page_title: Michelle Fields
section_title: Journalism career
hierarchical_section_title: Michelle Fields / Journalism career
caption_attribution_description: English: Michelle Fields speaking at the 2013 Young Americans for Liberty National Convention at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.
context_page_description: Michelle Fields is an American political journalist who formerly wrote for The Huffington Post, and was a reporter for Breitbart News, as well as a Fox News contributor. After graduating from college, Fields was hired as a reporter at The Daily Caller. She later became a correspondent for PJ Media. Fields is a former panelist on the Fox News program Cashin' In. In 2016, Fields accused Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of grabbing her arm at a press conference. At the time, Fields was a reporter for Breitbart, but resigned her position in March 2016, due to the organization's handling of the Lewandowski incident.
context_section_description: Upon graduating from Pepperdine University in 2011, Fields gained national attention after having a confrontation with actor Matt Damon over teacher tenure reform. Fields films and edits her videos in a citizen journalism style.
  Fields has appeared on CNBC, Sky News, Fox News, Hannity, The O'Reilly Factor, Fox and Friends First, Your World with Neil Cavuto, America's Newsroom, Fox and Friends, America Live with Megyn Kelly, Stossel, and Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld. Fields was featured in Details magazine as one of "the next wave of political pundits".
  Fields later became a correspondent for PJ Media.
  In 2012, Fields gave a TEDx talk on her career and the future of Internet journalism. In 2015, The Hill newspaper named her one of the 50 most beautiful people in Washington, D. C.
  In September 2014, Fields became a contributor at Fox News.
  In May 2016, Fields became a reporter at The Huffington Post. She published a book, Barons of the Beltway: Inside the Princely World of our Washington Elite, in June 2016. The book was quickly edited close to the time of release in order to include an accounting of Fields' incident involving the Trump campaign.
  Fields is a former panelist on the Fox News program Cashin' In.
caption: Fields at the Young Americans for Liberty National Convention at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.
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