Fox News hires veteran reporter John Roberts

Fox News hires veteran reporter John Roberts
NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran CNN and CBS reporter and anchorman John Roberts is joining Fox News Channel. The network announced Monday that Roberts was joining the network as a senior national correspondent. Roberts was most recently a host of CNN’s “American Morning,” but he was bumped from that job when the network announced a reorganization last month. He had been discussing a transfer to Atlanta, home base for his fiancee, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips. Roberts spent 14 years w...

CNN's John Roberts leaves to go to FOXNEWS...
Long-time CBS News and recent CNN anchor John Roberts will join Fox News as a national correspondent, the top-rated cable channel announced today. Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news editorial for FOX, said Roberts will be the channel's senior national correspondent. “We are excited to welcome John to FOX News — his reputation as a skilled Journalist with years of notable experience in the field will be a valuable addition to our news programming,” Clemente said in ...

CNNs Roberts expected to join Fox News
John Roberts will be an Atlanta-based senior national correspondent and report on major domestic and international stories for Fox News, reports Colby Hall. “Some industry insiders are sure to see this as somewhat of a coup for Fox News, as Roberts will shore up the news side of FNC’s news programming,” he writes. Help! for Writers Offline for a few weeks? Catch up on the headlines you missed over the holidays Offline for a few weeks? Catch up on the headlines you missed over t...

John Roberts To Fox News
CNN host John Roberts is expected to join Fox News as a senior national correspondent, according to TVNewser. Roberts, who is engaged to CNN anchor Kyra Phillips, recently left the New York-based "American Morning" to move to Atlanta with Phillips, who is pregnant with twins. He will be based in Atlanta and "will be reporting on major domestic and international stories for the network," according to the TVNewser report. Roberts, a former Canadian TV and radio host, spent 14 years with CBS News...

Breaking: CNNs John Roberts Is Expected To Join FOX News Channel
CNN’s John Roberts is expected to join Fox News Channel as a senior national correspondent based in Atlanta and will be reporting on major domestic and international stories for the network. Roberts came up the ranks of CBS News, often filling in for then Evening News anchor Dan Rather, and was most recently co-host of CNN’s American Morning. Roberts left that show, and CNN altogether, amid major changes at American Morning. Some industry insiders are sure to see this as somewhat of a c...

CNN Host Morning Host John Roberts Expected To Join Fox News
From CBS to CNN to Fox News mediaite CNN’s John Roberts is expected to join FOX News Channel as a senior national correspondent based in Atlanta and will be reporting on major domestic and international stories for the network. Roberts came up the ranks of CBS News, often filling in for then Evening News anchor Dan Rather, and was most recently co-host of CNN’s American Morning . Some industry insiders are sure to see this as somewhat of a coup for Fox News, as Roberts will shore ...

Lame! Fox News hires progressive liberal CNN hack John Roberts
Lame! Fox News hires progressive liberal CNN hack John Roberts What’s next? Is Fox News going to go after Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann from MSNBC? Newsbusters reports that for whatever reason Fox News hired he former CNN hack John Roberts, who was the anchor CNN’s American Morning from April 2007 until the end of 2010. Apparently, Roberts will be joining Fox News as a national correspondent. Newbusters also reports on John Roberts reputation for liberal bias. You may remember ...

CNN's John Roberts Leaves For Fox News
What is this? Roberts had been taken off CNN's American Morning last month. The Orlando Sentinel's Hal Boedeker says he will be a "senior national correspondent" for Fox. Roberts, who joined CNN in  2006, was with CBS News before that and at one time was thought to be an Candidate to anchor the CBS Evening News. What is this? Please note that all comments must adhere to the NPR.org discussion rules and terms of use. See also the Community FAQ. You must be logged in to leave a comment. Login...

CNN's John Roberts Leaves For Fox News
What is this? Roberts had been taken off CNN's American Morning last month. The Orlando Sentinel's Hal Boedeker says he will be a "senior national correspondent" for Fox. Roberts, who joined CNN in  2006, was with CBS News before that and at one time was thought to be an Candidate to anchor the CBS Evening News. What is this? Please note that all comments must adhere to the NPR.org discussion rules and terms of use. See also the Community FAQ. You must be logged in to leave a comment. Login...

John Roberts to Swear in John Boehner's Aides
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in aides to incoming John Boehner on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. (Credit: AP Photo/Jay Reeves) Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath of office to incoming John Boehner aides on Tuesday, Politico reports, in a move seemingly designed to emphasize the imminent speaker's commitment to constitutional reverence. According to Politico, incoming House Speaker Boehner specifically requested that Roberts preside over the ceremony, wh...

Chief Justice John Roberts Swears in Boehner's staff
ABC's Ariane de Vogue reports: Behind closed doors Chief Justice John Roberts swore in members of speaker designate John A. Boehner’s staff this morning during a private ceremony. The Constitution requires all federal employees to take an oath to support the Constitution, but it’s not every day the oath is administered by the Chief Justice of the United States. Boehner invited Roberts to appear, and the speaker designee’s spokesman believes it could be the first time staff was sworn

On history's stage: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.
In January 1993 principal deputy U.S. Solicitor General John Roberts Jr. was arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case brought by an inmate in a Nevada penitentiary. The Prisoner, a nonsmoker who had been sharing a cell with a five-pack-a-day man, claimed that being subjected to so much Secondhand Smoke amounted to "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of his Eighth Amendment Constitutional Rights. The United States, represented by Roberts, was siding with Nevada in arguing that the ...

