Jon Scott

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Jon Scott
Born
Jonathan Arthur Scott

(1958-11-07) November 7, 1958 (age 65)
Alma materUniversity of Missouri at Columbia
OccupationTelevision news anchor
EmployerFox Entertainment Group
SpouseSharon Scott
Children4

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, 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 Lutheran High School. He studied journalism at the University of MissouriColumbia.[citation needed
]

Career

Scott began his career as a correspondent for

KUSA-TV (NBC) in Denver.[1] Beginning in 1988, Scott was a reporter for the syndicated news program Inside Edition
.

From 1992 to 1995 Scott was a correspondent for

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,[5] 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.[6]

References

  1. ^ "On Air Personalities". Fox News. January 13, 2011. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
  2. ^ Scott, Jon (September 11, 2001). "Fox News Alert: Witnesses Report Hearing Huge Explosion". Fox News Live. New York City: Fox News. Given what has been going on around the world some of the key suspects come to mind: Osama bin Laden...
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  4. ^ Stelter, Brian (May 2, 2011). "U.S. Networks Scramble on News of Bin Laden's Death". New York Times.
  5. ^ "FAA - Unhandled Error". amsrvs.registry.faa.gov.
  6. ^ "Jon Scotts personal story". Fox News. July 3, 2007. Retrieved May 2, 2011.

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