Portia Bruner Biography

Portia Bruner is an American Anchor/Reporter working for FOX 5 News where she anchors Fox 5 News at Noon. She as well reports for FOX 5 News at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. In 1995, she 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 anchors FOX 5 News at Noon, then reports for FOX 5 News at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. She as well fills 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. Prior to joining FOX 5 News, She was the consumer reporter for WTKR-TV in Norfolk, Virginia.

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 Age

She was born on July 6, 1973, in D.C. Washington, and raised in Denver, Colorado, United States. She celebrates her birthday on the 6th of July every year. Bruner is 50 years old.

Portia Bruner Height

Bruner stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches tall.

Portia Bruner Family

Bruner was born in the United States where her father served as the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) in the U.S. Air Force and her mother was a flight nurse in the Air Force. However, she has not revealed the names of her parents or siblings.

Portia Bruner Husband

Bruner was married but has not disclosed the name of her ex-husband. The couple divorced and she is a single mother to her children, Solomon and Asa.

Portia Bruner Salary

Bruner earns an annual salary ranging between $40,000 – $ 110,500.

Portia Bruner Net Worth

Bruner has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 million- $5 million.

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.

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