Christopher Wallace is an American journalist, and television news anchor of the Fox News program Fox News Sunday. Wallace is known for his tough and wide-ranging interviews, for which he is often compared to his father, 60 Minutes journalist Mike Wallace. He made history when he was chosen to moderate the final 2016 United States presidential debate between Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Wallace has won a Peabody Award, three Emmy Awards, a George Polk Award, the duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award, and a Paul White lifetime achievement award.
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Christopher Wallace is an American journalist, and television news anchor of the Fox News program Fox News Sunday. Wallace is known for his tough and wide-ranging interviews, for which he is often compared to his father, 60 Minutes journalist Mike Wallace. He made history when he was chosen to moderate the final 2016 United States presidential debate between Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Wallace has won a Peabody Award, three Emmy Awards, a George Polk Award, the duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award, and a Paul White lifetime achievement award. According to a 2018 poll, he was ranked as being one of the most trusted TV news anchors in America. Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois, to longtime CBS 60 Minutes reporter Mike Wallace and Norma Kaphan. He was named Christopher because he was born on Columbus Day. He grew up with his mother and stepfather Bill Leonard, President of CBS News. He worked as an assistant to Walter Cronkite at the 1964 Republican National Convention. After graduating from Harvard University, he worked as a national reporter for The Boston Globe where he was described by his boss as an \”aggressive and ambitious reporter\”. Wallace is the only person to have served as host and moderator of more than one major U.S. political Sunday morning talk shows, which he did during his time at NBC. He has gained praise and acclaim for his interviews with politicians such as Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Russian president Vladimir Putin.
In 1988, Wallace covered the 1988 Republican Convention for NBC News where he interviewed various political figures including real estate tycoon Donald Trump. Some journalists have described Wallace’s confrontational style as ‘Wallace-like’ Wallace left NBC in 1989 for ABC News after leaving the network for ABC. He is married to his wife of 20 years, Kelly Wallace, and the couple have two children, a son, a daughter and a son-in-law. The couple have a son and a daughter, both of whom live in New York City, New York and Washington, D.C. They have two grandchildren, a grandson and a great-grandchild. Wallace and his wife, Kelly, have two step-grandchildren, a boy and a girl, respectively, who live in California and New Jersey. He also has a step-great-grandson, who lives in New Jersey and New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New England, and South Carolina, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Florida, among other states. He lives with his wife and two children in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he works as an anchor and reporter for Fox News. His wife is a former CNN anchor and anchor-reporter, and he has also worked for NBC, ABC, CBS, and The New York Times, among many other networks. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his husband and three children, and has a daughter who lives with her mother in New Hampshire. He works as a freelance journalist and has written a book about his time as a reporter.
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