Eric Burns

Eric Burns is an American media critic and journalist. Image File history File links Eric_Burns. ... Image File history File links Eric_Burns. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Burns began his career as a correspondent for NBC News where he appeared regularly on NBC Nightly News and on the Today show. City nickname: The Steel City Location in the state of Pennsylvania Founded 1758 Mayor Tom Murphy (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 151. ... NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. Its current president is Steve Capus. ... NBC Nightly News is the flagship evening news program for NBC News and broadcasts from Studio 3C at the GE Building, Rockefeller Center in New York City. ... Today, commonly referred to as The Today Show to avoid ambiguity, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on the NBC television network. ...

Burns has written five critically-saluted books, including Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism, which was a History Book Club selection in 2006, and continues to work in television. He has worked as a commentator for Entertainment Tonight, host of Arts & Entertainment Revue on A&E, and is currently the host of Fox News Channel's Fox News Watch, as well as a media analyst for the network. The Book of the Month Club (founded 1923) is a mail-order business where consumers are offered a new book each month. ... Entertainment Tonight is a daily television entertainment news magazine that is syndicated by CBS Paramount Domestic Television throughout the United States and Canada. ... Biography is one of A&Es longest-running and most popular programs. ... The Fox News Channel (FNC) is an American cable and satellite news channel. ... Fox News Watch is a current events debate program airing on the Fox News Channel. ...

Awards

• Recipient of an Emmy Award for media criticism
• Was named by the Washington Journalism Review as one of the best writers in the history of broadcast journalism
• The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol was named one of the best academic press books of 2003 by the American Library Association.

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Bibliography

• The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol - 2003
• Broadcast Blues: Dispatches from the Twenty-Year War Between a Television Reporter and His Medium
• The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader - Prometheus Books - 1995
• The Autograph
• Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism. - 2006

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External links

• Eric Burns, Foxnews.com biography
• Eric Burns at the Internet Movie Database
• Eric Burns at TV.com
• Eric Burns, NNDB entry