{{short description|American journalist}} {{Infobox person | name = Carl Cameron | image = Carl Cameron by Gage Skidmore.jpg | caption = Cameron in September 2011 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|9|22|mf=y}} | birth_place = United States | death_date = | death_place = |spouse= Moira Hopkins | occupation = [[Television personality]], [[journalist]] }}
'''Carl Cameron''' (born September 22, 1961, as Karl Emil Othmar Lamberg-Karlovsky<ref name=NH>[http://65.36.150.71/alumni/cameron.html Carl Cameron] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012110911/http://65.36.150.71/alumni/cameron.html |date=October 12, 2014 }}, Alumni, New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110809203720/http://www.nhab.org/alumni/cameron.html archived] at the [[Wayback Machine]], August 9, 2011.</ref>) is an American journalist and was a reporter for [[Fox News]] for two decades. In 2019 he founded the progressive news aggregator, ''Front Page Live'', where he is chief political correspondent.<ref name=FrontPage>[[Erik Wemple|Wemple, Erik]]. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/24/ex-fox-newser-carl-cameron-takes-his-unfinished-business-progressive-startup "Ex-Fox Newser Carl Cameron takes his 'unfinished business' to progressive startup"], ''The Washington Post'', June 24, 2019; and [https://www.frontpagelive.com/masthead "Masthead"], ''Front Page Live'', accessed June 25, 2019</ref>
==Life and career== As a child Cameron spent time in [[Iran]], where his Jewish father C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, a distinguished member of the Harvard faculty, worked as an archaeologist.<ref name=art>Christopher Ketcham, [https://www.salon.com/2002/05/07/students/ "The Israeli 'art student' mystery"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205060533/http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/05/07/students/index3.html |date=December 5, 2008 }}, ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'', May 7, 2002.</ref> He grew up in [[New Hampshire]] and attended [[Bates College]]. He began his media career in 1985 at radio stations [[WFEA]] and [[WZID]] in [[Manchester, New Hampshire]], first being hired as a salesman at WFEA and breaking into broadcasting when the weather man was sick one day.<ref name=NYT>Jeremy W. Peters, [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/us/politics/carl-cameron-is-a-reporter-whos-part-of-the-story.html?_r=1& "A Reporter Who’s Part of the Story"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 30, 2012.</ref> Later he worked as political director for [[WMUR-TV]], the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate in Manchester.<ref name=NH/>
In 1995, [[Fox News Channel|Fox News]] hired Cameron, and he covered the [[1996 United States presidential election|1996 presidential election]]. He joined Fox News full-time as its first Capitol Hill Correspondent in 1996 and has since covered every presidential election; [[Shepard Smith]] dubbed him "Campaign Carl" and he is often introduced on-air by that nickname.<ref name=NYT/>
After the [[United States elections, 2000|2000 elections]], Fox News named Cameron its first Chief Political Correspondent, and after the [[United States elections, 2004|2004 elections]], he was named its first Chief White House Correspondent. In June 2006, Cameron returned to his job as Chief Political Correspondent to cover the [[United States elections, 2006|2006 midterm elections]] and prepare for the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 presidential campaign]].
Stories he has broken include [[George W. Bush]]'s 1976 [[drunk driving]] arrest,<ref name=NYT/><ref name=rewriting>Eric Boehlert, [http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/07/23/fox_dui/index.html "Rewriting history"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619215552/http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/07/23/fox_dui/index.html |date=June 19, 2006 }}, ''Salon'', July 23, 2004.</ref> as well as [[Israel]]'s involvement in surveillance on US federal officials and agencies such as the [[Drug Enforcement Administration]] leading up to [[9/11]], including inconclusive reports of Israeli foreknowledge of [[al-Qa'ida]] activities prior to the attacks.<ref name=art/>
On August 22, 2017, Cameron announced his retirement from Fox News.<ref>{{cite news|last=Concha|first=Joe|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/347544-foxs-carl-cameron-announces-retirement/|title=Fox's Carl Cameron announces retirement|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date=August 22, 2017|access-date=August 22, 2017}}</ref> In June 2019, he founded the progressive news aggregator, ''Front Page Live'', together with [[Joe Romm]], its Editor-in-Chief, [[Laura Dawn]], [[Sunny Hundal]], [[Helen Stickler]], his wife Moira Hopkins, and others. Cameron is Chief Political Correspondent.<ref name=FrontPage/>
==Reception== [[File:Carl Cameron (29267850222).jpg|thumb|Cameron in August 2016]] As a radio reporter in New Hampshire, Cameron was several times named a top reporter by the state Associated Press Broadcasters Association; both ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' and ''[[The Washington Post]]'' described him as "smart" and "brash".<ref name=NH/> In 2004, Cameron posted a news story on the Fox News website that included fabricated quotes from [[John Kerry]], in which the Senator purportedly called himself a "metrosexual" and Bush a "cowboy". Fox News spokesman Paul Schur later said it was intended to be an internal joke not for publication, and the network apologized for the piece. Cameron was reprimanded.<ref>[[Associated Press]], [https://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-10-02-fox-kerry_x.htm "Fox News pulls reporter's item with fake Kerry quotes"], Campaign 2004, ''[[USA Today]]'', October 2, 2004.</ref><ref>Eric Lichtblau, [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/politics/campaign/03fox.html "Fabricated Kerry Posting Leads to Apology From Fox News"], ''The New York Times'', October 3, 2004.</ref>
In June 2009, ''[[Washingtonian Magazine]]'' named Cameron one of the top 50 journalists in the nation's capital, saying: "[P]layers on both sides of the aisle trust 'Campaign Carl' and know that his reporting is second to none."<ref>Garrett M. Graff, [https://washingtonian.com/2009/06/01/50-top-journalists-2009/ "50 Top Journalists 2009"], ''[[Washingtonian Magazine]]'', June 1, 2009.</ref> A 2012 profile in ''[[The New York Times]]'' described Cameron as a very hard-working journalist often considered "a member of the home team" at Republican campaign events, yet characterized by reporters from rival networks as collegial and unbiased in his reporting.<ref name=NYT/> His "less polished" appearance was said to contrast with that of other Fox reporters; [[NBC News]]' [[Chuck Todd]], an avowed fan of Cameron's, quipped, "[i]t’s nice to see that there are other guys in TV who didn't get there for their looks".<ref name=NYT/>
==Personal life== Cameron is married to Moira Hopkins, a former technician for Fox News who accompanied him on the campaign trail and now works with him as Executive Producer at ''Front Page Live''.<ref name=NYT/><ref name=FrontPage/>
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==External links== * [http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/carl-cameron/bio/#s=a-d Bio on FoxNews.com] * {{IMDb name|1745108}} * {{C-SPAN|25918}}
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