Eric Shawn, a New York-based anchor and correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC), joined the network when it launched in 1996. He anchors "FOX News Live" on Sunday mornings from 10 a.m.-Noon ET. Shawn also regularly report from the United Nations and has filed numerous FOX News investigations of the United Nations.

Most recently, Shawn reported extensively on U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, including an exclusive interview with Paul Volcker. Prior to that, he provided live coverage from the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. Shawn covered September 11th from Ground Zero for months after the towers collapsed and subsequently reported on the anthrax threat in New York City. He also reported on the Michael Skakel trial, the death of Princess Diana, the Iraqi standoff with the United Nations, the Indian and Pakistani nuclear war threats and the O.J. Simpson murder trial verdict. He has interviewed world leaders from President Bill Clinton, to U.N. Secretary Generals Kofi Annan and Ban Ki Moon, as well as Israeli Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon, among others. He first started covering terrorist attacks against America with the shooting in 1990 of Rabbi Meir Kahane, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and New York City bombing plot, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, and the attacks and aftermath of 9/11.

Prior to joining FNC, Shawn served as a correspondent for FOX News Edge. He covered numerous breaking news stories, including the Unabomber arrest, the TWA flight 800 crash, the seige in Waco, Texas, the Freeman standoff, the William Kennedy Smith trial, and the 1992 Clinton campaign. He also served as a war correspondent in the Persian Gulf and Somalia. Shawn also provided daily reports for the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson direct from the courthouse in Los Angeles. Before that, he was a reporter for WNYW-TV (FOX) in New York beginning in 1989.

Shawn graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Urban Studies. He is the author of the book "U.N. Exposed" and was also a correspondent for the FOX Network News magazine, "Fox Files."