Eric Shawn

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birth_date = March 12, 1957
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occupation = Host of "Fox News Live," reporter
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website = http://www.ericshawnnewsman.com/

Eric Shawn (born March 12, 1957) is an American television news reporter for the Fox News Channel. He is the son of Melba Rae.

Currently co-hosting the Sunday morning edition of "Fox News Live" with Page Hopkins, he also has worked as a correspondent, for the network, at the United Nations. His reporting of the UN included the Oil-for-Food Programme, which he later wrote a book about, entitled "The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World."

Before joining Fox News Channel, Shawn worked for Fox’s affiliate news service, FOX News Edge. During his time there, he covered the Unabomber arrest, the Gulf War, the 1992 Clinton campaign and the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson. Prior to his stint at FOX News Edge, Shawn was a reporter for WNYW (FOX) and WPIX in New York.

He graduated from Georgetown University in 1980 with a degree in Urban Studies. He was raised in New York by the late lieutenant colonel Gilbert Shawn and the late soap opera actress Melba Rae. Shawn had a cameo role as a reporter in the 1990 film .

Books

*"". Sentinel HC (May 4, 2006) ISBN 1595230203

External links

* [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1234,00.html Fox News Bio]