Who is Bill Hemmer? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with William Ronald Hemmer, Mary Knittle Hemmer, CNN and the early life and education of a journalist, producer, writer, and television news anchor from the United States.
Bill Hemmer, born William George Hemmer, is a journalist, producer, writer, and television news anchor from the United States.
Hemmer currently co-anchors FOX News Channel’s (FNC) America’s Newsroom (weekdays, 9-11 AM/ET) with Dana Perino in New York City.
He previously worked at CNN as an anchor and correspondent, co-hosting “American Morning” and anchoring “CNN Live Today” and “CNN Tonight.”
Bill Hemmer’s Net Worth
As of 2023, Forbes estimates Bill Hemmer’s net worth to be $14 million.
Hemmer is paid $6 million per year by Fox News, making him one of the highest-paid journalists in the United States.
Hemmer owns two homes: an Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan that he purchased in 2019 for $3.5 million and a Hamptons home that he purchased in 2016 for $6.5 million.
He also owns a 1,000-acre ranch in Wyoming, which he paid $3 million for in 2018.
Hemmer owns a variety of properties across the United States in addition to his homes and ranch.
He owns a $2 million development lot in Los Angeles, which he purchased in 2017 and a ranch in Montana, which he purchased for $1 million in 2019.
Early Life and Education
William George Hemmer (Bill Hemmer) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA on November 14, 1964. In a family of five children, he is the middle child and the second son.
He is the son of retired mattress manufacturing executive William Ronald Hemmer and homemaker and retired teacher Georganne Mary Knittle Hemmer.
After attending Our Lady of Victory Catholic parochial school, Hemmer completed his high school at Elder High School in Cincinnati in 1983.
He and a friend started a radio show during his senior year, playing fifteen minutes of music before classes began. He attributes his interest in broadcasting to this period.
Hemmer earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1987.
He was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity at Miami University and studied in Europe at the Miami University Dolibois European Centre, which was then located in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Hemmer is a devout Roman Catholic who supports Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
In 2005, he began dating model Dara Tomanovich. They parted ways in 2013. Hemmer is currently single with no children.
He returns to Cincinnati each year to host the George Knittle Memorial Bayley Place Golf Classic, named after his grandfather, George Francis Knittle, and benefiting Bayley Senior Living.
Career and Professional Work Experience
In the mid-1980s, Bill Hemmer began his career in sports production at WLWT-TV, where he discovered his love of live television.
During his senior year at Miami University, Hemmer was hired as a sports producer at WLWT-TV.
Soon after, he was hired as a sports reporter and anchor at CBS affiliate WCPO-TV.
Hemmer left WCPO-TV at the age of twenty-six to backpack around the world for nearly a year.
He visited New Zealand, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Nepal, India, Egypt, Israel, and Russia, among other places.
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 assembled into several pieces known as “Bill’s Excellent Adventure.”
He won two regional Emmys for the show: Best Entertainment Programme and Best Host.
Hemmer returned to WCPO after a one-year hiatus to become a local reporter. He again won a local Emmy Award for best investigative story.
CNN Career
Hemmer joined CNN in 1995 and stayed for ten years, until 2005. He co-anchored a number of CNN shows, including American Morning (first with Paula Zahn, then with Soledad O’Brien), CNN Tonight, CNN Early Edition, CNN Morning News, and CNN Live Today with Daryn Kagan.
During the 2000 election, Hemmer was one of the first national reporters to arrive in Tallahassee, FL, where he stayed for 37 days until the United States Supreme Court ruled in favour of Governor George W Bush.
Hemmer gained national attention and was dubbed “The Chad Lad” for his nonstop reporting.
Hemmer was instrumental in the network’s coverage of Timothy McVeigh’s execution in May 2001, reporting from Terre Haute, Indiana.
He reported for a month from the World Trade Centre site in New York City in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and from Kandahar, Afghanistan during the early days of the War on Terror.
Hemmer reported live from Somerset, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2002, on a mining accident that trapped nine workers for 77 hours after a wall separating their tunnel from an abandoned flooded mine caved in.
Hemmer travelled to Kuwait in 2003 to report on escalating tensions in Iraq and stayed to cover Operation Iraqi Freedom when the war began.
He also spent more than a month covering the Kosovo crisis, reporting from Aviano Air Base in Italy on aerial bombing missions, the refugee crisis from Skopje, Macedonia, and the latest NATO developments from Brussels.
In 2005, Hemmer left CNN.
Fox News Channel Career
Bill Hemmer joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in August 2005. Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana shortly after Hemmer arrived at FNC, and he spent time covering the aftermath for Fox.
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 the 2008, 2012, and 2016 election seasons, including the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary.
From the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, to the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013, Hemmer was the network’s lead reporter and anchor.
He renewed his contract with FNC in 2014. Hemmer started co-hosting FNC’s “America’s Newsroom” with Martha MacCallum as the founding anchor in July 2015.
He also moderated the Republican presidential candidate forum in Cleveland on August 6, 2015, alongside Martha MacCallum.
In 2016, he covered the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris from France and provided live coverage of Pope Francis’ first visit to the United States from various locations in New York City and Philadelphia.
Hemmer travelled to Helsinki, Finland, in July 2018 to report on President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Hemmer covered the February nuclear summit between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un from Hanoi, Vietnam, and finished the assignment at the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ).
In 2020, he was the host of Bill Hemmer Reports, a weekday afternoon newscast, as well as the Chief Anchor for breaking news and other major live events.
Hemmer also co-moderated a town hall with then-President Donald Trump and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in March 2020.
Fox News announced a new weekday programming lineup in 2021, with Hemmer returning to America’s Newsroom with co-anchor Dana Perino.
Bill Hemmer has served as a regular stand-in host for Fox News Sunday, the network’s flagship weekend interview show. He hosts the podcast “Hemmer Time,” which examines various issues, topics, and technological changes.
Achievements and Awards
Bill Hemmer has won numerous journalism awards, including the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Emmy Award, and the Peabody Award. He was named one of the “50 Most Influential People in News” by The Hollywood Reporter.
As one of the network’s lead breaking news anchors, Hemmer has provided extensive live coverage of several major stories over the course of his more than 15 years with the network, including every election cycle since joining.
He covered the presidential elections of 2008 and 2012, interviewing presidential candidates Barack Obama in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012.
Hemmer, along with two other Miami University graduates, established the MUDEC scholarship in honour of Dr. Emile Haag’s long-term service to the Miami University Dolibois European Centre, which is awarded to a student seeking financial assistance to attend school in Luxembourg.
In 2013, Hemmer was also awarded the Elder High School Professional Distinction Award.
Bill Hemmer is a producer and writer and has worked on productions such as Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), America’s Newsroom (2007), and Bill Hemmer Reports (2020).
Controversies
Bill Hemmer left CNN in 2005 after executives informed him that he would be promoted to senior White House correspondent. He expressed concern that the new position as White House correspondent would be a demotion.
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