Sarah Palin to take new job as Fox pundit

According to Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post's doyen of media correspondents, Fox has taken Sarah Palin on board as a pundit who will appear on several of the cable news channel's shows. The deal, once confirmed, will give the former vice-presidential candidate an invaluable television platform that will beam her into millions of potential voters' homes. It ends months of speculation after her surprise announcement in July last year that she was standing down as governor of Alaska.