Jonathan Arthur Scott (born November 7, 1958) is an American television news anchor who hosts ''
Fox Report Weekend'' on
Fox News. Also, Scott is the lead anchor for any breaking news each weekend. Jon Scott longtime co-anchored ''
Happening Now'' on
Fox News until the network expanded
America's Newsroom from 2 hours to 3, ending the show in June 2018 after 11 years of being on air. Scott was also the host of ''
Fox News Watch
''Fox News Watch'' was an American current event debate program on the Fox News Channel hosted by Jon Scott which was dedicated to discussing media bias. The show ended August 31, 2013, replaced by the similar ''MediaBuzz''.
Format
The show f ...
'', a program that in September 2013 was replaced by the similar format ''
Media Buzz'', which is hosted by
Howard Kurtz.
Early life and education
Scott was born in
Denver,
Colorado, and graduated from
Denver Lutheran High School
Lutheran High School is a private school, private Lutheran school, Lutheran high school located in Parker, Colorado, in the United States. Affiliated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, the school is accredited by the National Lutheran Scho ...
. He studied journalism at the
University of Missouri–
Columbia
Columbia may refer to:
* Columbia (personification), the historical female national personification of the United States, and a poetic name for America
Places North America Natural features
* Columbia Plateau, a geologic and geographic region in ...
.
Career
Scott began his career as a correspondent for
KOMU-TV (
NBC) in
Columbia, Missouri
Columbia is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is the county seat of Boone County and home to the University of Missouri. Founded in 1821, it is the principal city of the five-county Columbia metropolitan area. It is Missouri's fourth ...
, a station owned and operated by University of Missouri, Mizzou. Later, he was the weekday evening news anchor, weekend co-anchor, and reporter for WPLG-TV (American Broadcasting Company, ABC) in Miami. He also worked as a reporter and bureau chief for KUSA-TV (NBC) in
Denver. Beginning in 1988, Scott was a reporter for the syndicated news program ''Inside Edition''.
From 1992 to 1995 Scott was a correspondent for ''Dateline NBC''. He served as the host of ''A Current Affair (American TV program), A Current Affair'' and eventually joined the Fox News Channel in 1996. He is an avid watcher of ''The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour''. Scott was hosting ''Fox News Live'' during the September 11 attacks and was the first on-air reporter to suggest that the attacks may have been perpetrated by Osama bin Laden. During May 1 and 2, 2011, he served as the studio anchor for Fox News coverage of the death of Osama bin Laden.
He received an Emmy for news writing for the NBC program ''Dateline''.
Personal life
He is also a licensed pilot, rated to fly single-engine airplanes, and sometimes uses his expertise when covering aviation stories, such as the July 6, 2013, crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214.
Scott has four children. One son is in the army after graduating from the United States Military Academy in 2011. His older brother was an infantryman in the Vietnam War.
References
External links
Bio on FoxNews.com Jon Scott comes home with Fox News
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1958 births
Living people
American television journalists
American broadcast news analysts
Emmy Award winners
Mass media people from Denver
Aviators from Colorado
Missouri School of Journalism alumni
Fox News people
American male journalists