Shannon Bream
{{Short description|American journalist}}
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| name = Shannon Bream
| image = Shannon Bream (53133033293) (cropped).jpg
| caption = Bream in 2023
| birthname = Shannon Noelle DePuy
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|12|23}}
| birth_place = Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
| education = Liberty University (BS)
Florida State University (JD)
| occupation = Television news anchor, reporter, attorney
| employer = Fox News Media
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Shannon Noelle Bream ({{née}} DePuy; born December 23, 1970){{cite news|url=http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/11/11/thank-you-veterans/|title=Thank You Veterans |publisher=Fox News|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111004103334/http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/11/11/thank-you-veterans/| archive-date=October 4, 2011|quote=Ed DePuy ... my father}}{{cite news|url=https://www.glamour.com/story/how-fox-news-channels-shannon| title=How Fox News Channel's Shannon Bream Went From Pageants to Politics|first=Linda Kramer|last = Jenning|work=Glamour| date=September 10, 2012|access-date=March 26, 2018|quote= For Shannon Bream, now 41 [as of September 10, 2012]...}}{{cite web | url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/23/playbook-birthday-shannon-bream-450213 | title=BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Shannon Bream, anchor of 'Fox News @ Night' and chief legal correspondent | website=Politico | date=23 December 2020 }} is an American journalist and attorney who is a host of Fox News Sunday on Fox News. She is also chief legal correspondent for the channel.{{Cite web |date=2024-06-20 |title=Shannon Bream |url=https://www.foxnews.com/person/b/shannon-bream |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}} In 2022, she became host of Fox News Sunday.{{cite web | url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/shannon-bream-named-fox-news-sunday-host-becoming-first-woman-anchor-program-26-year-history | title=Shannon Bream named 'FOX News Sunday' host, becoming first woman to anchor program in its 26-year history | website=Fox News | date=11 August 2022 }}
Prior to hosting Fox News Sunday, she was the host of Fox News @ Night for five years. She was also a former contestant in the Miss America 1991 and Miss USA 1995 pageants. She was a correspondent for News 12 Networks on Long Island in the 1990s.
Early life and education
Bream was born and raised in Tallahassee, Florida to Linda (née Evans; 1949-2006), a county clerk and law office manager, and police officer and former Leon County Commissioner Clarence Edward DePuy Jr. (1946-2013).{{cite web | url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/tallahassee/name/linda-depuy-obituary?id=26182654 | title=Linda DePuy Obituary (2006) - Tallahassee, FL - Tallahassee Democrat | website=Legacy.com }}{{cite web | url=https://twotenmag.com/magazine/issue-6/features/good-news-on-location-with-shannon-bream/ | title=On Location with Shannon Bream | TwoTen Magazine }}{{Cite news|first= |last= |author-link= |title= Clarence Edward "Ed" DePuy Jr. Obituary |newspaper=The Palm Beach Post|date=April 19, 2013 |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/palmbeachpost/name/clarence-depuy-obituary?id=18323897 |via=legacy.com}} She attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia and, while there, won the pageant title Miss Virginia in 1990. She then participated and finished in the top 10 in the Miss America 1991 pageant, where she was awarded a scholarship award that covered much of her undergraduate education.{{cite news|url=http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/11/01/3638538/shannon-bream-proved-old-boss.html#storylink=cpy|title=Shannon Bream proved old boss wrong|first=Mark|last=Washburn|date=November 2, 2012|work=Charlotte Observer|location=North Carolina|archive-date=July 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721131411/http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/11/01/3638538/shannon-bream-proved-old-boss.html#storylink=cpy|url-status=dead}}
After graduating from Liberty University in 1993 with a business management degree magna cum laude,{{Cite web|title=Shannon Bream Speaking Engagement|url=https://www.wsb.com/speakers/shannon-bream/|access-date=2020-12-31|publisher=Omnicom Group: Washington Speakers Bureau}} Bream attended Florida State University College of Law, where she interned with U.S. Congressman Bill McCollum, who was later appointed Florida Attorney General. While at law school at Florida State, she won the Miss Florida USA pageant in 1995 and placed fourth in the Miss USA 1995 pageant, which paid for her law school education.
