FOX News Channel Names Benjamin Hall State Department Correspondent and Elevates Rich Edson to Senior National Correspondent
November 03 2021 - 3:42PM
Business Wire
Alex Hogan Named London
Correspondent
FOX News Channel (FNC) has named Benjamin Hall State Department
correspondent while elevating Rich Edson to senior national
correspondent, announced Bryan Boughton, FNC’s senior vice
president and Washington bureau chief. Previously a foreign affairs
correspondent for the network, Hall will relocate to Washington,
D.C. from London, England to cover the international and domestic
issues surrounding the U.S. Department of State effective
immediately. Edson, who has been serving as the network’s State
Department correspondent since 2017, will now cover politics,
border issues and national breaking news in this new capacity.
Additionally, Alex Hogan will transition to a new role of London
correspondent, replacing Hall overseas after being based in New
York for nearly two years.
Since joining the network in 2015, Hall has served as FNC’s
foreign affairs correspondent based in London where he covered
international news for the network. Most recently, he reported from
Kabul, Afghanistan surrounding the United States’ preparations
ahead of their August exit from the country. Throughout his tenure
with the network, he has covered several international breaking
news events, including terror attacks in Paris, Brussels, Munich
and Istanbul, the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal
Khashoggi, and the summit in Singapore between then-President
Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. He also covered
President Biden’s first overseas trip to Europe and then-President
Trump’s first overseas trip to Saudi Arabia. Additionally, he has
interviewed several presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers,
U.S. commanders as well as ISIS prisoners. Prior to joining FNC,
Hall worked as a war correspondent in the Middle East and Africa,
reporting for a number of news organizations, including the New
York Times, The Sunday Times, BBC, The London Times and Agence
France-Presse. A graduate of Richmond American University in
London, Hall is also the author of the 2015 book, “Inside ISIS: The
Brutal Rise of a Terrorist Army.”
As FNC’s State Department correspondent, Edson covered foreign
policy, which included news-breaking interviews with Secretaries of
State, as well as the 2018 United States and North Korea summit in
Singapore, the COVID-19 pandemic and tensions with China. He joined
FNC in 2015 from FOX Business Network (FBN) where he served as a
Washington based correspondent from the network’s inception in
2007. In this capacity, he reported on the 2008 financial crisis,
the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the U.S. auto bailout and
the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, among numerous other stories on the
intersection of Washington and Wall Street. Additionally, during
his 14-year tenure across FOX News Media, he has provided insights
for every major election, most recently during last night’s
Virginia gubernatorial race and most notably the 2020 presidential
election. Before joining FBN, Edson covered city and county
governments for WJCL-TV (ABC) in Savannah, Georgia. He got his
start in the industry at NBC where he served as an intern for
Saturday Night Live. Edson is a graduate of Rutgers University and
Columbia Journalism School.
Alex Hogan joined FNC in January 2020 as a general assignment
reporter and quickly began covering the pandemic from New York
City, one of the hardest hit places in the country. She later
reported on the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020
and covered the immigration crisis from the Texas border with three
separate trips there earlier this year. Prior to FNC, she was the
morning news reporter and substitute anchor for independent
television station WFMZ-TV in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In this
capacity, Hogan covered various breaking news stories, including
the trial of Bill Cosby, the 2017 Cosmo Dinardo murders and the
2018 Allentown car bombing. Previously, Hogan worked as a general
assignment reporter for CBS affiliate WTAJ-TV covering the Altoona,
State College and Johnston, Pennsylvania areas.
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news
service delivering breaking news as well as political and business
news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been the most
watched television news channel for nearly 20 consecutive years.
According to a 2021 Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index
report, FOX News leads the news industry in both brand loyalty,
engagement and expectations. A 2019 Suffolk University poll also
named FOX News as the most trusted source for television news or
commentary, while a 2019 Brand Keys Emotion Engagement Analysis
survey found that FOX News was the most trusted cable news brand.
Owned by FOX Corp, FNC is available in 80 million homes and
dominates the cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten
programs in the genre.
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