LeDuff Gets National Beat For Fox Stations

Charlie LeDuff on Monday was named national news correspondent for Fox Television Stations (FTS). In addition to leading a series of national news reports on all Fox O&Os called The Americans with Charlie LeDuff, he will continue his role as investigative reporter for Fox’s WJBK Detroit.

In making the announcement, Sharri Berg, SVP of news operations, FTS, said: “Charlie’s unorthodox storytelling, no-holds-barred attitude and exceptional wit combine to produce a news product that is unlike any other reporting out there.”

LeDuff added: “What does being an American mean? That’s what we’re doing out there with our cameras, asking: Who are we? Where are we going? We have been traveling from Elko to East Rutherford and have seen the bindings of our civic fabric unraveling: debt, unemployment, fear of the future. Mass migration. Digitization. Globalization. Political polarization. Corporatization. We are hitting the road — the blue highways, the cul de sacs and the corridors of power — in search of ‘America’ and ourselves.”

During his tenure at WJBK, LeDuff has exposed incompetence and corruption in Detroit. He is also the best-selling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy in 2012. From 1995 to 2007, LeDuff was a reporter for The New York Times. He is the author of US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man, Work and Other Sins and Detroit: An American Autopsy.

LeDuff contributed to the 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series How Race Is Lived in America and has also received a Meyer Berger Award for distinguished writing about New York City.