FOX News Channel Promotes Chad Pergram to Congressional Correspondent
January 14 2020 - 11:59AM
Business Wire
FOX News Channel (FNC) has elevated senior Capitol Hill producer
Chad Pergram to congressional correspondent, announced Bryan
Boughton, senior vice president and Washington bureau chief for the
network. Effective immediately, Pergram will provide live reports
across all FNC programs and platforms, delivering viewers the
latest from policymakers in Washington.
In commenting on the announcement, Boughton said, “Chad’s
enterprise reporting skills and deep sources throughout the halls
of Congress have made him a tremendous asset to our news division.
As we enter another election year, we look forward to his continued
contributions, delivering key insights during this critical time on
Capitol Hill.”
Pergram added, “It’s been an honor to work with some of the best
journalists in the business here at FOX for more than 12 years. So
many important stories emanate from Capitol Hill. There is nothing
more rewarding than breaking down complex Congressional stories for
our millions of viewers. 2020 is already shaping up to be an
unprecedented news year in Congress. I am thrilled to take on this
new role, providing live, behind-the-scenes reporting on the latest
developments across all our FOX News platforms.”
Throughout his tenure at FNC, Pergram has covered a range of
historical moments from Capitol Hill, including the 2010 and 2018
midterm elections, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Neil
Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings, the 2016 presidential election
cycle, and various legislative hallmarks and showdowns, including
the 2010 passage of both the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank
Wall Street reform, the 2011 debt-ceiling fight, tax reform in
2017, as well as the 2018-2019 government shutdown, the longest in
U.S. history.
In 2017, just blocks from Pergram’s residence in Alexandria,
Virginia, a gunman opened fire at a baseball practice for
Republican members of Congress ahead of the annual Congressional
game, critically wounding then-House Majority Whip Rep. Steve
Scalise (R-LA) and injuring several others. Pergram led the
breaking news coverage and followed the story throughout Scalise’s
recovery. The tragedy marked one of the most consequential events
Pergram has covered during his tenure on Capitol Hill.
Most recently, Pergram was a staple of FNC’s impeachment
coverage in the House of Representatives, breaking down the
procedural elements and providing timely analysis. According to
Nielsen Media Research, FNC’s special coverage of the impeachment
hearings outpaced all of broadcast and cable news coverage.
Prior to joining FNC in September 2007, Pergram served as a
reporter for Capitol News Connection. Additionally, he produced and
anchored newscasts for NPR in Washington and served as a Senate
producer for C-SPAN. He began his career as a reporter at WKRC-AM
in Cincinnati and WKRC-TV, the ABC affiliate at the time, before
joining the Cincinnati Public Radio-operated WMUB-FM in Oxford, OH.
In 1992, he was named Best Radio Reporter by the Ohio Associated
Press.
A native of Jacksonburg, OH, Pergram earned a both a bachelor's
degree in political science and a master’s degree in communication
from Miami University (Ohio). He won a regional Edward R. Murrow
Award for excellence in reporting for his coverage of outgoing
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) in 2007 and was the youngest
recipient of the Joan S. Barone Award for Excellence in National
Affairs/Public Policy Broadcast in 2006 from the Radio/Television
Correspondents Association for his Washington-based broadcasts.
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news
service delivering breaking news as well as political and business
news. The number one network in cable, FNC is a unit of FOX News
Media and has been the most watched television news channel for
more than 17 consecutive years. According to a 2019 Suffolk
University poll, FOX News is the most trusted source for television
news or commentary in the country, while a 2019 Brand Keys Emotion
Engagement Brand Analysis survey found that FOX News was the most
trusted cable news brand. A 2019 Morning Consult poll reported FOX
News as the most-watched cable channel among independents in the
county. Owned by FOX Corporation, FNC is available in nearly 90
million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely
notching the top ten programs in the genre.
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