Career
After graduating with a JD degree with honors from Florida State University College of Law in 1996, Bream moved to Tampa, Florida, where she began her career as a lawyer specializing in race discrimination and sexual harassment.{{cite web|url=http://www.glamour.com/inspired/blogs/the-conversation/2012/09/how-fox-news-channels-shannon.html|title=How FOX News Channel's Shannon Bream Went From Pageants to Politics|author=Linda Kramer Jenning|work=Glamour|date=10 September 2012 |access-date=April 14, 2016}}
In 2001, she transitioned to television journalism, becoming the evening and late-night news reporter for WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina. 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.{{cite web |title=Shannon Bream |url=http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/shannon-bream/bio/ |website=Fox News |access-date=22 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725110030/http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/shannon-bream/bio/#s=a-d|archive-date= 25 July 2014}}
While at WRC-TV, Bream met Brit Hume, who was the managing editor of Fox News's Washington, D.C. bureau. With Hume's encouragement, she submitted audition tapes to Fox News.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.liberty.edu/libertyjournal/index.cfm?PID=15758§ion=8&artid=710&CFID=5038969&CFTOKEN=60347344|title=Supreme Dedication|first=Teresa|last=Dunham| magazine=Liberty Journal|publisher=Liberty University|location=Lynchburg, Virginia|date=April 1, 2009|archive-date=April 26, 2009|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090426090916/http://www.liberty.edu/libertyjournal/index.cfm?PID=15758§ion=8&artid=710&CFID=5038969&CFTOKEN=60347344|url-status=dead}} Bream joined Fox News in November 2007, and was based in the network's Washington, D.C. bureau. She then became the anchor/host of Fox News @ Night.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/shannon-bream-to-host-new-fox-news-night-prime-time-show/|title=Shannon Bream to host new 'Fox News @ Night' prime-time show|publisher=Fox News |date= September 21, 2017|access-date=March 26, 2018|first=Brian|last=Flood}}
On August 11, 2022, it was announced that Bream would replace Chris Wallace as Fox News Sunday{{'s}} new anchor, beginning September 11, 2022.
In addition to hosting Fox News Sunday, Bream appears periodically on other Fox News programs, including America's Newsroom, Outnumbered, America Reports, The Story with Martha MacCallum, The Five, Special Report and Gutfeld! as a guest and as a substitute host.
Bream is the author of three books: Finding the Bright Side: The Art of Chasing What Matters,{{Cite web|last=Johnson|first=Ted|date=2020-01-17|title=Fox News Channel Signs Shannon Bream To New Deal|url=https://deadline.com/2020/01/fox-news-channel-shannon-bream-1202834029/|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Deadline|language=en-US}} The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today,{{Cite web|last1=Towers|first1=Andrea|last2=Ellefson|first2=Lindsey|date=2021-03-31|title=Fox News' Shannon Bream Caps 'Difficult Year' With Her New Best-Seller|url=https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-books-shannon-bream-the-women-of-the-bible-speak/|access-date=2021-06-19|website=The Wrap|language=en-US}} and The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families.{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Daughters-Bible-Speak-Biblical-ebook/dp/B09C64SWN3/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1648700178&refinements=p_27%3AShannon+Bream&s=books&sr=1-1 | title=The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families | date=29 March 2022 | publisher=Broadside e-books }} The book The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today reached the number one spot on The New York Times Best Seller list.{{Cite web|last=Byrnes|first=Jesse|date=2021-04-08|title=Fox News anchor Shannon Bream's book tops NY Times bestseller list|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/547220-fox-news-anchor-shannon-breams-book-tops-nytimes-bestseller-list|access-date=2021-06-19|website=The Hill|language=en}}
Personal life
Bream is a Christian and is trained as a classical pianist. Bream's husband, Sheldon Bream, has a company that connects event planners with speakers, and is a brain tumor survivor.{{cite web |title=Shannon Bream opens up about husband's brain tumor: 'It just threw our world into a tailspin' |url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/shannon-bream-husband-brain-tumor |website=Fox News |date=13 January 2020 |access-date=22 July 2021}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140725110030/http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/shannon-bream/bio/#s=a-d Shannon Bream] Fox News biography
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Category:Miss USA 1995 delegates
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Category:People from Tallahassee, Florida
Category:People from Tampa, Florida