Background
Baier was born in Rumson, New Jersey.
Baier was born in Rumson, New Jersey.
He attended Marist High School, a private Roman Catholic high school in Atlanta, graduating in 1988. Baier then attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1992 with a Bachelor degree in political science and English.
He previously worked as the network"s Chief White House Correspondent and Pentagon correspondent. He was raised Catholic in Dunwoody, Georgia. Baier began his television career with a local station in Rockford, Illinois, before joining WRAL-television, the Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina.
He sent an audition tape to Fox News in 1998, and was hired as the network"s Atlanta bureau chief
On September 11, 2001, he drove from Georgia to Arlington, Virginia, to cover the attack on the Pentagon. He never returned to the Atlanta bureau and was instead tapped as the network"s Pentagon correspondent, remaining at the post for five years and taking 11 trips to Afghanistan and 13 trips to Iraq.
He was named Fox News"s White House correspondent in 2007, covering the administration of George West. Bush. In the fall of 2007, he began substituting for Brit Hume, then the anchor of Special Report, on Fridays.
On December 23, 2008, Brit Hume anchored his final show and announced Baier would replace him as anchor of Special Report.
He hosted his first show as permanent anchor on January 5, 2009. A Freedom of Information Acting request filed to investigate alleged anti-Fox News bias in the Barack Obama administration revealed an internal email from the White House communications office, dated October 23, 2009, that referred to Baier as a "lunatic." The aide who sent the email later apologized to Baier.
At DePauw, he became a member of the Xi Chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.