Eric Shawn is an American

United States

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 television news reporter for the Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel

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.

Shawn was born in New York City

New York City

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, the son of Gilbert Shawn, a former Army lieutenant colonel, and Melba Rae

Melba Rae

Melba Rae was an American soap opera actress.-Career:Rae was a key figure in early daytime television, playing the wife of the couple next door on Search for Tomorrow for 20 years — from its inception in 1951 until her untimely death of a cerebral hemorrhage...

, a soap opera actress best known for her role on Search for Tomorrow

Search for Tomorrow

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He currently co-hosts the Sunday morning edition of Fox News Live

Fox News Live

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with Jamie Colby

Jamie Colby

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, he also has worked as a correspondent, for the network, at the United Nations

United Nations

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. His reporting of the UN included the Oil-for-Food Programme

Oil-for-Food Programme

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, which he later wrote a book about, entitled The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World.

Before joining Fox News Channel, Shawn worked for Fox’s affiliate news service, FOX News Edge. During his time there, he covered the Unabomber arrest, the Gulf War

Gulf War

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, the 1992 Clinton campaign

Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992

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 and the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson. On September 24, 2010, Shawn sat down and interviewed Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad. Prior to his stint at FOX News Edge, Shawn was a reporter for WNYW

WNYW

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 (FOX) and WPIX

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 in New York.

He graduated from Trinity School

Trinity School

-Australia:*Trinity College, Perth*Trinity Grammar School *Trinity Grammar School -Spain:*Trinity Language School, a private accredited Spanish language school in El Puerto de Santa Maria, Cadiz-United Kingdom:...

 in New York City in 1975 and Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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 in 1979 with a degree in Urban Studies. Shawn had a cameo role as a reporter in the 1990 film Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

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Books

• The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World. Sentinel HC
  Sentinel HC
  Sentinel was established in 2003 as a dedicated conservative imprint within Penguin Group . It publishes a wide variety of right-of-center books on subjects like politics, history, public policy, culture, religion and international relations...
  
   (May 4, 2006) ISBN 1595230203

External links

• Fox News Bio