Eric Burns
For 10 years, Eric Burns was the host of Fox News Watch, the most watched-media review program in TV history.
Prior to that he had been a commentator on Entertainment Tonight, the host of Arts and Entertainment Revue on the A&E cable network, and, most notably, a correspondent for NBC News, based in New York and Chicago with occasional overseas postings. He was also the frequent anchorman of NBC News Update. While working for NBC, he was named one of the best writers in the history of broadcast journalism by the American Journalism Review, where he joined such company as Edward R. Murrow, Eric Severeid, David Brinkley, Charles Kuralt and Harry Reasoner.
Burns is also an award-winning historian, having written The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol and The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco, both of which were named best academic press books of the year by the American Library Association. His most recent books are the highly-reviewed Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism and Virtue, Valor and Vanity: The Founding Fathers and the Pursuit of Fame.
Burns lives with his wife, former NBC News correspondent Dianne Wildman, and their daughter Cailin in Westport, Connecticut. An older son, Toby, drops by often.
