Jon Decker
Jon Decker
Jon Decker is a White House Correspondent to Fox News Radio. He is lives in Washington D.C. [1] He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
Early life and education
Jon Decker wad born in Washington D.C. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with Bachelors and Masters dregrees and received his Doctor in Law from The George Washington University. [1] He also studied international law at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Career
Jon has been employed as the White House Correspondent for Fox News Radio since December of 2014. [1] He is described by his colleagues as “one of the friendliest people in the White House press room.”
Decker became part of the White House Press Corps in 1995 and is an elected member of the Board of the White House Correspondents' Association.
Decker was a White House correspondent for Reuters Television and SiriusXM Radio; Washington correspondent for PBS Television’s “Nightly Business Report”; the host of PBS Television’s “This Week in Business”; business reporter for the NBC affiliate in Washington (WRC); and field producer for NBC in Miami.
He was a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and was an aide to the late U.S.
Senator John Heinz.
He has covered the Clinton, Bush and Obama Administrations, as well as 21 State of the Union Addresses, 5 Presidential elections and the Impeachment of President Clinton.
He has also covered the Supreme Court uncluding Bush v. Gore, NFIB v. Sebelius and Windsor v. United States.
Decker has reported from Athens, Brussels, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Geneva, Jerusalem, the West Bank, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Montreal, Panama, Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, the Bahamas, Havana and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The Columbia Journalism Review described him as a "refreshingly self-aware-for-a-reporter."
Confrontation with Gateway Pundit correspondent
On March 10, 2017, during an Administration Press briefing, Jon Decker allegedly confronted The Gateway Pundit White House Correspondent Lucian Wintrich. According to Wintrich, Decker physically pushed him in the Break Room declaring him to be a Nazi and said that The Gateway Pundit was a white supremacist publication. Decker also yelled that the Gateway Pundit “hates blacks, Jews, Hispanics.”
Wintrich stated on Twitter that he plans to file a police report over the incident. some reporters offered support to Decker for taking on the Gateway Pundit reporter while others criticized Decker's behavior and said it was unprofessional.