Jonathan Arthur Scott (born November 7, 1958) is an American television news anchor who hosts '' Fox Report Weekend'' on

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. Also, Scott is the lead anchor for any breaking news each weekend. Jon Scott longtime co-anchored '' Happening Now'' on

until the network expanded ''

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'' from 2 hours to 3, ending the show in June 2018 after 11 years of being on air. Scott was also the host of ''

Fox News Watch ''Fox News Watch'' was an Sunday morning show on Fox News Channel hosted by Jon Scott which discussed the week in review, mainly American media coverage of current events. The show ended on August 31, 2013. ''News Watch'' was then replaced by ...

'', a program that in September 2013 was replaced by the similar format '' Media Buzz'', which is hosted by

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Early life and education

Scott was born in

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, and graduated from Denver Lutheran High School. He studied journalism at the

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– Columbia.

Career

Scott began his career as a correspondent for

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(

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) in

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, a station owned and operated by the

. Later, he was the weekday evening news anchor, weekend co-anchor, and reporter for WPLG-TV ( ABC) in

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. He also worked as a reporter and bureau chief for

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(NBC) in

. Beginning in 1988, Scott was a reporter for the syndicated news program ''

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''. From 1992 to 1995 Scott was a correspondent for ''

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''. He served as the host of '' A Current Affair'' and eventually joined the Fox News Channel in 1996. He is an avid watcher of ''The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour''. Scott was hosting ''Fox News Live'' during the

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and was the person to suggest on air that the attacks may have been perpetrated by

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. Scott was training to be an airplane pilot at the time, and studied the Bojinka plot, a joint cooperation of Ramzi Yousef with bin Laden that had resulted in one death and ten injured on an airline flight. Scott was able to trace the timeline of the Bojinka plot and what was happening in the United States at the time, allowing him to call out the potential it was a bin Laden plot. On May 1 and 2, 2011, he served as the studio anchor for Fox News' coverage of

Operation Neptune Spear On 2 May 2011, the United States conducted Operation Neptune Spear, in which SEAL Team Six shot and killed Osama bin Laden at his " Waziristan Haveli" in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden, who founded al-Qaeda and orchestrated the September ...

, the mission in which bin Laden was killed by American forces. Scott received an Emmy for news writing for the NBC program ''Dateline''.

Personal life

Scott is a certificated pilot, rated to fly single- and multi-engine airplanes, and sometimes uses his expertise when covering aviation stories, such as the July 6, 2013, crash of

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. Scott has four children. One son is in the army after graduating from the

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in 2011. His older brother was an infantryman in the

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References

External links

Bio on FoxNews.com

Jon Scott comes home with Fox News
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