Former Fox News anchor Shepard Smith is joining CNBC as a prime-time anchor, the network announces Wednesday.
“We aim to deliver a nightly program that, in some small way, looks for the signal in all the noise," he said."We’re thrilled that Shep, who’s built a career on an honest fight to find and report the facts, will continue his pursuit of the truth at CNBC.”Smith is the first big talent hire following NBCUniversal's move to reunite its three news brands — NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC — under the direction of one leader, NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde.
Smith joined Fox News shortly after its launch in 1996. As the network grew more conservative and supportive of President Donald Trump, Smith's willingness to call out misinformation and misleading claims from the administration put him in opposition to the cable news channel's more fervent pro-Trump voices.amid tensions with hosts like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, the network's two most popular prime-time hosts.
Smith also drew fire from Trump, a frequent critic of any cable news outlets that fail to flatter him, including on rare occasions Fox News. “Watching Fake News CNN is better than watching Shepard Smith," the president tweeted in August 2019, two months before Smith left the network. In a statement, Smith said that"gathering and reporting the news has been my life’s work. I am honored to continue to pursue the truth, both for CNBC’s loyal viewers and for those who have been following my reporting for decades in good times and in bad.": A previous version of this article misspelled the first name of the new CNBC anchor. He is Shepard Smith, not Shephard.
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