Sharyl Attkisson

Sharyl Attkisson
Attkisson in 2014
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Sarasota, Florida, U.S.
Education
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist, television correspondent
SpouseJames Attkisson (m. 1984)
Children1
Websitesharylattkisson.com
fullmeasure.news

Sharyl Attkisson (born 1961) is an American journalist and television correspondent.[1][2] She hosts the Sinclair Broadcast Group TV show Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.[3]

Attkisson is a five-time Emmy Award winner, and a Radio Television Digital News Association (RTNDA) Edward R. Murrow Award recipient. She was formerly an investigative correspondent in the Washington bureau for CBS News and a substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News and then went to The Daily Signal, a news feed from The Heritage Foundation, a think tank.[4]

Attkisson resigned from CBS News in 2014, after 21 years with the network. She later wrote the book Stonewalled, in which she alleged that CBS News failed to give sufficient coverage of Barack Obama controversies, such as the 2012 Benghazi attack.[5] Attkisson has received criticism for publishing stories suggesting a possible link between vaccines and autism,[6][7][8] a claim that has been rejected by the scientific community.[9]

  1. ^ Ecarma, Caleb (April 10, 2020). "An Ex-New York Times Reporter Has Become the Right's Go-To Coronavirus Skeptic". Vanity Fair. Retrieved January 13, 2021. Sharyl Attkisson, a former CBS News reporter, became a right-wing staple and Fox News regular following her 2014 exit from CBS and has since promoted conspiracies on vaccines causing autism.
  2. ^ Byers, Dylan. "The right loses its hero at CBS". POLITICO. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
  3. ^ Erik Wemple (April 22, 2015). "Sinclair Broadcast Group to launch Sunday show hosted by Sharyl Attkisson". The Washington Post. Nash Holdings LLC. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  4. ^ Beutler, Brian (June 25, 2014). "Conservatives Are Still Trying to Unskew Obamacare Numbers". The New Republic.
  5. ^ "NYT Best Seller List". The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
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  9. ^ Kata, Anna (May 28, 2012). "Anti-vaccine activists, Web 2.0, and the postmodern paradigm – An overview of tactics and tropes used online by the anti-vaccination movement". Vaccine. 30 (25): 3778–3779. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.11.112. PMID 22172504. S2CID 38720733.