Bill Hemmer Biography
Bill Hemmer is an Emmy Award-winning New York-based American journalist who is currently the co-anchor of America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel.
How old is Bill Hemmer? – Age
He is 56 years old as of 14 November 2020. He was born in 1964 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
Who is Bill Hemmers Father? – Family
Hemmer was the son of William (Bill), a retired executive from a mattress manufacturing company, and Georganne, a housewife. He is the second son and the middle child of the Hemmers’ five children.
Is Bill Hemmer still Married? – Wife
In 2005, Bill Hemmer began dating model Dara Tomanovich. They divorced in 2013.
Bill Hemmer Education
Before graduating from Elder High School in Cincinnati in 1983, Hemmer attended Our Lady of Victory Catholic parochial school. Hemmer and a friend started a radio program at Elder during his senior year, playing fifteen minutes of music before classes began. He attributes his interest in broadcasting to this period. Hemmer graduated with honors from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Arts in broadcast journalism. He was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity at Miami University and studied in Europe at the Miami University Dolibois European Center, which was then located in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
How tall is Bill Hemmer on Fox News?
He stands at a height of 1.75 m.
Bill Hemmer House
Hemmer paid $1,750,000 for his Sag Harbor, New York home. Hemmer’s Long Island home features four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a two-story living room and dining area with glass walls, a den with a fireplace, and French doors that lead out to a large heated pool and hot tub surrounded by a brick terrace. The postmodern-style home, which was built in 2000, is 2,544 square feet in size and sits on more than two acres.
Bill Hemmer Career
He began his career in sports production at WLWT-TV in the mid-1980s, where he discovered his love of live television. Hemmer was hired as a sports producer at WLWT-TV during his senior year at Miami University. Soon after, he became a sports anchor for CBS affiliate WCPO-TV. Hemmer left WCPO-TV at the age of 26 to backpack around the world for nearly a year. Throughout the journey, Hemmer wrote dispatches and submitted tapes and photos to The Cincinnati Post, a now-defunct local newspaper, and CBS’s local affiliate, which were later compiled into a series of pieces known as “Bill’s Excellent Adventure.”
During the early days of the War on Terror, Hemmer reported from the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks and Afghanistan. Hemmer covered a mining accident that trapped nine workers for 77 hours in Somerset, Pennsylvania, in 2002. He went to Kuwait in 2003 to report on escalating tensions in Iraq, and he stayed to cover Operation Iraqi Freedom when the war started. Hemmer began working for Fox News in August 2005. In 2020, he hosted Bill Hemmer Reports, a weekday afternoon newscast, and served as Chief Anchor for breaking news and other live major events. Prior to that, he was America’s Newsroom’s first-morning co-anchor. He was a part of the network’s coverage of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. During the summer 2006 war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah, Hemmer reported from the front lines in the northern Israeli town of Metula.
Hemmer covered political party conventions from their respective cities during 2008, 2012, and 2016 election seasons, including the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary. When he traveled to El Salvador following the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation in May, he also conducted the first interview with then-Attorney General William Barr. In 2021, Fox News announced a new weekday programming lineup that would reintroduce Hemmer to America’s Newsroom alongside co-anchor Dana Perino.
On election nights, his “BillBoard” is designed to bring data to viewers, capturing votes in real-time from precincts across the country. Hemmer was the network’s lead reporter and anchor during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, as well as the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Hemmer traveled to Helsinki, Finland, in July 2018 to report on President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2019, Hemmer reported from Hanoi, Vietnam, on President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-nuclear un’s summit in February, before wrapping up the assignment at the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in South Korea.