Bill Hemmer

Bill Hemmer
Born	(1964-11-14) November 14, 1964 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.
Occupation(s)	Co-host of America's Newsroom" and America's Election HQ
Website	Biography on FoxNews.com

Bill Hemmer (born William George Hemmer, JR on November 14, 1964 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American television news anchor. He is currently a co-host of America's Newsroom on the Fox News Channel. The New York Times has announced that he is also the new co-host (again with Megan Kelley) of Fox's America's Election HQ which now airs in the former "Big Story with John Gibson" slot during prime time.

He is the son of William Hemmer and Georganne Knittle. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, he is the middle child and oldest son of the Hemmer's five children. He attended Catholic parochial school before graduating from Elder High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He has been a member of the Roman Catholic faith since birth and has given interviews admitting his continued practice of the faith. Although he lives in New York, he returns to Cincinnati yearly to host (along with his parents and siblings) the George Knittle Memorial Bayley Place Golf Classic in honor of his grandfather which benefits Bayley Place Assisted Living in Cincinnati.

While in college, Hemmer interned as a radio DJ and later moved to an internship at Cincinnati's CBS affiliate where he later moved to weekend sports. He took a year long hiatus from CBS to take a trip around the world and wrote dispatches, submitted tapes and photos for both the local newspaper and CBS's local affiliate which were published under "Hemmer's Travels." On his return from hiatus, he returned only briefly to anchoring locally before accepting a position at CNN's Atlanta office.

Hemmer spent ten years at CNN hosting a number of programs, including American Morning with Soledad O'Brien, CNN Tonight, CNN Early Edition, CNN Morning News, and CNN Live Today with co-anchor Daryn Kagan. During the 2000 Presidential Election aftermath, Hemmer's Florida anchor position briefly earned him the name "Chad Lad." In an interview regarding this time, Anderson Cooper noted that he (then an anchor of American Morning) learned that Hemmer had replaced him during a phone call to his office phone, which Hemmer answered. CNN had given Hemmer the office without notifying Cooper who was then on assignment overseas.

Hemmer's departure from CNN has been widely speculated about and has not been confirmed either by CNN or by Hemmer. He reportedly left CNN after the organization took him off American Morning and prepared to send him to Washington, D.C. as their Senior White House Correspondent. The New York Times noted that Miles O'Brian had been told he was replacing Hemmer six months before Hemmer himself knew he was leaving. Hemmer has publicly only cited his desire to remain in New York City as his reason for departure.

Since joining Fox News in August 2005, Hemmer has reported on a large number of stories, including the Hurricane Katrina aftermath, the 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis, the Iraq War, and he is one of the few reporters to have been embedded with U.S. Marines in Camp Fallujah, Iraq.

External links

• Bio on FoxNews.com
• America's Newsroom on FoxNews.com
• Profile in New York magazine (2003)
• Profile in The New York Observer (2007)

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