Jessica Dupnack is a Detroit-born TV reporter at FOX 2. Before coming home, she spent three years in Flint, where she shared a 2017 regional Emmy for breaking-news coverage of the water crisis. Search her name and you’ll find a dozen “bio” pages that repeat the same few lines and fill every other gap with invented numbers. This guide keeps the facts and tells you plainly where the facts run out.
Quick answer
• Who: A reporter at FOX 2 Detroit (WJBK), raised in Detroit.
• Emmy: She and producer Peggy Agar won a 2017 regional Emmy in the Breaking News category for coverage on the day criminal charges were announced in the Flint Water Emergency.
• WDIV: Her FOX 2 bio doesn’t mention it. A data-broker profile lists it among past roles, and that’s unconfirmed.
• Not public: exact age, husband, family, salary, net worth, height.
• A note on numbers: Online net worth and salary figures are unsourced estimates that contradict one another. I label every such figure as one and don’t repeat the warning below.
Quick facts
| Detail | Status |
| Job | Reporter for FOX 2, born and raised in Detroit, working weeknights and weekends per her station bio |
| Newscasts | The FOX 2 team page lists her as a reporter on the 5 and 6 p.m. news (page date unknown) |
| College | Michigan State University (confirmed by her bio) |
| Emmy | Confirmed by ABC12/WJRT |
| Murrow | Station-level win confirmed; her personal contribution is self-reported |
| Age, spouse, children | Not public |
| Still at FOX 2 in 2026 | Listed on the team page when I checked (unverified) |
WDIV or FOX 2?
FOX 2. Her profile, her story pages and the station’s team page all sit on FOX 2’s site.
So where does “WDIV” come from? Probably two places. Detroit has several rival stations whose reporters get mixed up in searches. And one data-broker profile lists WDIV-TV among her earlier employers, alongside JACK Detroit. It gives no dates or job title, and her own bio never mentions it, so I’d treat it as an unconfirmed detail, not a career chapter.
Career timeline
| Period | Role | Confidence |
| After MSU | “One man band” reporter at the FOX/CBS affiliate in Cadillac, then anchor of the 4.5-hour morning show Michigan This Morning | Confirmed (her bio) |
| About 2011–2014 | Anchor at WWTV/WWUP | Unverified (data broker, years only) |
| June 2014 | Starts at WJRT, ABC’s Flint affiliate, as a crime reporter | Third-party, unverified |
| June 2017 | Emmy win (see below) | Confirmed |
| 2017 or 2018 | Joins FOX 2 | Sources disagree: several sites say 2017, one says 2018 |
| 2026 | Listed on FOX 2 | (unverified) |
Some sites also mention a year of freelance work for JACK Detroit. That comes from third-party pages and I couldn’t confirm it.
The Flint Emmy and the Murrow awards
This is her real claim to fame, and almost nobody gets it right.
The Emmy. ABC12’s announcement, dated June 10, 2017, says the win came at that year’s Michigan Emmys, in the Breaking News category. The work recognized was coverage of the day criminal charges were announced in connection with the Flint Water Emergency. So it honors one specific, high-pressure day, not a general “water crisis” body of work, which is how copy-paste bios make it sound.
The Murrow awards. Her bio says she was the main contributor to two regional Edward R. Murrow awards. Here’s what I could confirm: ABC12 was recognized by RTDNA with a regional Murrow for its Flint water coverage for the second year in a row. The announcement marks three years since the 2014 water switch, which puts it in April 2017. The page snippet I saw doesn’t print the year, so that date is my reading of the text. The announcement credits the newsroom, not individual reporters, so her role in those wins rests on her own bio.
Her bio also says she started at the height of the crisis, covered water stories for three years, and earned the community’s trust at a hard time. That detail is what makes the Flint chapter more than a résumé line.
