In September 2012 while covering live helicopter footage of an Arizona police chase of a man after a carjacking, the man shot himself live while Smith was narrating. On September 12, 2013, he became managing editor of Fox News breaking news division and the host of Shepard Smith Reporting. He renewed his contract with Fox on October 26, 2010, for another three years. On November 19, 2007, Smith signed a three-year contract for $7–$8 million per year. cable news programs, and Smith tied for second with Dan Rather and Peter Jennings as the most-trusted news anchor on both network and cable news. In 2003, The Fox Report with Shepard Smith was ranked third among the top five U.S. At Fox News, Smith reported on the death of Princess Diana in 1997, President Bill Clinton's 1998 impeachment trial, the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, the 2001 execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the death of Michael Jackson in 2009. Fox News Īfter working as a correspondent for Fox affiliate service News Edge, Smith joined Fox News Channel at its inception in 1996. After reporting jobs at WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, WSVN in Miami and WCPX-TV (now WKMG-TV) in Orlando, Smith became a correspondent for A Current Affair. Smith began his career in television with WCJB-TV in Gainesville, Florida, and then with WJHG-TV in Panama City Beach, Florida. Smith delivered the university's 155th commencement address on May 10, 2008. He studied journalism at the University of Mississippi, where he left two credits shy of a degree to take a reporter job in Panama City, Florida. After high school, his parents separated and he moved to Florida with his mother.
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He attended Marshall Academy in Holly Springs.
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Smith was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, the son of Dora Ellen Anderson, an English teacher, and David Shepard Smith Sr., a cotton merchant.