William G. Hemmer is an American journalist, currently the co-anchor of America’s Newsroom on the Fox News Channel, based in New York City.
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Hemmer is the son of William (Bill), a retired mattress manufacturing-company executive, and Georganne, a homemaker. He is the middle child and second son of Hemmers’ five children.
Bill Hemmer’s Career
Hemmer worked at CNN from 1995 to 2005, hosting a number of programs, including American Morning (originally with Paula Zahn, and later with Soledad O’Brien), CNN Tonight, CNN Early Edition, CNN Morning News, and CNN Live Today with co-anchor Daryn Kagan.
In May 2001, Hemmer played an instrumental role in the network’s coverage of the Timothy McVeigh execution, reporting from Terre Haute, Indiana, where McVeigh was put to death for his part in the Oklahoma City bombing.
In 2003, Hemmer traveled to Kuwait to report on escalating tensions in Iraq and remained on-site to cover Operation Iraqi Freedom when the war began. He also spent more than a month covering the crisis in Kosovo, where he reported on the aerial bombing missions from Aviano Air Base in Italy, the refugee crisis from Skopje, Macedonia, and the latest NATO developments from Brussels.