About Eric Shawn

Veteran newsman Eric Shawn is a senior correspondent and anchor for the Fox News Channel. He has been a television reporter for more than 25 years, beginning his career in local news at WNYC-TV,  WPIX-TV and then later at WNYW TV in New York. He currently anchors on Fox News Sunday mornings, from 10:30 to 12 noon E.S.T. He has covered stories everywhere from the Persian Gulf to Somalia to the White House to the O.J. Simpson trial, where he also anchored the Fox Television network coverage of the verdict. He covered the Clinton '92 campaign for President among many other races, and specializes in politics, terrorism, and crime reporting. He first covered the U.N. in 1982, reporting on then U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, who had been one of Eric's professors at Georgetown University. He lives in New York with his family.

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