Carl Cameron (born September 22, 1961, as Karl Emil Othmar Lamberg-Karlovsky) is an American journalist and was a reporter for Fox News for two decades. In 2019 he founded the progressive news aggregator, Front Page Live, where he is chief political correspondent.
Life and career
As a child Cameron spent time in Iran, where his Jewish father C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, a distinguished member of the Harvard faculty, worked as an archaeologist. He grew up in New Hampshire and attended Bates College. He began his media career in 1985 at radio stations WFEA and WZID in Manchester, New Hampshire, first being hired as a salesman at WFEA and breaking into broadcasting when the weather man was sick one day. Later he worked as political director for WMUR-TV, the ABC affiliate in Manchester. as well as Israel's involvement in surveillance on US federal officials and agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Administration leading up to 9/11, including inconclusive reports of Israeli foreknowledge of al-Qa'ida activities prior to the attacks. In June 2019, he founded the progressive news aggregator, Front Page Live, together with Joe Romm, its Editor-in-Chief, Laura Dawn, Sunny Hundal, Helen Stickler, his wife Moira Hopkins, and others. Cameron is Chief Political Correspondent.
In June 2009, Washingtonian Magazine named Cameron one of the top 50 journalists in the nation's capital, saying: "[P]layers on both sides of the aisle trust 'Campaign Carl' and know that his reporting is second to none." A 2012 profile in The New York Times described Cameron as a very hard-working journalist often considered "a member of the home team" at Republican campaign events, yet characterized by reporters from rival networks as collegial and unbiased in his reporting.