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William Bret Baier ( ; born August 4, 1970) is the host of '' Special Report with Bret Baier'' on the
Baier began his television career with a local station WJWJ TV16 on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, before joining WRAL-TV, then CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina. He sent an audition tape to Fox News in 1998, and was hired as the network's Atlanta bureau chief. On September 11, 2001, he drove from Georgia to Arlington, Virginia, to cover the attack on the Pentagon. He never returned to the Atlanta bureau and was instead tapped as the network's Pentagon correspondent, remaining at the post for five years and taking 11 trips to Afghanistan and 13 trips to Iraq.
He was named Fox News's White House correspondent in 2007, covering the
Significant Sigs , Sigma Chi Fraternity
accessed October 12, 2014.
FOX News Channel: Bret Baier bio
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Baier, Bret 1970 births Living people DePauw University alumni Fox News people Marist School (Georgia) alumni People from Dunwoody, Georgia People from Rumson, New Jersey Catholics from New Jersey Catholics from Georgia (U.S. state) 21st-century American journalists
Fox News Channel
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and the chief political correspondent for Fox. He previously worked as the network's Chief White House Correspondent and Pentagon correspondent.
Early life
Baier was born in Rumson, New Jersey, to a family of mixed German and Irish origins. Raised Catholic, he attended Marist School, a private Roman Catholic high school in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating in 1988. Baier then attended the methodist DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1992 with a BA degree in political science and English. At DePauw, he became a member of the Xi Chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity.Career
Baier began his television career with a local station WJWJ TV16 on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, before joining WRAL-TV, then CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina. He sent an audition tape to Fox News in 1998, and was hired as the network's Atlanta bureau chief. On September 11, 2001, he drove from Georgia to Arlington, Virginia, to cover the attack on the Pentagon. He never returned to the Atlanta bureau and was instead tapped as the network's Pentagon correspondent, remaining at the post for five years and taking 11 trips to Afghanistan and 13 trips to Iraq.
He was named Fox News's White House correspondent in 2007, covering the administration of George W. Bush
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. In the fall of 2007, he began substituting for Brit Hume, then the anchor of ''Special Report'', on Fridays.
On December 23, 2008, Hume anchored his final show and announced Baier would replace him as anchor of ''Special Report''. He hosted his first show as permanent anchor on January 5, 2009.
In October 2021, Baier promoted his new book ''To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876'' on '' The Late Show'' with Stephen Colbert.
Recognition
*2016 Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Award for Outstanding Journalism, Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program *2017 Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, National Press Foundation *2018 Urbino Press Award, Municipality of UrbinoPersonal life
Baier, who served as an altar boy in his youth, is a practicing Roman Catholic and attends Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown. Baier and his wife Amy have two sons, Daniel and Paul. Paul was born with cardiac problems and before the child'sopen-heart surgery
Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to corr ...
in 2008, President George W. Bush invited Baier and his wife and son to the Oval Office
The Oval Office is the formal working space of the President of the United States. Part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, it is located in the West Wing of the White House, in Washington, D.C.
The oval-shaped room ...
for a visit and had the White House physician update him on Paul's progress. In 2009, Baier was named a "Significant Sig" by the Sigma Chi Fraternity.accessed October 12, 2014.
Works
* ''Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage and Love'' (2014) * ''Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission'' (2017) * ''Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire'' (2018) * ''Three Days at the Brink: FDR’s Daring Gamble to Win World War II'' (2019) * ''To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876'' (2021)References
External links
FOX News Channel: Bret Baier bio
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Baier, Bret 1970 births Living people DePauw University alumni Fox News people Marist School (Georgia) alumni People from Dunwoody, Georgia People from Rumson, New Jersey Catholics from New Jersey Catholics from Georgia (U.S. state) 21st-century American journalists