14 Facts About Jon Scott

Jonathan Arthur Scott was born on November 7,1958 and is an American television news anchor who hosts Fox Report Weekend on Fox News.

Also, Scott is the lead anchor for any breaking news each weekend.

Jon Scott longtime co-anchored Happening Now on Fox News until the network expanded America's Newsroom from 2 hours to 3, ending the show in June 2018 after 11 years of being on air.

Jon Scott was the host of Fox News Watch, a program that in September 2013 was replaced by the similar format Media Buzz, which is hosted by Howard Kurtz.

Jon Scott was born in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from Denver Lutheran High School.

Jon Scott began his career as a correspondent for KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri, a station owned and operated by Mizzou.

Jon Scott worked as a reporter and bureau chief for KUSA-TV in Denver.

From 1992 to 1995 Jon Scott was a correspondent for Dateline NBC.

Jon Scott served as the host of A Current Affair and eventually joined the Fox News Channel in 1996.

Jon Scott was training to be an aviation pilot at the time, and studied the Bojinka plot that was a joint cooperation of Ramzi Yusuf with bin Laden that had resulted in one death and ten injured on an airline flight.

Jon Scott was able to trace the timeline of the Bojinka plot and what was happening in the United States at the time, allowing him to call out the potential it was a bin Laden plot.

Jon Scott received an Emmy for news writing for the NBC program Dateline.

Jon Scott is a certificated pilot, rated to fly single- and multi-engine airplanes, and sometimes uses his expertise when covering aviation stories, such as the July 6,2013, crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214.

Jon Scott's older brother was an infantryman in the Vietnam War.