Ex-CNNer Bill Hemmer On What's Different At Fox: "We're A Business. Viewers Count"

New York Observer:

"He's an Ohio guy," said Bill Hemmer. "And I'm an Ohio guy. We Buckeyes stick together."

It was a recent Wednesday morning, and Mr. Hemmer, a native of Cincinnati, was sitting across from NYTV at a restaurant in the Muse Hotel on West 46th Street, talking about his boss Roger Ailes, the president of the Fox News Channel and scion of Warren, Ohio.

Until a few years ago, Mr. Hemmer and Mr. Ailes played on opposite sides of the ball. Mr. Hemmer, 43, made his name at CNN, where he rose quickly through the ranks over the course of a decade, reporting from the likes of Kosovo and Afghanistan and hosting a series of morning news shows.

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