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<p>Eric Shawn is known as an American news anchor. He is most famous for his work at the Fox News Channel.</p>

<h2>Background and Age</h2>

<p>Eric Shawn was born on March 12, 1957 in New York City, New York. Eric’s father was Gilbert Shawn, he was an Army <a href="/biography/eric-shawn">Lieutenant Colonel</a> at the time of Eric's birth. His mother was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melba_Rae">Melba Rae</a>, she worked as an actress in soap opera shows. She is mostly known for her role in <em>Search for Tomorrow</em> which was a critically acclaimed soap opera at the time it was airing</p>

<p>Shawn completed his primary education and graduated from Trinity School in New York during the 1975 school year. He later went on to get a degree in Urban Studies from Georgetown University in 1979.</p>

<p>From an early age, Shawn had the curiosity to investigate things that are not immediately obvious to the general public. He was intrigued by the unknown and wanted to be one of the first to discover something so that he could share it with the people. This personality trait would eventually develop into his future career of being a newscaster.</p>

<h2>Marriage and Husband</h2>

<p>Eric Shawn is married to his wife, Camilla Shawn. They later had one child together.</p>

<h2>Career and Net Worth</h2>

<p>Eric Shawn was a <a href="/biography/eric-shawn">reporter</a> for WNYW (FOX) and WPIX in New York before he went on to the biggest step in his career. He joined the Fox News Channel when it was launched in 1996. He was there at the ground level. Decades later, it is now one of the biggest networks for the conservative audience. Even though Shawn wasn’t one of the network’s producers, he is to be proud to have been there since the beginning.</p>

<p>Shawn’s current post is being a correspondent for the Sunday morning edition of <em>Fox News Live with <a href="/biography/arthel-neville">Arthel Neville</a>, </em>Eric is one of the most influential figures on TV when it comes to reaching a conservative audience.</p>

<p>Shawn was a correspondent for Fox when the network brought reporters to meetings held by the United Nations. He would report from the United Nations meetings on different topics such as terrorism and politics, During presidential and state elections, he would moderate debates and bring live coverage of election results to the TV audience. In the 1992, 1996 and 2004 presidential elections, he provided live coverage from the conventions of both the Republican and Democratic parties.</p>

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<p>As the events of a terror attack on the World Trade Center in New York unfolded, Shawn was there to cover. In 2004, Shawn led the FOX News Investigation Team which uncovered new evidence in the case of a missing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa">person</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa">Jimmy Hoffa</a>. His investigation revealed a special pattern of blood splatter on the floor of the alleged house in which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa">Jimmy Hoffa</a> was killed. The blood splatter matched the same description as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sheeran">Frank Sheeran</a>, a known <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sheeran">hitman</a></p>

<p>Shawn also covered other major events like the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the death of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales">Princess Diana</a>, and the Iraq war. He has also interviewed some of the greatest personalities in the world such as <a href="/biography/bill-clinton">Bill Clinton</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Annan">Kofi Anan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon">Ban Ki Moon</a>. He interviewed Israeli prime ministers like <a href="/biography/benjamin-netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres">Shimon Peres</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak">Ehud Barak</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon">Ariel Sharon</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Olmert">Ehud Olmert</a>. In 2010, he interviewed the menacing Iranian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</a>.</p>

<h2>Controversy</h2>

<p>On New Year’s Eve in 2018, there was a shooting in Colorado that injured four people and killed a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy. Fox News came under fire for not including the fact that the shooter had endorsed white supremacy and posted alt right memes on his personal Facebook page.</p>

<p>Eric was the <a href="/biography/eric-shawn">one</a> who reported on the shooting on air during a Fox News’ <em>America’s Newsroom</em> broadcast, “There are some new details on the Colorado man who police say shot and killed a deputy and wounded four others. Police were contacted with concerns, they say, about the mental state of the shooter over a month before the New Year's Eve incident. That suspect, you see there on the right, identified as 37-year-old Matthew Riehl. He was an attorney and an Iraq War veteran. He also, they say, posted videos criticizing Colorado law enforcement. Police responded to a complaint at an apartment building south of Denver on Sunday. They say Riehl fired over 100 rounds at the responding officers who eventually shot and killed him.”</p>

<p>The media attacked Fox News for omitting the shooter’s white power ties because it was not the first time that they had done it. In February of 2017, there was a mosque shooting in Canada. The shooter was identified by most of the media as an “ultranationalist white supremacist”. Fox News decided to ignore the shooter’s white power association. The national media accused Fox News of omitting the white power ties because they didn't want to upset their audience. They know that their audience is full of many conservatives who would have had a problem if the shooters were labeled as alt right.</p>

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