Shepard Smith

Shepard Smith joined CNBC in July 2020. Smith is the Executive Editor of the nonpartisan "The News with Shepard Smith" on CNBC. Smith was named CNBC's Chief General News Anchor and CNBC's Chief Breaking General News Anchor. Smith worked for Fox News for 23 years beginning in 1996. Smith anchored Fox News' signature evening newscast, Fox Report with Jon Scott (1996), and anchored the 3 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET portion of Fox News Live, Studio B (2002), the network's daytime hard news programming. Smith joined Fox News as a general assignment reporter for the New York bureau in 1996. He was later promoted to senior correspondent for the network. While at Fox News, Smith covered a number of breaking news stories, including the Columbine school shootings; President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial; the conflict in Kosovo; the Jonesboro, Ark. and Paducah, Ky. school shootings; the 1997 standoff between the U.N. and Iraq; Princess Diana's funeral; the murder of Gianni Versace and the O.J. Simps