Mike Schneider

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Mike Schneider is a current anchor for Bloomberg Television.

He was a TV news anchor for ABC's World News This Morning and Good Morning America, where he also served as the regular substitute for host Charles Gibson, and contributed reports to ABC's 20-20 newsmagazine, and ABC News Nightline from 1989 to 1993.

Schneider previously worked as the evening news co-anchor with Ann Bishop at WPLG in Miami, Florida from 1982 until 1986, when he left the station to become weeknight co-anchor for the CBS flagship station in New York, WCBS-TV. While there, he moderated the 1988 New York Presidential debate

Schneider joined NBC News in 1993, when he was co-anchor of Weekend Today with Jackie Nespral from 1993 to 1995 and with Giselle Fernandez in 1995. During that time, he reported for Dateline NBC, was a sub-anchor on NBC Nightly News and Meet the Pres, guest hosted regularly on CNBC's Equal Time program with Mary Matalin, and on the Tom Snyder Show.

He left NBC to become national political correspondent for Fox News, and was one of the 4 founding news anchors at Fox News Channel before leaving the network to join Bloomberg Television.

Schneider's career includes Emmy, Headliner, and Deadline Club awards, along with the highest honor in automotive journalism, the Detroit Press Club's Golden Wheel Award for Bloomberg's coverage of General Motors.

He was born in 1953, and attended Temple University.