{{Short description|Canadian weather presenter}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Janice Dean | image = Janice Dean 2019.jpg | image_size = | caption = Dean in 2019 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|5|9}} | birth_place = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada | political_party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2021/01/23/fox-news-janice-dean-called-to-run-against-cuomo-in-2022/|title=Fox News' Janice Dean faces calls to run against Andrew Cuomo in 2022|date=January 23, 2021|access-date=March 21, 2021|first=Jon|last=Levine|publisher=[[New York Post]]}}</ref> | occupation = Host and weather presenter for [[Fox News]] | alma_mater = [[Algonquin College]] | spouse = {{Marriage|Sean Newman|2007}} | children = 2 | networth = | website = {{URL|https://www.foxnews.com/person/d/janice-dean}} }} '''Janice Dean''' (born May 9, 1970) is a [[Canadians|Canadian-born]] American [[weather presenter]], television show host, and author based in [[New York City]]. She currently is on leave from [[Fox News]] due to health reasons where she served as co-host and [[Television presenter|weather anchor]] on ''[[Fox & Friends]]''.
==Career== Dean was born in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], grew up in [[Ottawa]], and graduated from [[Algonquin College]] with a degree in radio-television broadcasting.<ref name=fiveminutes>{{Cite web | url = http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112742,00.html | title = Five Minutes w/ Janice Dean | date = August 31, 2004 | work = [[Fox News]] | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120905000230/https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112742,00.html | archive-date = September 5, 2012 | url-status = dead}}</ref> Before starting her career in broadcasting, she worked as a Canadian [[bylaw enforcement officer]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dean |first1=Janice |title=Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Rainiest Days |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2019 |isbn=978-0062877598 }}</ref> Later Dean worked at several radio and television stations in Canada and the United States, including [[CHEZ-FM]] and [[WCBS-TV]], finally landing a post at Fox News.
In 2009, Dean's application for the [[American Meteorological Society]] ''Seal of Approval'' was granted.<ref name=foxbio>{{Cite web | url = https://www.foxnews.com/person/d/janice-dean | title = Janice Dean | work = [[Fox News]] | access-date = May 11, 2019}}</ref> The Seal is not a meteorology diploma, so she is not a meteorologist. Rather, it was launched in 1957 as a way to recognize on-air personalities for their sound delivery of weather information to the general public, and the AMS is no longer accepting applications for the Seal of Approval Program.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/education-careers/careers/ams-professional-certification-programs/ | title = AMS Awards and Certifications | access-date = July 20, 2020}}</ref>
Dean wrote a series of ''Freddy the Frogcaster'' children's books.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://lincolnanimalambassadors.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/interview-with-weather-forecaster-janice-dean/ | title = Interview with Weather Forecaster, Janice Dean | date = April 4, 2017 | first = Allison | last = Hunter-Frederick | website = Lincoln Animal Ambassadors | access-date = May 11, 2019}}</ref>
Her first book, ''Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Rainiest Days'', was released on March 5, 2019.<ref name=mostlysunny>{{Cite web | url = https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/janice-dean-i-have-a-new-book-mostly-sunny-heres-why-i-wrote-it | title = Janice Dean: I have a new book - 'Mostly Sunny' - Here's why I wrote it | date = March 4, 2019 | work = [[Fox News]] | first1 = Janice | last1 = Dean | access-date = May 11, 2019}}</ref> Her second book, ''Make Your Own Sunshine: Inspiring Stories of People Who Find Light in Dark Times'', was released on March 2, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Sunshine-Inspiring-ebook/dp/B089SZ8RP4|access-date=February 15, 2021|title=Make Your Own Sunshine: Inspiring Stories of People Who Find Light in Dark Times|website=www.amazon.com}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=February 2021}}
===Criticisms of Andrew Cuomo=== Dean's father-in-law and mother-in-law, each a resident of an assisted living facility or nursing home in [[New York (state)|New York]], died due to complications of [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]]. In the aftermath, she attributed both deaths to a state advisory that required admissions and readmissions of assisted living and nursing home residents without virus testing and became an outspoken high-profile critic of Governor [[Andrew Cuomo]] and the lack of media coverage about the policy.<ref name="USAToday"/>
Dean criticized [[CNN]], ''[[Good Morning America]]'', and ''[[People (magazine)|People Magazine]]''; for doing "puff pieces" on Cuomo's actions relative to the pandemic that did not touch on the nursing home subject.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/janice-dean-slams-gov-cuomos-tone-deaf-victory-lap-on-covid-were-still-mourning|title=Janice Dean slams Gov. Cuomo's 'tone deaf' victory lap on COVID: We're still mourning|date=July 16, 2020|website=Fox News}}</ref> She specifically noted the behavior of both Governor Cuomo and his brother [[Chris Cuomo|Chris]] regarding his appearances on Chris's [[Cuomo Primetime|CNN show]], describing it as "an insensitive, giggling interview."<ref name="USAToday">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/07/22/andrew-cuomo-nursing-homes-coronavirus-janice-dean-new-york-column/5472713002/|title=Janice Dean: COVID-19 killed my in-laws after Cuomo's reckless New York nursing home policy|last=Dean |first=Janice|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|date=July 22, 2020|access-date=February 13, 2021}}</ref>
The Governor's secretary [[Melissa DeRosa]] was among the Cuomo aides who, along with his brother, criticized Dean behind the scenes and tried to create a strategy to paint Dean's commentary as unimportant. It was reported that Chris Cuomo and Melissa DeRosa had plotted to discredit Dean over her criticism of Andrew Cuomo.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Brian |title=Andrew Cuomo's top aide and Chris Cuomo planned to discredit Fox News' Janice Dean over Covid criticism, sources say |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/chris-cuomo-melissa-derosa-plotted-to-discredit-fox-news-janice-dean-sources.html |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=CNBC |date=December 10, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 2007 she married Sean Newman of the [[New York City Fire Department]].<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://insider.foxnews.com/2015/07/23/video-cooking-friends-janice-dean-and-husband-honor-fdny-firefighter | title = Watch 'Cooking With Janice Dean' (Actually Her Husband Does the Cooking) | work = [[Fox News]] | date = July 23, 2015 | access-date = May 11, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/janice-dean-ten-years-together-as-husband-and-wife-amen | title = Janice Dean: Ten years together. As husband and wife. Amen | first1 = Janice | last1 = Dean | work = [[Fox News]] | date = June 9, 2017 | access-date = May 11, 2019}}</ref> They have two sons, Matthew and Theodore.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/janice-dean-mom-little-things-biggest-impact | title = Janice Dean: As a mom, I've learned that sometimes it's the little things that have the biggest impact | date = May 11, 2019 | access-date = May 11, 2019 | work = [[Fox News]]}}</ref>
She was diagnosed with [[multiple sclerosis]] in 2005.<ref name=mostlysunny />
==See also== * [[New Yorkers in journalism]]
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==External links== * [https://www.foxnews.com/person/d/janice-dean Bio on FOXNews.com] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120905000230/https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112742,00.html Five Minutes w/ Janice Dean (FOXNews.com)]
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