Eric Shawn is an American

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anchor and reporter for the

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, based in

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

alongside co-anchor

Arthel Neville Arthel Helena Neville (born October 20, 1962) is an American journalist, television personality, and weekend anchor for Fox News, based in Manhattan alongside co-anchor Eric Shawn. Neville is the daughter of Doris Neville and Art Neville, a Gramm ...

Early life and education

Shawn is the son of Gilbert Shawn and Melba Rae, an actress best known for her long-running role as Marge Bergman on ''

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''. He graduated from Trinity School in New York City and

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

with a degree in

urban studies Urban studies is based on the study of the urban development of cities. This includes studying the history of city development from an architectural point of view, to the impact of urban design on community development efforts. The core theoretica ...

. Shawn had a cameo role as a reporter in the 1990 film '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch''.

Career

Shawn worked as a reporter for WNYC TV at NYC City Hall during the Mayor Koch Years and

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(FOX) and

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in New York before joining

' affiliate news service, Fox News Edge as the Fox Network Anchor and Correspondent. Shawn has covered many of the major national and international stories over the past few decades, including: the

Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a Coalition of the Gulf War, 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Ba'athist Iraq, ...

, the 1992 Clinton campaign, the Democratic and Republican national conventions, and the

O. J. Simpson murder case ''The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson'' was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court starting in 1994, in which O. J. Simpson, a former National Football League (NFL) player, broadcaster and actor, was ...

among many other breaking stories. In 2001, Mafia hitman

Frank Sheeran Francis Joseph Sheeran (October 25, 1920 – December 14, 2003), also known as "The Irishman", was an American labor union official and enforcer for Jimmy Hoffa and Russell Bufalino. He was accused of having links to the Pittston crime family ...

told Shawn that he shot labor leader Jimmy Hoffa in a house in Detroit on July 30, 1975 and Shawn led the team that found blood evidence on that house's floor in 2004. Shawn's efforts led to the publication of the book '' I Heard You Paint Houses'' and the film ''

The Irishman ''The Irishman'' (subtitled onscreen as ''I Heard You Paint Houses'') is a 2019 American epic gangster film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese and written by Steven Zaillian, based on the 2004 nonfiction book ''I Heard You Paint Hou ...

.” He is the anchor of the special Fox Nation series about the Hoffa case, “Riddle: The Search For James R. Hoffa.” Shawn anchored on Fox News Channel on election night in 2014 and 2016 and has produced and reported a variety of documentary specials, including "Riddle: The Search for James R. Hoffa" on the streaming service Fox Nation. He currently co-anchors the weekend programs of 'America's News Headquarters" with

as well as anchors during the week and serves as the Senior Correspondent for the network.

Notable interview subjects

President of Iran The president of Iran ( fa, رئیس‌جمهور ایران, Rayis Jomhur-e Irān) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The president is the second highest-ranking official of Iran after the Supreme Leader. The president ...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (September 24, 2010) *

Israeli Prime Minister The prime minister of Israel ( he, רֹאשׁ הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה, Rosh HaMemshala, Head of the Government, Hebrew acronym: he2, רה״מ; ar, رئيس الحكومة, ''Ra'īs al-Ḥukūma'') is the head of government and chief exe ...

Shimon Peres (September 28, 2016)Fox News - "Eric Shawn reports: Shimon Peres"
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Benjamin Netanyahu Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (; ; born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021. He is currently serving as Leader of the Opposition and Chairman of ...

* President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez *

British Prime Minister The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As moder ...

Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...

Prime Minister of Pakistan The prime minister of Pakistan ( ur, , romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam , ) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and his chosen cabinet, despite the president of Pa ...

Benazir Bhutto

Filmography

Books

*''The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World''.

Sentinel Sentinel may refer to: Places Mountains * Mount Sentinel, a mountain next to the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana * Sentinel Buttress, a volcanic crag on James Ross Island, Antarctica * Sentinel Dome, a naturally occurring grani ...

(May 4, 2006)

References

External links

Fox News Bio
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