Sharyl Attkisson Biography

The Sarasota, Florida native Sharyl Attkisson is an author and host of Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson. Formerly, Attkisson was an investigative correspondent in the Washington bureau for CBS News. Attkisson had also worked as a substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News.

On March 10, 2014, she resigned from CBS News, after 21 years with the network. Attkisson subsequently authored the book Stonewalled, in which she alleged that CBS News failed to give sufficient coverage of Obama controversies, like the 2012 Benghazi attack.

Sharyl Attkisson Age

Sharyl Lynn Thompson was born on 26 January 1961 in Sarasota, Florida, U.S.

Sharyl Attkisson Body Measurements

• Height: 1,79 m.
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• Hair Colour: Blonde.

Sharyl Attkisson Full Measure

Attkisson is the host of  Full Measure, an American Sunday morning political affairs and investigative news magazine series hosted. The Sinclair Television Group, produces broadcasts, and syndicates the programme.

Sharyl Attkisson The Smear

Attkisson is the author of Smear, a book about how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? She pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power use to influence your opinions.

Sharyl Attkisson Net Worth

Attkisson has a net worth of $800 thousand. Her career as an author and host are the primary sources of her income. Details about her salary are not known, this information will be updated as soon as its available.

Sharyl Attkisson Family

Born in 1961 in Sarasota, Florida, Attkisson has a step-father who is an orthopedic surgeon and her brother is an emergency room physician.

Sharyl Attkisson Husband

Sharyl  is a married woman to her lovely husband James Attkisson. The couple has one child and lives in Leesburg, Virginia, United States.

Full Measure With Sharyl Attkisson

Although it’s a news show that airs on Sunday mornings, “Full Measure” is not formatted like the long-running Sunday morning shows that air on the broadcast networks that consist of interviews and panel discussions. Instead, Sharyl Attkisson the host fronts a newsmagazine-style program that features long-form reports from her and a team of correspondents. The investigative pieces cover a range of political and socioeconomic topics that include wasteful spending by the government and corporate fraud.

Sharyl Attkisson Education

Attkisson is a graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in broadcast journalism in 1982.

Sharyl Attkisson Career

Attkisson started her broadcast journalism career in 1982 as a reporter at WUFT-TV, the PBS station in Gainesville, Florida. Later, she worked as an anchor and reporter at WTVX-TV Fort Pierce/West Palm Beach, Florida from 1982 to 1985, WBNS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Columbus, Ohio from 1985 to 86 and WTVT in Tampa, Florida from 1986 to 1990.

Attkisson was an anchor for CNN from 1990–TO 993 and also served as a key anchor for CBS space exploration coverage in 1993. In 1993, Attkisson parted ways with CNN and moved to CBS to work as a television anchor news broadcast CBS News Up to the Minute and became an investigative correspondent based in Washington, D.C.

Attkisson served on the University of Florida’s Journalism College Advisory Board from 1993 to 1997 and was its chair in 1996. In 1997, the University gave her an Outstanding Achievement Award. Attkisson simultaneously hosted CBS News Up from 1997 to 2003, to the Minute and the PBS health-news magazine HealthWeek.

2000s

Attkisson is  a 2000 Investigative Reporters and Editors (I.R.E.) Finalist award recipient for Dangerous Drugs. She received an Investigative Emmy Award nomination in 2001 for Firestone Tire Fiasco from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Attkisson co-authored a college textbook in 2002, Writing Right for Broadcast and Internet News. That same year Attkisson won an Emmy Award for her Investigative Journalism about the American Red Cross. On September 10, 2002, the award was presented in New York City. She was part of the CBS News team that received RTNDA-Edward R. Murrow Awards for Overall Excellence in the year 2005.

Attkisson served as Capitol Hill correspondent for CBS in 2006, as one of a small number of female anchors covering the 2006 midterms. She was part of the CBS News team that received RTNDA-Edward R. Murrow Awards due to her Overall Excellence in 2008.

Attkisson reported in 2008 that a claim by Hillary Clinton to have dodged sniper fire in Bosnia was unfounded. Attkisson said, that Clinton’s trip to Bosnia was risky but no real bullets were dodged. She was on the trip with Clinton. The day after Attkisson’s report on the CBS Evening News, Clinton admitted there was no sniper fire and stated that she “misspoke.” Attkisson won an Investigative Emmy Award in 2009 for Business and Financial Reporting for Attkisson’s exclusive reports on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and the bank bailout.

2010s

In 2010, Attkisson returned to the University of Florida as a keynote speaker at the College of Journalism and Communications. That same year, Attkisson received an Emmy Award nomination for her investigations into members of Congress and Attkisson also received a Emmy Award nomination in 2010 for her investigation into waste of tax dollars. Attkisson was nominated for an Emmy Award in July 2011 due to her Follow the Money investigations into Congressional travel to the Copenhagen climate summit and problems with aid to Haiti earthquake victims.

CBS News accepted an Investigative Reporting Award given to Attkisson’s reporting in 2012 on ATF’s Fast and Furious gunwalker controversy. The award was from Accuracy in Media, a conservative news media watchdog group and was presented at a Conservative Political Action Conference.

In June 2012, her investigative reporting for the Gunwalker story also won the CBS Evening News the Radio and Television News Directors Association’s National Edward R. Murrow Award due to her Excellence work in Video Investigative Reporting. Attkisson’s Gunwalker: Fast and Furious reporting received an Emmy Award in July 2012.

Attkisson resigned from CBS News on March 10, 2014, in what she stated was an “amicable” parting. According to Politico reports within CBS there had been tensions leading to “months of hard-fought negotiations” – that Attkisson had been frustrated by network over what she described as the network’s liberal bias and lack of dedication to investigative reporting as well as issues she had with the network’s corporate partners, while some colleagues within the network saw Attkisson reporting as agenda-driven and doubted her impartiality.

Later that year, Attkisson’s book Stonewalled: One Reporter’s Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation and Harassment in Obama’s Washington (Harpers) was published. In this work, Attkisson accused CBS of protecting the Obama administration by not giving enough coverage to such stories like the Benghazi attack in 2012 and slow initial enrollments under Obamacare.

Attkisson’s second book, The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote, was published in summer 2017 by HarperCollins.

Attkisson created a media bias chart in 2017. As per the PolitiFact, this chart “labels anything not overtly conservative as “left”.” The news outlets with a purported left bias include the Associated Press, Reuters, CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, USA Today and CNBC.

Sharyl Attkisson Books

• The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote- Published in 2017
• Writing Right for Broadcast and Internet News published in 2002
• Stonewalled published in 2014

Frequently Asked Questions About Sharyl Attkisson

Who is Sharyl Attkisson?

The Sarasota, Florida native Sharyl Attkisson is an author and host of Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson. Formerly, Attkisson was an investigative correspondent in the Washington bureau for CBS News. Attkisson had also worked as a substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News.

How old is Sharyl Attkisson?

Attkisson is 58 years old as of 2019, born on on 26 January 1961.

How tall is Attkisson?

Attkisson  stands at a height of 1,79 m.

Is Attkisson married?

Sharyl  is a married woman to her lovely husband James Attkisson. The couple has one child and lives in Leesburg, Virginia, United States.

How much is Attkisson worth?

Attkisson has a net worth of $800 thousand. Her career as an author and host are the primary sources of her income.

How much does Attkisson make?

Not Known.

Where does Attkisson live?

Not Known

Is Attkisson dead or alive?

Attkisson is still alive and in good health.