Scott Norvell is a

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ger and

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for the

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Website, having run a column there since 2001. Norvell's blog and column at Fox News, entitled "Tongue Tied", details incidents of what he considers extreme "

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". He is also the primary author of the former website www.tonguetied.us which deals with similar issues of language use, American politics, and international politics. The top of the site quotes the

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Career

Norvell is the Northeast Bureau Chief of Fox News Channel. Here he is responsible for directing the coverage of

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from

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and

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. He has been working for Fox News Channel since 1996 and has held many positions which include: Executive Editor, London-based European Bureau Chief, and head of the

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bureau. Prior to working for FNC, he reported from Time, the ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Fortune magazine'', and ''

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''. He started his career in journalism working for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, a newspaper in South

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...

, where he covered the U.S.-Mexican border. Norvell was most recently the Chief Operating Officer of

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, a digital innovation initiative within the Office of the chairman at News Corporation.

Personal life

Scott Norvell is married to Shelley Emling and together they have three children, Christopher, Benjamin, and Olivia. He is a native to Texas but he and his family live in

. Norvell obtained his degree in journalism from the

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in Columbia, Missouri. Norvell is also fluent in Spanish.

References

External links

Tongue Tied archive at foxnews.com
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