Chris Wallace (journalist)

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Chris Wallace (2010)

Christopher W. Wallace (born October 12, 1947 in Chicago ) is an American television presenter and political commentator. He works for Fox News and hosts the Fox News Sunday program .

life and career

Wallace's parents divorced when he was one year old. He grew up with his mother and stepfather, former CBS President Bill Leonard. His biological father was noted CBS journalist and news anchor Mike Wallace . Wallace graduated from the private Hotchkiss School and later studied at Harvard College . There he reported for the student radio WHRB, including the occupation of a university building where the local police arrested him. Although he was accepted into Yale Law School, Wallace accepted a position with the Boston Globe . In 1975 Wallace moved to NBC , first in New York City, then in Washington.

From 1982 to 1989 he was a correspondent for reports from the White House . Wallace then hosted the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News and Meet the Press . Wallace joined ABC in 1989 and Fox News in 2003 . According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung in July 2020, the broadcaster, which largely followed the Republican line, was considered to be “to a certain extent the last journalist standing”. His impartial manner and his critical questioning of politicians from both camps, both Republicans and Democrats , make him a welcome presenter of political programs.

An interview with the incumbent US President Donald Trump in July 2020 caused a stir . Wallace was critical of Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic , which had been rampant since the beginning of the year and which at that time had already claimed over 140,000 deaths in the USA would have. He also spoke to Trump about former Vice President Joe Biden , who will run against the Republican in the US election in November . Trump had repeatedly accused Biden of being "senile" and presented an alleged intelligence test as evidence of his own mental performance. Wallace said he did the test himself before the interview and described it as "not the hardest test" as the questions only consisted of recognizing the image of an elephant as an elephant or counting back in steps of seven from one hundred.

Wallace during an interview with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki (2018)

Prizes and awards

Wallace has received three Emmy Awards and the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton Award. Wallace has been with Fox News since 2003 . Prior to that, he hosted Meet the Press on NBC , making him the only one to host more than one of the major Sunday morning political talk shows. In 2018 he received the Freedom of Speech Award from Richard Mellon Scaifes Media Institute .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael D. Murray (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Television News . Oryx Press, Phoenix, Arizona 1999, ISBN 1-57356-108-8 , pp. 273 ( books.google.com ).
  2. ^ Levinson, Arlene (March 15, 1989). "Harvard Alumni Plan Reunion To Mark Shutting Down University in 1969". The Associated Press.
  3. ^ Singer, Jonathan (July 14, 2005). "Son of '60 Minutes' icon makes his own mark at Fox News". The Hill. P. 19.
  4. ↑ Trump got the wrong guy . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 20, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020.
  5. ↑ US reporter contradicts Trump in an interview and is celebrated . In: rp-online.de . July 21, 2020, accessed July 22, 2020.
  6. ↑ The spread of the coronavirus . In: tagesschau.de. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  7. ↑ Chris Wallace grills Trump in an interview . In: CNN.com. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  8. ↑ Donald Trump shows off with a memory test and is scorned and ridiculed. In Frankfurter Rundschau . July 24, 2020, accessed July 26, 2020.
  9. ↑ Tom Bevan: The New Dean of Sunday Mornings . RealClear Politics. September 18, 2015. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wallace, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallace, Christopher W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American television presenter and political commentator
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago