FOX News Anchor Bret Baier was a General Assignment Reporter for WRAL-TV News from 1996 to 1998.
Baier’s broadcast career started in Beaufort, SC, where he worked for WJWJ-TV, the PBS affiliate. From there he moved to WREX-TV, the NBC affiliate in Rockford, IL. In 1996, Baier came to Raleigh to join the WRAL reporting team.
Bret’s WRAL reporting career got off to a memorable start as he spent his first day on the job covering a tornado that hit parts of Eastern Wake County. Bret’s live reporting topped the Channel 5 newscasts that evening and set the tone for what would be a short, but impressive two-year stint covering news in Central North Carolina.
In 1998 Fox News hired Baier as the first reporter in the network’s new Atlanta Bureau. Ever since, Baier has steadily risen through the ranks, covering Washington as the Fox Pentagon correspondent and later as Chief White House correspondent.
In 2009, Baier was promoted to the position of Chief Political Anchor and anchor of the nightly news program “Special Report with Bret Baier.”
To read Bret’s Fox News biography, click here: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/bret-baier/bio/#s=a-d
Baier grew up in Atlanta and is a graduate of DePauw University, where he earned a BA in Political Science and English.
Bret and his wife Amy have two sons.
Former WRAL-TV reporter Bret Baier working the phone in the Raleigh newsroom. Baier now anchors for FOX News.
Former WRAL-TV reporter Bret Baier in his new role as a FOX News anchor.
