Hemmer accepted a position at CNN as a correspondent and he would go on to spent 10 years there. At CNN, he co-hosted shows like "CNN Morning News", "CNN Tonight", "CNN Live Today" and "CNN Early Edition." He went on to do a live webcast of the funeral ceremony of the great Pope John Paul 2nd from the old Vatican City in 2005. He also reported for both the Democratic and the Republic Conventions held in 2004. He was then transferred to the country of Kuwait to cover the Iraqi Freedom operation when the war began in 2003. In 2002, he reported on the mining accident in Pennsylvania where nine workers were trapped for almost 3 days in a tunnel.
Hemmer eventually joined Fox News in August 2005. While at Fox, he handled extensive coverage of important events on programs like "American Morning", "America's Election", and "Fox Online". Bill Hemmer is known to have been embedded with U.S. Marines in Camp Fallujah, in Iraq. In 2008, Bill was sent to cover the post-Iraq War troop surge and traveled to Baghdad to document the conditions. Bill was a fundamental factor in covering the election night of 2012 while monitoring FBC’s “Bill Board” and covering the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina and the Republican National Convention in Tampa. In 2020, he serves as a top anchor for Fox News and hosts his own program called Bill Hemmer Reports.
Bill Hemmer has come a long way in his media career and has received many awards for his coverage. Hemmer started the William G. Hemmer Scholarship award in 2005. He started the award to support any deserving student of Elder High School who has an interest in journalism and traveling around the world. Hemmer is no doubt one among the most widely respected journalists today for his influential coverage throughout his career.
Return to the previous page| Date of Birth: | 14-11-1964 |
| Height: | 1.75 m |
| Alma Mater: | Miami University |
| Employer: | Fox Entertainment Group |
| Birth Place: | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
| Birth Sign: | Scorpio |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | News Anchor |
| Marital Status: | Not Yet |
| Wife: | Not Yet |
| Net Worth: | $3 Million Dollars |
| Girlfriend: | Dara Tomanovich |
| Ethnicity: | White |
| Children: | Not Yet |
| Birth Date: | 14 Nov, 1964 |
| Age: | 55 yrs |
| Occupations: | News presenter |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Cincinnati |
| Education: | Miami University |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | Television-news anchor |
| Twitter Id: | BillHemmer |
| Net Worth 2020: | 3 million |
| Net Worth 2021: | 3 million |
