Eric Burns (journalist)

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Eric Burns

Eric Burns is an American media critic and journalist.

Born and raised in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh suburb, Burns began his career as a correspondent for NBC News where he appeared regularly on NBC Nightly News and on the Today show.

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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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