Education
Michigan State University. Several bio sites add “B.A. in Broadcast Journalism, 2010”, and the data-broker profile lists 2008–2010. Neither is an MSU or station source, so treat degree and years as likely, not confirmed.
What she covers
Her FOX 2 pages show general-assignment news with a crime lean, plus offbeat features. She once tracked down a former lottery jackpot winner to ask what it’s really like. During the early COVID-19 period she reported on her own flight home from South Africa. Her page also lists a story about a Detroit goat nicknamed Smokey, so she clearly gets the strange and charming ones too.
Age
It isn’t confirmed. Many bio sites print “January 1, 1989”, but they copy one another, and another site says her date of birth has been kept private. January 1 is also a common placeholder date on this kind of page. I’d leave her age blank until she or the station states it.
Husband and family
Nothing credible is public. Her bio doesn’t mention a partner, children or parents, and she hasn’t made her personal life part of her work profile. I’m not going to guess.
Salary and net worth
There’s no verified figure. TV stations rarely publish reporter pay. The sites that print numbers can’t even agree with each other:
| Site | Net worth | Salary |
| Site A | $1 million | $100,000 |
| Site B | $1–5 million | not given |
| Site C | $2 million | $100,000 |
| Site D | not given | $46,000–$79,999 |
Net worth claims run from $1 million to $5 million. Salary claims run from $46,000 to $100,000, a gap of at least $54,000 between the lowest and highest figure. When “estimates” disagree this much with no sources, they’re guesses, and I wouldn’t cite any of them.
Height, name and Wikipedia
- Height: One junk page says 5′7″ with no source. I’m not repeating it, or the weight figure next to it.
- Name: Spellings like “Dunnack” and “Dunak” appear only on low-quality pages and look like typos. Nothing suggests her name is anything but Jessica Dupnack.
- Wikipedia: I found no Wikipedia page for her. Sites with “Wikipedia” in their titles are just matching what people search for.
Social media
I couldn’t verify any personal handles for her. One aggregator claims she has “thousands of subscribers” across several platforms, with no proof offered. For anything official, use her FOX 2 profile page.
How to verify her details yourself
- FOX 2’s staff profile and team page, for her current role.
- The Michigan chapter of NATAS, for Emmy records.
- RTDNA’s Murrow award listings, for the station-level wins.
- ABC12/WJRT’s own announcements, for her Flint years.
FAQs
Where does Jessica Dupnack work?
FOX 2 Detroit. Her bio says weeknights and weekends, and the team page lists her on the 5 and 6 p.m. news. Whether that’s still true in 2026 is (unverified), so check the FOX 2 site.
Did she win an Emmy?
Yes. It was a 2017 Michigan regional Emmy in Breaking News, shared with producer Peggy Agar, for coverage of the day charges were announced in the Flint water case.
Did she work at WDIV?
Her official bio doesn’t say so. One data-broker listing does, with no details, so it’s unconfirmed.
How old is Jessica Dupnack?
Her age hasn’t been confirmed. The commonly repeated “January 1, 1989” is copied between sites and looks like a placeholder.
Is she married?
No credible source says. She hasn’t shared it publicly.
What’s her net worth?
Unknown. Online figures range from $1M to $5M and contradict each other.
Does she have a Wikipedia page?
I couldn’t find one.
Is she on social media?
I couldn’t find any verified personal account. Some sites claim large followings but show no evidence. Her FOX 2 profile page is the safest place to start.
Conclusion
Strip away the filler and the real story is a good one: a Detroit kid who started as a one-person crew in Cadillac, spent three years on Flint’s crime and water beat, shared an Emmy for covering the day charges came down, and ended up at the station she grew up watching. Her age, family, pay and net worth aren’t public, and the numbers floating around online are guesses. Check FOX 2’s own pages for her current role.
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Shahzad is the founder and lead writer at WorthRada. He writes about celebrity net worth, biographies, careers, income, and success stories, with a focus on providing clear, well-researched, and reliable information.
