Eric Shawn Biography
Eric Shawn an American television personality working as an anchor and senior correspondent for Fox News Channel based in New York. He anchors America’s News Headquarters (Saturdays 4-6PM/ET and Sundays 1-2PM/ET and 4-5PM/ET) alongside Arthel Neville. He is as well the host of Riddle: The Search for James R. Hoffa on FOX Nation.
Eric Shawn Age
Shawn was born on March 12, 1957 in New York, United States.
Eric Shawn Height and Weight
He stands tall at a height of 5 feet and 10 inches tall and has an average body weight.
Eric Shawn Education
Shawn enrolled and later graduated from Trinity School in New York City. He as well earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Urban Studies from Georgetown University.
Eric Shawn Parents and Siblings
Shawn was born to Gilbert Shawn (father) and Melba Rae who was an actress and famous for her long-running role as Marge Bergman on Search for Tomorrow. She died on December 29, 1971 aged 49 years in New York Hospital due to cerebral hemorrhage. His father relocated to Orlando, Florida later in life and died at the age of 84 in 2005. He was raised up along with his unknown sister
Eric Shawn Wife and Son
Eric is married to Lisa Shawn, the duo back at Georgetown University. They also have a son, Oliver who lives in Boston.
In an interview with Politico Staff back on March 12, 2019, Eric finally shared his family;
How/where are you celebrating your birthday and with whom?
“I will have a quiet dinner at my current favorite Italian restaurant, Antonucci, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, with my wonderful wife Lisa. (We met as students at Georgetown, and so we got to start our adventure in life together early on in our lives!) I will be no doubt be ordering their clams, done in an amazing white wine broth with herbs and — the star ingredient — pancetta.”
“Ah … it’s the little things. My only request: please, no candles on the dessert! Our son Oliver lives in Boston and, as is our family tradition, I anticipate a birthday call at 12:01 a.m. Those greetings mean the world. The more birthdays that I notch on the belt, the more reflective I find myself … the more appreciative I become of a loving family that I cherish and a career that has given me the opportunity to do what I love best…what I’ve been doing since my teen years, really.”
Eric Shawn Fox News
Shawn started off working with Fox News Channel back in 1996 when it launched. He serves as an anchor and senior correspondent based in New York. He anchors the America’s News Headquarters (Saturdays 4-6PM/ET and Sundays 1-2PM/ET and 4-5PM/ET). He as well host of Riddle: The Search for James R. Hoffa on FOX Nation, FNC’s on-demand subscription-based streaming service, which is based upon his extensive reporting into the appearance of notorious Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.
While free at FNC, he regularly reported from the United Nations and having specialized in politics and terrorism, including anchoring hour-long news specials on topics ranging from election airing to investigative documentariesand also breaking news. Heas well aired every major political cycle for the network as of 1996. He as well aired September 11 from Ground Zero for months after the towers collapsed and subsequently covered additional U.S. terror cases.
Back in 2004, he led a Fox News investigation that aired new evidence in the murder of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa on the claims of hit-man Frank Sheeran, who admitted to Shawn, and in his biography, that he shot Hoffa in a house in Detroit. The investigation revealed a “blood pattern” on the floor of the house that fit Sheeran’s story precisely.
He previously reported on the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the Iraq War diplomatic developments at the United Nations, the Michael Skakel trial, the death of Princess Diana, and other breaking stories around the globe. He as well interviewed known world leaders including President Bill Clinton, to U.N. Secretary Generals Kofi Annan and Ban Ki Moon, as well as Israeli Prime Ministers Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert and Ariel Sharon.
He as well interviewed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for an extensive in-depth back in September, 2010 and has as well interviewed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Shawn’s interview with Pakistan activist and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was conducted just a few months before her assassination, in 2007.
He first began covering terrorist attacks against America with the shooting in 1990 of Rabbi Meir Kahane, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and New York City bombing plot, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, and the attacks and aftermath of 9/11.
Eric Shawn Fox News Edge
He previously served as a correspondent for FOX News Edge. He aired a number of breaking news stories, such as the Unabomber arrest, the TWA flight 800 crash, the siege in Waco, Texas, the Freeman standoff, the William Kennedy Smith trial, the 1992 Clinton campaign, as well as the White House.
He as well served as a war correspondent in the Persian Gulf and Somalia. He as well reports daily reports for the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson direct from the courthouse in Los Angeles. He was also a reporter for WNYW-TV (FOX) in New York beginning in 1989. Prior to that, Shawn was an anchor and reporter at WPIX-TV and WNYC-TV, in New York. He is as well a correspondent for the FOX Network News magazine, FOX Files.
Eric Shawn Book
He penned author of the book “The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America’s Security and Fails the World.” (May 4, 2006).
Eric Shawn Salary
Shawn earns an estimated average salary of $75,000 per year.
Eric Shawn Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1 million.