that whole time and until October 11, 2017, when her speech slurred, and she started sounding like she was having a stroke. She was diagnosed with psychogenic stuttering, or stuttering brought on by trauma. That’s when her team asked her to tell them about her life. “The conclusion was, ‘That’s a lot of stress. That’s a lot of emotional trauma. And it sounds like you’re not managing it well.
Portia Bruner Fox 5 Atlanta
Bruner is working at Fox 5 Atlanta where she works alongside other famous Fox 5 Atlanta anchors and reporters including;
- Phil Kent
- Randy Travis
- Alex Whittler
- Janice Yu
- Christine Sperow
- Doug Evans
- Alyse Eady
- Deidra Dukes
- Denise Dillon
- Morse Diggs
- Cody Chaffins
- David Chandley
- Courtney Bryant
- Ryan Beesley
- Katie Beasley
- Claire Simms
- Russ Spencer
- Dale Russell
- Ken Rodriguez
- Aungelique Proctor
- Ron Gant
- Buck Lanford
- Lori Geary
- Tom Haynes
- Emilie Ikeda
- Janelle King
- Dana Fowle
- Natalie Fultz
- Joanne Feldman
- Marc Teichner
- Sharon Lawson
- Paul Milliken
- Kelly Price
- Kaitlyn Pratt