Jon Scott Bio, Age, Height, Education, Family, Marriage, Salary, Fox News

Jon Scott Biography

Jon Scott is an American award-winning journalist, host, speaker, and private pilot, currently working at Fox News Channel as a host for Fox Report Weekend. Before joining FOX News Channel, he also worked as a correspondent for Dateline NBC and news writing. He also reported for Inside Edition.

Jon Scott Age

Scott’s date of birth is on November 7, 1958, thus making him 63 years old in 2021. His birthday celebration is on the 7th of November every year.

Jon Scott Height

Scott stands at an average height of 5 feet, 6 inches, which is Approx. (1.67).

Jon Scott Education

He went to Denver Lutheran High School where he passed with good grades which enables him to be admitted to Missouri University school of journalism.

Jon Scott Family

Jon was born in Denver, Colorado as Jonathan Arthur Scott. Scott is a brother to Becky, and also has an elder brother who participated in the Vietnam war as an Infantryman. Information about his parents is still kept private.

Jon Scott Marriage

He is a husband to Sharon Scott, who is one of the top leaders at NBC News. He is a proud father of four children, two daughters, and two sons. His son Joshua is American military, he also studied at the United States Military Academy. Scott’s lovely daughters are named; Sierra and Savannah. The family of six is currently living together in Irvington, New York.

Jon Scott Salary

Scott’s main source of income is from journalism. In consideration of journalism range of salary, his current earnings are between $ 50k and $ 120k

Jon Scott Net Worth

He has accumulated great wealth over years he had been working. Thus his Net Worth is valued between $ 3 million and $ 6 million.

Jon Scott Fox News

Currently, Scott is working as a host for ‘Fox Report Weekend’ on Fox News. Additionally, he is the senior anchor for any breaking news every weekend. Jon was the co-anchor of “Happening Now” on Fox News before the network was merged to form America’s Newsroom from 2 hours to 3. The show was dismantled in June 2018 after airing for 11 years. He also hosted ‘Fox News Watch’, This program was also substituted with Media Buzz, in September 2013, which is hosted by Howard Kurtz.

Jon Scott Earlier Career

Jon’s career began at KOMU-TV (NBC) in Columbia, Missouri, a network whose owner and the operator was Mizzou, as a correspondent. Later, he was employed as the anchor, co-anchor, and reporter at, weekday evening news, weekend, and WPLG-TV (ABC) in Miami respectively. Then he moved as a reporter and bureau chief for KUSA-TV (NBC) in Denver. In early 1988, he become an anchor for the syndicated news program ‘Inside Edition’.

For three years from 1992 to 1995, he worked as a correspondent for Dateline NBC. He then move on to become the host of A Current Affair before he finally joined the Fox News Channel in 1996. He is a keen follower of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Jon hosted Fox News Live on the September 11 attacks and was the first on-air reporter to share his guess that the perpetrator of the attack might be Osama Bin Laden. In 2011 May 1st and 2nd, he anchored at the studio for Fox News reports about the death of Osama bin Laden.

Jon Scott Other Talents

He becomes the winner of an Emmy for news writing for the NBC program Dateline. Other than being a journalist, Scott is also a frequent honorary speaker of veterans and military service personnel events. He is a private pilot, an active sportsman, and a very bad golfer.

Jon Scott Bio, Age, Height, Education, Family, Marriage, Salary, Net Worth, Talents, and Fox News