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Bret to succeed Brit on Fox

Fox News has chosen Bret Baier, chief White House correspondent, to succeed Brit Hume as primary anchor of “Special Report,” the Washington bureau’s signature nightly newscast.

Hume’s farewell program is Tuesday night, but he will continue at Fox News as a senior political analyst in what what the network calls “a Brokaw-like capacity,” working 100 days a year.

Here is Baier’s Fox bio:

Bret Baier is the chief White House correspondent for FOX News Channel. In this capacity Baier reports on presidential activities on a national and international level.

Prior to being named chief White House correspondent, Baier served as a national security correspondent and reported on military and national security affairs, as well as on defense, military policy and the intelligence community from the Pentagon. Throughout his career, he has secured numerous exclusive interviews with government officials, including interviews with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace, among others.

In September of 2008, Baier had an exclusive interview with General Patraeus live from Iraq, in Patraeus’ final interview from the region. Baier also reported from the Democratic National Convention where he interviewed Governor Bill Ritter, D-Colo., and the Republican National Convention.

In 2008 he hosted a one hour special on President Bush including exclusive behind the scenes interviews with the President aboard Air Force one, inside the Oval Office and at the Bush residence in Crawford, Texas. In 2007 he had an exclusive sit-down with Vice President Cheney while traveling in Iraq. In 2004 Baier hosted an exclusive special on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He also has provided up-to-the-minute news coverage of the war in Iraq, reporting live from Iraq on 13 separate occasions since 2003. Baier has also covered the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan, live from the region 11 times since the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Baier reported on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States and then followed the evolution of the attacks into the war on terror. Previously, he reported on the U.S. military mission in Haiti and on the 1999 conflict in Kosovo.

He joined FNC in 1998 as the first reporter to be based in the Atlanta bureau. As the network’s southeast correspondent, Baier covered stories ranging from the 2001 Timothy McVeigh execution to the 1999 Elian Gonzalez story. He also provided a series of reports on Cuba and covered more than a dozen hurricanes, including stories filed from the centers of the storms.

Prior to joining FNC, Baier worked for WRAL-TV (CBS) in Raleigh, NC, WREX-TV (NBC) in Rockford, IL, and WJWJ-TV (PBS) in Beaufort, SC. He began his career as a production assistant at CNN.

Baier has received several honors for his work, including the South Carolina Associated Press Award for Superior Television Journalism.

A graduate of DePauw University, Baier has a bachelor’s degree in political science and English.