Bill Melugin, the Fox News congressional correspondent, is 41 years old if the most widely repeated birthdate, February 26, 1985, is correct. Fox News has never published his birth date, so that figure comes from secondary sources and not from an official record.
Most pages that rank for this search state one birthday as settled fact. This article separates what Fox News and its press office have confirmed from what biography sites have repeated, then checks the disputed dates against his documented career.
Melugin spent much of 2021 through 2024 reporting from the southern border and, since November 2025, covers Congress from Washington, D.C. Those two chapters explain why so many readers want to know how old he is and where he came from.
So How Old Is Bill Melugin in 2026?
Using February 26, 1985, Melugin turned 41 in February 2026 and is 41 as of November 2026. That date appears on Crop Magazine and Heightopedia, and Heightopedia states that he was 41 in March 2026.
Under the February 26, 1985 date, Melugin was 36 when he joined Fox News in May 2021 and 40 when he moved to Washington in November 2025.
Two other 1985 dates circulate as well. TheCityCeleb lists July 2, 1985, and smaller biography pages list July 26, 1985. Both of those birthdays have already passed this year, so either one also gives an age of 41.
The disagreement grows once you leave 1985. Some pages place his birth in 1983, 1984, 1989 or 1990, which would make him roughly 35 to 43. Fameincome.com openly notes the split, saying some sources point to 1985 and others to around 1990.
Every age in this article is calculated as of November 2026 and will change as the calendar moves. If a source gives a different date, subtract the birth year from 2026 and then adjust for whether that birthday has passed.
Why the Birthday Is Listed So Many Different Ways
The short reason is that no primary source gives one. Fox News Media’s biography page for Melugin covers his job history, his awards and his education, and it lists no birth date or birthplace. The November 20, 2025 press release announcing his promotion follows the same pattern.
That gap gets filled by aggregator sites that copy one another. A date appears on one page, gets repeated on ten more, and starts to look like consensus. Birthplace shows the same drift: Crop Magazine says Orange County, California, while other pages say Los Angeles or Kansas City.
Here is how the main claims break down:
- February 26, 1985: Crop Magazine and Heightopedia
- July 2, 1985: TheCityCeleb
- 1985 or around 1990: Fameincome.com, which says its sources disagree
- 1983 or 1989: a handful of lower-quality pages with no named sourcing
A date with no named source behind it is a guess, however many times it is repeated. That is the standard this article holds itself to.
What Fox News Has Actually Confirmed
Fox News Media’s own pages give a clear fact base even without a birthday. The biography and the promotion announcement agree on the following.
- Melugin joined Fox News in May 2021 as a national correspondent based in Los Angeles.
- Fox News Media promoted him to congressional correspondent on November 20, 2025, and he now works from Washington, D.C.
- He anchors Fox News Report, a 90-second news brief that airs daily at 5:58 p.m. ET on Fox-owned television stations.
- He graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University with a broadcast journalism major.
- He has won two Golden Mike awards for investigative journalism from the Radio & TV News Association of Southern California, three local Emmys and three regional Edward R. Murrow awards.
Education is the closest thing to a timeline anchor in the official record. Secondary biographies add that he enrolled in 2008, finished in 2012 and minored in Spanish, though Fox does not list those details.
Using His Career Timeline to Check the Age
A career timeline cannot pin down a birthday, but it can show which claims are plausible. The record is more useful for what it fails to settle than for what it proves.
Early Newsroom Years
Fox’s biography says Melugin worked as a fill-in anchor at KFOX-TV in El Paso, Texas, and later as an anchor and investigative reporter at WJZY-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina. Secondary sites date the Charlotte job to roughly 2015 through 2017. El Paso sits on the border, so the posting overlaps with the region he later covered for the network.
If the reported 2008 enrollment and 2012 graduation dates are right, a typical college path would point to a birth around 1990. A 1985 birth would mean he started college at about 23, which is common for transfer students and career changers. Nothing in the public record rules out either one.
That is why this article calls 1985 plausible and widely repeated, but unconfirmed. Treat 41 as a working figure until Melugin or Fox News states a birth date.
Los Angeles and the Emmy Years
Before joining Fox News Channel, Melugin was an investigative reporter at KTTV in Los Angeles. His Fox biography says he won three local Emmys for investigative reporting there within four years.
