Every weekday at 4 p.m. EST, Fox Noticias brings viewers top headlines and news stories––in Spanish.
And while there are other Spanish-language news shows in the U.S., “Fox Noticias is different than those shows,” Rachel Campos-Duffy, host of Fox Noticias, told IW Features in an exclusive interview. “We’re the only one like it because we fully embrace the conservative faith culture of the Hispanic community in a way that the others don’t.”
The one-hour show, which launched one year ago on FOX Deportes, a Spanish-language sports network in the U.S., “is needed now more than ever,” according to Campos-Duffy. Listeners can also find the show on Fox Nation and Fox News Audio.
“President Trump, in his new second presidency here, has decided to make the Western Hemisphere a big center of his foreign policy agenda, and they’re our neighbors. It’s our backyard, as we say,” Campos-Duffy said. “ It’s the Trump-Monroe doctrine, and so I think that Fox Noticias is best positioned to cover that in a way that other shows have not done.”
Campos-Duffy certainly isn’t a newcomer to the anchor seat. In fact, she has years of television experience dating back to the 1990s when she was on MTV’s “The Real World.”
In addition to hosting Fox Noticias, she is a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” and was previously a frequent guest on “The View” on ABC and the “Today Show” on NBC.
“We’re covering American news—all the politics and culture that you see on the Fox News Channel—but we’re adding a special emphasis on the leaders of Latin America and the way that politics is shaping up with Donald Trump at the helm, and putting that emphasis on the Western Hemisphere,” she added.
Campos-Duffy also noted that the show covers “cultural issues of great importance to the Hispanic community, whether it’s the trans-ing of children, the secularization of the culture, religious issues,” Fox Noticias is “covering all of these issues in a way that you will never see on any other Spanish language show here in the United States.”
Speaking to why the Latino community needs that perspective, Campos-Duffy said, “It’s important for Hispanics to find their values reflected in a show, in a news show that comes to them every night, and they’re just not getting it with the other networks—Univision, Telemundo.”
“These are networks that are presenting a very, I would say, secular and very liberal [point of view]. And at Fox Noticias, we’re fully embracing our culture and who we are as a people,” Campos-Duffy added.
“We came out of the gate with Latin American leaders, presidents, ministers, and so we’re telling American politics, but we’re also getting a lot of news from Latin America, which is really important because President Trump has made it a signature of his foreign policy to pivot away from the Middle East and Europe and towards our own hemisphere, the Western Hemisphere,” Campos-Duffy told IW Features.
Not only is Fox Noticias covering politics in the U.S., the show also focuses on news from Latin America, which she says is “really important” given President Trump’s focus on the Western Hemisphere.
“And he did it right out of the gate. He went right to Panama and said, ‘Hey, we built this canal for you, for America, and for the Western Hemisphere. We didn’t build it to hand it over to China,” Campos-Duffy said.
In fact, Campos-Duffy’s very first interview for Fox Noticias was with Panama President José Raúl Mulino, where the two discussed hot-button issues, including illegal immigration and the Daríen Gap, a treacherous jungle area that connects Panama and Colombia, as well as the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
“We have been on the forefront of this pivot to the Western Hemisphere, of all the things that are happening––the war on cartels, the illegal immigration, the focus on China and other bad actors out of the Western Hemisphere because this is our neighborhood,” Campos-Duffy said.
Campos-Duffy has also interviewed President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and, most recently, traveled with and interviewed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth aboard the USS Iwo Jima.
While Campos-Duffy and Fox News Media Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Scott had been discussing Fox Noticias for about six or seven years, it was during the 2024 election cycle that the team began to see the Hispanic community take a greater interest in politics, so they decided it was time to launch.
“We realized it was the time to launch and that there was a real interest in how this election was going because the Hispanic community was suffering so much under the Biden years, and especially during COVID because so many of them were entrepreneurs and they saw their small businesses, their restaurants, their hair salons shut down and discriminated against in terms of government policy and regulations, and then big box companies were free to be open,” she said.
Fox Noticias has nearly 50,000 followers on its YouTube channel and over 72,000 followers on Instagram.
Campos-Duffy has been in the public eye long before Fox News. Her entrance into the entertainment industry began in 1994, with her appearance on the third season of MTV’s “The Real World.” A few years later, in 1998, she was on another MTV show, “Road Rules: All Stars,” where she met her husband, now-U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
After the couple wed in 1999, they moved to Wisconsin, where Duffy was the district attorney for Ashland County and then ran for U.S. Congress. While Campos-Duffy was mainly an at-home mom, she “always kept my fingers in the pie a little bit, doing little bits of work here and there.” Eventually, she began working for the LIBRE Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the Hispanic community.
During her time with LIBRE, Campos-Duffy appeared on Fox News, and after many years she became a contributor for the network, where she is now also a co-host of “Fox and Friends Weekend.”
As a mom and a successful businesswoman, Campos-Duffy offered some advice to young women: “Prioritize your love life.”
“If you get your love life and your marriage and your family in a good space, the other things, your passions, your career, all those things can fall into place,” Campos-Duffy said.
That order, she believes, is critical. “If you become too career-oriented, it could derail your ability to get your personal life in order, which I think is the most important thing for anybody, and once you get your marriage and your family life in order, what ends up happening is that there are compromises that you have to make career-wise,” she said.
Campos-Duffy noted how she has “made those compromises,” and while she “landed a really great job by the old age of 50,” she emphasized that she turned down a lot of other opportunities before then to prioritize her family.
It’s clear Campos-Duffy is a champion woman––both professionally and personally. To her, that means “you’re following your heart,” she said.
“If your heart is telling you to be home, then that’s what you should be doing, and if your heart tells you you can contribute in the workforce in a way that doesn’t sacrifice or compromise that, then you should do that, too,” Campos-Duffy said.
