Eric Shawn joined FOX News Channel when it launched in 1996 and currently serves as a New York-based anchor and senior correspondent. He is also the host of Riddle: The Search for James R. Hoffa on FOX Nation, FNC's on-demand subscription-based streaming service, which is based upon his extensive reporting on the appearance of notorious Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.
Previously, Shawn served as the weekend co-anchor of FOX News Live, which was routinely the top-rated program in its weekend timeslots. Throughout his tenure with the network, he has covered numerous breaking news stories and events. In 2024, he provided viewers with live coverage surrounding the hush money trial of then-former President Trump and reported on the 2024 presidential election. Previously, he anchored special coverage surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Prior to that, he provided the latest breaking election news from New York and Pennsylvania during FNC’s Democracy 2020 election coverage.
Specializing in politics and terrorism, he has anchored hour-long news specials on topics ranging from election coverage to investigative documentaries as well as breaking news. He has also provided live coverage of every major political cycle for the network since joining in 1996. Notably, Shawn covered the terrorist attacks of September 11 from Ground Zero for months after the towers collapsed and subsequently covered additional U.S. terror cases. In 2004, he led a Fox News investigation that uncovered new evidence in the murder of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, based on the claims of hit-man Frank Sheeran, who admitted to Shawn, and in his biography, that he shot Hoffa in a house in Detroit. The investigation revealed a "blood pattern" on the floor of the house that fit Sheeran's story precisely.
Shawn regularly reports from the United Nations, including coverage of the Iraq War, diplomatic developments at the United Nations, the Michael Skakel trial, the death of Princess Diana, and other breaking stories around the globe. 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 Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert and Ariel Sharon. He also sat down with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for an extensive in-depth interview in September 2010 and has also interviewed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Shawn's interview with Pakistan activist and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was conducted just a few months before her assassination, in 2007.
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 siege in Waco, Texas, the Freeman standoff, the William Kennedy Smith trial, the 1992 Clinton campaign, as well as the White House. 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 directly from the courthouse in Los Angeles. Additionally, Shawn was a reporter for WNYW-TV (FOX) in New York beginning in 1989 and before that he was an anchor and reporter at WPIX-TV and WNYC-TV, in New York.
Shawn graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in urban studies. He is the author of the book "U.N. Exposed".