The same biography credits him with helping break the story of Governor Gavin Newsom’s dinner at the French Laundry restaurant during the COVID-19 period. His breaking news from KTTV also ran on Fox News Channel programs, including Tucker Carlson Tonight, The Ingraham Angle and The Story.
The Border Years at Fox News
Melugin started at Fox News in May 2021, and the southern border was his assignment from the first day. His biography says he spent roughly half of each year there from 2021 through 2024.
Fox’s biography lists several defining assignments. In September 2021 he supplied helicopter and drone footage of thousands of migrants crossing near the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas. In April 2022 he reported on the drowning of Texas National Guardsman Bishop Evans in the Rio Grande, and in May 2022 he reported live from Uvalde, Texas, after the shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two adults.
What His Awards Recognize
The awards on his record fall into three groups and cover two kinds of work. The Radio & TV News Association of Southern California gave him two Golden Mike awards for Best Investigative Journalism. The local Emmys, also for investigative reporting, came during his years at KTTV.
The three regional Edward R. Murrow awards are for hard news and breaking news reporting, which is a different skill from investigative work. Having both on one résumé fits a career that moved from digging into local stories in Los Angeles to live coverage at the border and in Washington.
The Move to Washington in 2025
On November 20, 2025, Fox News Media announced that Melugin was the network’s new congressional correspondent. Jay Wallace, president and executive editor, made the announcement, and Melugin relocated to Washington to start right away.
Mediaite reported that he joins chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram in covering politics, legislative affairs and related issues from Capitol Hill. Covering Congress is a different kind of beat, built around votes, hearings and committee fights.
Melugin also anchors Fox News Report, a 90-second brief that airs on Fox-owned television stations each evening. A format that short leaves no room for filler, so the script has to deliver the day’s main story in a few sentences.
His recent work on Fox’s pages includes reports on Minnesota’s 2026 Senate race and appearances on Fox News Sunday and Special Report.
The announcement describes Fox News Media as reaching nearly 200 million people each month. That is the company’s own figure and not an independent audience measurement.
What His Career Path Says About Experience
Age is the number readers search for, but Melugin’s route points to experience as the more useful measure. Secondary biographies date his first on-air work to 2008, a radio job in Tempe, Arizona, while he was still a student. If that is right, he has spent about 18 years in broadcast news.
Fox’s biography confirms the ladder after that: a fill-in anchor chair in El Paso, an anchor and investigative reporting role in Charlotte, a big-market investigative job in Los Angeles, then the network. For a reporter who moved from immigration to Congress, firsthand field experience is easier to judge from his record than any birthday is. Viewers can check the assignments, the awards and the Washington move against Fox’s own pages, and those facts are documented even where his birth date is not.
Why His Border Coverage Drew So Much Attention
Fox’s own biography places Melugin at the forefront of the network’s reporting on migrant crossings, a role he held from his first day in May 2021. The Del Rio footage in September 2021 is the clearest example, since drone and helicopter views showed the size of a crossing from above.
Border coverage is also one of the most contested subjects in news, and viewers weigh how networks frame it differently. What is documented is the footage, the locations and the dates listed in his Fox biography. How those reports should be judged is left to the reader.
That distinction matters for anyone researching him. The verifiable record is a list of assignments, dates and awards, and it is strong. The contested part is interpretation, which belongs to the viewer and not to a biography page.
What Is Known About His Background
Beyond age, readers often ask where Melugin is from and who his family is. Fox News Media’s biography does not say. The most repeated claim is that he was born in Orange County, California, which appears on Crop Magazine and several other biography sites.
Some pages also name parents or a partner. None of Fox News Media’s pages confirm those details, so they are left out of this article.
How to Check a Celebrity Birthday Claim
The Melugin case is a useful example of a wider problem. When a public figure does not publish a birth date, websites fill the gap, and the first confident answer tends to spread.
A few habits separate reliable dates from recycled ones:
- Look for a primary source, such as an official biography, a press release or a direct interview.
- Check whether the page names where it got the date. If it does not, treat the date as unverified.
- Compare the wording across sites. Near-identical sentences with different dates often mean one page copied another and changed a detail.
- Test the date against the career timeline, and say so when the timeline cannot settle it.