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MSNBC is talking with former Fox News anchor Shepard Smith about joining the network, according to a report in The Daily Beast, as speculation abounds that the channel will shuffle its lineup as the 2020 election nears. Smith is being courted by MSNBC president Phil Griffin. Other networks also have been interested in…

Bill Hemmer will anchor an hour long newscast on Fox News Channel starting in January, filling the time slot after Shepard Smith’s departure. Fox News announced Hemmer as the permanent anchor in the 3 p.m. ET hour on Monday. Bill Hemmer Reports will launch on Jan. 20. Hemmer will exit Fox News Channel’s America’s…

Jeff Zucker, WarnerMedia chairman of news and sports and head of CNN, said he is “very open” to talking to Fox News alum Shepard Smith about a role on CNN. The exec made the comments in a conversation with CNN media reporter and host Brian Stelter at Citizen, a day-long event hosted in New York by the news…

Donald Trump may be rubbing salt into the wound of Shepard Smith suddenly exiting Fox News Channel today, but the anchor could be back soon-ish to shine a spotlight of truth on the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host. “The decision to leave was Shep’s and his alone," said Smith's PR representative in a statement after the…

UPDATED with more details: Shepard Smith is stepping down from Fox News Channel, effective with Friday afternoon’s edition of Shepard Smith Reporting. The anchor has been a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s attacks, after Smith had been critical of the president at certain points in his administration. Smith…

Fox News Channel’s Shepard Smith vowed – before America and Jon Stewart – to monitor Congress for any opposition to the 2020 renewal of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Smith asked Stewart who could possibly be against such funding, then, looking into the camera, addressed viewers, “If it’s one of your…

The much-proclaimed wall between opinion and reporting at Fox News got topped with some barbed wire today as opinionator Sean Hannity called news man Shepard Smith “clueless” about how the other half works. “While Shep is a friend with political views I do not share,” the Hannity host tweeted this afternoon, “and…

Shepard Smith had another one of his trademark, great-TV, Fox News-rogue moments yesterday when, already in conversation with colleague Chris Wallace, he got news that as many as eight people were in that controversial 2016 Donald Trump Jr. meeting. At one point, he even seemed to directly address his Fox viewers to…

Fox News Channel has shelved its North Carolina town hall special that had been set for The First 100 Days at 7 PM tonight to make way for continuing coverage of today’s attack in London. Chief News Anchor Shep Smith will anchor the hour. British Prime Minister Theresa May was evacuated from Parliament at about 2:30…

CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta got support in an unlikely quarter today after Donald Trump singled him out for ridicule during the president’s first news conference without his foreign-dignitary training wheels. Fox News Channel’s Shep Smith, who was among the TV journalists who devoted large swaths…

Among the outlets covering today’s news conference, at which Marin County Assistant Deputy Chief Coroner Lt. Keith Boyd said Robin Williams’ personal assistant found him hanged in his bedroom, were several TV news outlets from which have come apologies for their coverage of the actor’s death. ABC News apologized this…

When news of the LAX shooting broke, more viewers tuned to Shepard Smith and his Fox News Deck to find out what was going on than to CNN and MSNBC combined, during the peak hours of the breaking news, 10-1 PM PT. That's in keeping with FNC's position relative to its cable news competition in that block of time during…