35 Facts About Sharyl Attkisson

Sharyl Attkisson was born on 1961 and is an American journalist and television correspondent.

Sharyl Attkisson was formerly an investigative correspondent in the Washington bureau for CBS News and a substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News and then went to The Daily Signal, a conservative political news website.

Sharyl Attkisson later wrote the book Stonewalled, in which she alleged that CBS News failed to give sufficient coverage of Barack Obama controversies, such as the 2012 Benghazi attack.

Sharyl Attkisson has received criticism for publishing stories suggesting a possible link between vaccines and autism, a claim that has been rejected by the scientific community.

Sharyl Attkisson, nee Thompson, was born in Sarasota, Florida, into a family of seven children.

Sharyl Attkisson's father was a lawyer, but she spent most of her life with her stepfather, an orthopedic surgeon.

Sharyl Attkisson attended the University of Florida, graduating in 1982 with a degree in broadcast journalism from the College of Journalism and Communications.

Sharyl Attkisson began her career in broadcast journalism as a reporter at WUFT-TV, the PBS station in Gainesville, Florida in 1982.

From 1990 to 1993, Sharyl Attkisson was an anchor for CNN, and served as a key anchor for CBS covering space exploration in 1993.

Sharyl Attkisson left CNN in 1993, moving to CBS, where she anchored the television news broadcast CBS News Up to the Minute until January 1995, then became an investigative correspondent based in Washington, DC.

Sharyl Attkisson served on the University of Florida's Journalism College Advisory Board and was its chair in 1996.

From 1996 to 2001, Sharyl Attkisson hosted the PBS health-news magazine HealthWeek.

In 2001, Sharyl Attkisson received an Investigative Emmy Award nomination for Firestone Tire Fiasco from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

In 2006, Sharyl Attkisson served as Capitol Hill correspondent for CBS, one of a small number of female anchors covering the 2006 midterms.

Sharyl Attkisson was on the trip with her and refuted Clinton's account; the trip to Bosnia was risky, Sharyl Attkisson said, but there were no bullets to dodge.

In 2009, Sharyl Attkisson won an Investigative Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting for her exclusive reports on the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the bank bailout.

In 2010, Sharyl Attkisson was nominated for two Emmy Awards for investigations into members of Congress and waste of tax dollars.

In July 2011, Sharyl Attkisson was again nominated, for Follow the Money investigations into Congressional travel to the Copenhagen climate summit, and problems with aid to Haiti earthquake victims.

In 2012, CBS News accepted an Investigative Reporting Award given to Sharyl Attkisson's reporting on ATF's Fast and Furious gunwalker controversy from Accuracy in Media, a conservative news media watchdog group.

On March 10,2014, Sharyl Attkisson resigned from CBS News in what she stated was an "amicable" parting.

Sharyl Attkisson's book Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington was published by Harper later in 2014 and became a New York Times best seller.

In 2017, Sharyl Attkisson created a media bias chart that was reused by right-wing blog PJ Media and characterized as "a bastardization" of that produced by Ad Fontes Media.

BuzzFeed News reported in August 2018 that Sharyl Attkisson indicated on her website that she compiled the "subjective" chart "from various sources and your feedback".

Sharyl Attkisson has published stories attempting to link vaccines with autism, a position rejected by the scientific community.

Snopes said that Sharyl Attkisson falsely claimed that the Omnibus Autism Proceeding, which refuted claims of a causal link between vaccines and autism, was based primarily on Zimmerman's testimony, and that Zimmerman's nuanced views on the subject were kept hidden from the public by the federal government until 2018.

In May 2013, while still employed by CBS, Sharyl Attkisson alleged that her personal and work computers had been "compromised" for more than two years.

In late January 2015, Sharyl Attkisson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee during a confirmation hearing for Loretta Lynch, President Obama's nominee to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder.

Sharyl Attkisson appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2019, which affirmed the lower court's dismissal of the case.

Judge Wynn found it plausible that "Sharyl Attkisson never got a meaningful opportunity to pursue her claims".

In January 2020, Sharyl Attkisson renewed her efforts, filing a complaint at federal courts in Baltimore, Maryland and Alexandria, Virginia alleging that the Obama administration had spied upon her and her family.

Sharyl Attkisson said in the Maryland deposition: "The plaintiffs first acquired the details regarding key individuals involved in the surveillance in August 2019 from a person involved in the wrongdoing who has come forward to provide information".

In May 2020, Sharyl Attkisson returned to this issue and said "I would say I may not be one of the first victims, but I am one of the first people who was able to identify myself as a target of illegal spying under the Obama administration".

Sharyl Attkisson's lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge in 2021, who ruled that Rosenstein was protected by qualified immunity and that, even if true, none of the allegations took place in Maryland, where the court has jurisdiction.

In 1984 Sharyl Attkisson married James Sharyl Attkisson, a sheriff's deputy, and with him has one daughter.

Sharyl Attkisson is a fifth-degree black belt master in tae kwon do.