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John Roberts

John Roberts

John Roberts joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in January 2011 as a senior national correspondent and is based in the Atlanta bureau.

Roberts has provided live coverage during numerous breaking news and political events including: the presidential debates, the Democratic and Republican national conventions and Hurricane Irene. He has traveled internationally to report on major developing news, including Yugoslavia during the NATO bombing, the London bombings of July 2005 and earthquakes in Turkey. Throughout his career, he has interviewed numerous prominent figures, including former presidents George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, former vice president Al Gore, the late Yitzhak Rabin and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.  Most recently, Roberts reported live from Moore, Oklahoma in the wake of the devastating EF5 tornado.

Prior to joining FNC, Roberts co-anchored CNN's "American Morning" from 2007 to December of 2010. Previously, he served as CNN's senior national correspondent and anchor of "This Week at War," examining international wars, including those in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Before joining CNN in 2006, he spent more than 14 years with CBS News, during which he was the chief White House correspondent, chief medical correspondent and anchor of the weekend editions of the "CBS Evening News" and "CBS Morning News." While there, he was embedded with the U.S. Marines during the war in Iraq and anchored the "CBS Evening News" coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the death of Pope John Paul II.

From 1994-1995, Roberts anchored the evening news on WCBS-TV in New York, where he earned an Emmy and a New York Press Club award. He has received three national Emmy Awards for his coverage of the Atlanta Olympic bombing, the death of Princess Diana and the TWA crash. Roberts also earned a National Headline Award for his coverage of the crisis along the Israeli-Lebanese border in 2006.

Roberts began his career in Canada, where he worked as an anchor and correspondent for City TV in Toronto and also co-anchored CTV's morning news program, "Canada A.M." from 1990-1992.