Nexstar Media Group appointed Bill Sammon as Senior Vice President of Washington, D.C., Editorial Content for The Hill, a national source of digital political news and analysis, and NewsNation, Nexstar’s national cable news network.  In this newly created position, he will be responsible for directing Nexstar’s national news content in the nation’s capital, where he will be based.

Sammon, states a release, brings nearly 40 years of experience as a journalist and broadcast news leader to his new role with The Hill and NewsNation.  He started his journalism career in his hometown of Cleveland, working as an investigative reporter for The Plain Dealer newspaper.  In 1995, he moved to Europe to become a war correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, covering conflicts in Bosnia and Iraq.

In 1997, Sammon relocated to Washington, D.C., and spent a decade as a White House correspondent for several newspapers, including The Washington Times.  He has written six books on the presidency, four of which became New York Times bestsellers.

Sammon joined Fox News Channel in 2008, serving as Managing Editor and Senior Vice President of News, based in Washington, D.C. His responsibilities included overseeing presidential debates and the network’s decision desk, where he projected winners and losers in national elections.  During the 2020 presidential election, Sammon was the first to declare Joe Biden the winner in Arizona, a key state that paved the way for Biden’s eventual election.