Shannon Bream (born Shannon Noelle DePuy, December 23, 1970) is an American journalist for the Fox News Channel. On October 30 2017, Bream became the host of the new prime time show, Fox News @ Night.
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Biography
Born in Sanford, Florida, Bream is the only daughter of Marie Norris, a teacher, and Ed DePuy, a Leon County Commissioner. She attended North Florida Christian High School in Tallahassee and graduated in the class of 1988 at the age of 17. While in school, her first job was helping her mother renovate houses by scraping the paint off window panes.
Bream attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia; while attending Liberty University, she entered the Miss Virginia pageant. Bream won the title of Miss Virginia in 1990. She participated in the Miss America 1991 pageant and was one of the ten finalists. Her scholarship award covered much of her education.
After graduating from Liberty University in 1993 with a degree in Business, Bream returned to Tallahassee and attended law school at Florida State University. She interned with Florida Congressman Bill McCollum, in the US House of Representatives. McCollum would later become the Florida Attorney General. While at law school at Florida State, she won the Miss Florida USA pageant (1995) and placed fourth in the Miss USA 1995 pageant. She is one of only a few women to have competed in these two national pageants representing different states.
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Career
After graduation from Florida State University College of Law (1996), Bream moved to Tampa, Florida and began her law career .
She eventually made a career change from the legal profession to pursue a career in television news.
In 2001, she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, becoming the evening and late-night news reporter for the CBS affiliate, WBTV. In 2004, after three years at WBTV, Bream joined Washington D.C.'s NBC affiliate WRC-TV. At WRC-TV, she was a weekend anchor and covered general assignments.
While at WRC-TV, Bream met Brit Hume, who was the managing editor of the Fox News Channel - Washington Bureau. With his encouragement, she submitted audition tapes to Fox News. Bream joined the Fox News Channel in November 2007, and is based in the network's Washington, D.C. bureau. She is now the anchor/host of Fox News @ Night.
Personal life
She is married to a fellow Liberty U alumnus; they reside in the Washington, D.C. area. Shannon Bream is a Christian.
References
External links
- Biography on FoxNews.com
- Liberty.edu profile
- Twitter page
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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