Actor / Director Profile

Shepard Smith anchors Fox News' signature evening newscast The Fox Report and anchors the 3 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET portion of Fox News Live, the network's daytime hard news programming. Smith joined Fox News as a general assignment reporter for the New York bureau in 1996. He was later promoted to senior correspondent for the network. While at Fox News, Smith has covered a number of breaking news stories, including the Columbine school shootings; Pres. Clinton's impeachment trial; the conflict in Kosovo; the Jonesboro, Ark. and Paducah, Ky. school shootings; the 1997 standoff between the U.N. and Iraq; Princess Diana's funeral; the murder of Gianni Versace and the O.J. Simpson civil trial.Before joining the network, Smith was a Fox News Edge correspondent in Los Angeles where he covered a range of stories for the affiliate news service, including the crash of TWA Flight 800, the Montana Freemen standoff, the 1996 presidential campaign, and the Oklahoma City bombing. He also worked as a news reporter for the Twentieth Century Television syndicated program A Current Affair. Smith began his journalism career at WJHG-TV (NBC) in Panama City, Fla.