Shannon Bream to Cover Supreme Court for Fox News

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Friday, November 2, 2007

WRC weekend anchor Shannon Bream is leaving the NBC station at the end of the month to join Fox News Channel, where she'll cover the Supreme Court.

"The good thing about the Fox job is that it allows me to use my background as an attorney," Bream said in an interview yesterday. "So for me that was kind of irresistible, the chance to do that."

Bream replaces Megyn Kelly, who left Washington for New York this year to co-host Fox News Channel's morning show "America's Newsroom" with Bill Hemmer.

"It's been great having Shannon on the team," Vickie Burns, WRC's vice president of news, wrote in a staff memo. "We've enjoyed and appreciated her smarts and warm personality."

Bream, 36, came to WRC (Channel 4) in 2004 as the weekend morning anchor and moved to evening news last year. She will start at the cable news network Nov. 26.

As a Florida lawyer, Bream appeared as a "citizen panelist" on Bill Maher's now-defunct ABC late-night show "Politically Incorrect" in 1999.

Prior to that, Bream was crowned Miss Virginia in 1990 and competed in the 1991 Miss America pageant and the 1995 Miss USA pageant.

-- John Maynard