Freshman rep. pledges to forgo federal health insurance
Washington (CNN) - As House Republicans prepare to introduce a Repeal of the Health Care Reform Bill, one new GOP congressman said he is standing by his pledge to forgo federal Health Insurance despite a potentially expensive personal impact. Rep.-elect Joe Walsh, R-Illinois, told CNN's Jim Acosta that he and his wife will not accept the Insurance offered to members of Congress because he made a pledge during the campaign last January. "My wife and I are going to struggle a little bit because o...

In 2010s Last Hour, Fox News And CNN Each Claim New Years Eve Victory
The last 60 Minutes of 2010 ended in a draw-of sorts-with Fox News winning New Year’s Eve with the most viewers, but CNN winning in the key demographic of viewers 25-54. On CNN, the heavily promoted New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin easily beat Fox’s All American New Year’s among viewers 25-54 (715,000 viewers for CNN, to 454,000 for Fox). But among total viewers, Fox’s countdown to 2011 with Megyn Kelly and Bill Hemmer took the...

Justice Roberts swears in Boehner's staff
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. House Speaker-designate John Boehner's staff was sworn in Tuesday by U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, a congressional aide said. The aide said Boehner, an Ohio Republican, asked Roberts to perform the ceremony and also attended the swearing-in, CNN reported. "As Boehner said on election night, this isn't a time for celebration; it's a time for focus, commitment and tough choices. The challenges that lie ahead for our nation demand a serious approach," the aide to...

Right Wing Blog: Fox News Didn't Narc On 'Terror Grandma,' We Did!
A right-wing blog that tracks networks of Islamic Extremists online says it was them, not Fox News, that brought a video of a woman the network later labeled "Terror Grandma" to the attention of authorities. "FOX did not drop the dime, we did," writes blogger Howie on the Jawa Report. "Given the quick death of the video and its nature, which Ill elaborate on more later, we sent it along through the proper channels. Just to be sure." TPM was unable to independently verify Howie's claims. "Would...

Torn
Yep... that's me at the moment on the expected decision by the Pentagon to relieve Capt. Owen Honors of his command of the Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise: Capt. Owen Honors will be relieved of duty Tuesday as commander of the Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise after he broadcast sexually charged videos taken aboard the ship, a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News. Navy officials said Honors will not be kicked out of the service, though it is possible later on, pending results of a longer...

Flashback: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.
On history's stage: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. January 3, 2011 5:00 am As the youngest leader of the High Court in two centuries, he has the energy, the intellect, and the votes to reshape our world. By Roger Parloff, senior editor In January 1993 principal deputy U.S. Solicitor General John Roberts Jr. was arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case brought by an inmate in a Nevada penitentiary. The Prisoner, a nonsmoker who had been sharing a cell with a five-pack-a-day man, claime...

Freshman rep. pledges to forgo federal health insurance
Source: CNN Washington (CNN) - As House Republicans prepare to introduce a Repeal of the Health Care Reform Bill, one new GOP congressman said he is standing by his pledge to forgo federal Health Insurance despite a potentially expensive personal impact. Rep.-elect Joe Walsh, R-Illinois, told CNN's Jim Acosta that he and his wife will not accept the Insurance offered to members of Congress because he made a pledge during the campaign last January. "My wife and I are going to struggle a little bi...

Internet Gains on Television as Public's Main News Source
The Internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans’ main source of national and international news. Currently, 41% say they get most of their news about national and international news from the internet, which is little changed over the past two years but up 17 points since 2007. Television remains the most widely used source for national and international news – 66% of Americans say it is their main source of news – but that is down from 74% three years ago and 82%...

Ambulance That Carried JFK's Body Up for Auction
Like this Story? Share it: U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert Kennedy get into the Navy ambulance which carries the body of slain President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, on Nov. 22, 1963 at Andrews Air Force Base, just outside Washington, D.C. After Air Force One landed, the body of President Kennedy was taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital for an immediate Autopsy. (AFP/Getty) Learn more about the powerful family's political successes and personal misfortunes. (CBS) Those interested in ownin...

What is Florida going to do about this? (and some odds and ends)
The national Unemployment Rate is 9.8%....and guess what? Right now that number looks good to the State of Florida where their statewide Unemployment number is at a staggering 12 %. If you want to know the new Governor's plans, tune in tonight to ON THE RECORD at 10pm to hear our interview with Gov Elect Scott.... We just landed in Atlanta and have some time to kill before our next flight. It is weird for me to be in Atlanta since I used to spend a lot of time in this airport when I worked at CN...

2012: Hucks National Ad Campaign Backfiring?
You might have stumbled across the new nationwide ad that features our former Gov.-turned-Sunshine Stater Mike Huckabee, asking supporters to call a 1-800 number to sign a Repeal petition against President Obama’s Healthcare Reform package. Likely unnoticed during the course of your New Year’s celebrations, however, came an embarrassing bit of news out of the political action committee responsible for the ad/2012 Campaign commerical, Restore America’s Voice. Ken Hoagland, ...

Rep. Cantor Claims Repeal Of Health Care Reform Was "Litigated In The Last Election"
When the lame-duck Congress was debating an extension of the Bush Tax Cuts, incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) supported the unpopular GOP position by saying taxes were a "primary issue" in the Midterm Elections, even though polling indicated otherwise. Now that House Republicans are ready to approve the Repeal of Health Care reform, which is dead on arrival in the Senate, Cantor is reverting to the same rhetorical strategy. As Dave Weigel reports, Cantor told reporters today that...

OPRAH: Television doesn't make me feel good...
Interviewer (“O” editor-in-chief Susan Casey): Well, we need [the Oprah Winfrey Network] now more that ever. So much on television these days is unwatchable.” Oprah: It's just created to blur the senses. It feels like Halloween candy. Gobble it down and at the end you don't feel better—you're like, Why did I do that to myself? In recent years I started to feel that, Gee, television has lost its mind. There's no mindfulness there anymore. You used to be able to watch shows...