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In
1986, Bill O'Reilly joined ABC News as a correspondent on The
World News Tonight. During his three year tenure, he appeared
on the show more than one hundred times and two National
Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting.
O'Reilly's career changed in 1989 when he joined the
nationally syndicated Inside Edition as senior
correspondent and backup anchor. Within three weeks, he took
over the anchor chair from David Frost. During his six years
at Inside Edition, the show was one of the
highest-rated "infotainment" programs in America.
In
1995, O'Reilly left to enroll in the John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University where he received a Master's
Degree in Public Administration. Upon leaving Harvard, Roger
Ailes, chairman and CEO of the then startup FOX News Channel,
hired O'Reilly to anchor The O'Reilly Factor.
Bill
O'Reilly has risen to become "the new pope of TV
Journalism" according to television critic Marvin Kitman.
In 2000, The Factor (as O'Reilly refers to it) passed
Larry King Live to become the number one cable news
program in the United States. Both of O'Reilly's non-fiction
books, The O'Reilly Factor, and The No Spin Zone
have each reached number one on The New York Times
bestseller list. His novel Those Who Trespass has
been optioned for the screen by Mel Gibson's Icon Productions.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155,00.html
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