Fred Shropshire is the evening news anchor at WCNC-TV.
Shropshire comes to WCNC from Raleigh, where he spent the past eight years at WTVD-TV. During that time, he anchored the 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. newscasts for the ABC affiliate. He is known as the "go-to" journalist during big story coverage. Shropshire conducted several sit-down interviews with then-Senator Barack Obama during his historic presidential run to the White House. He has chased hurricanes, having field-anchored from Galveston, TX when Hurricane Ike made landfall. He has also reported from major events, including the 2005 World Series, the Jena Six Rally in Louisiana and Michael Jackson's memorial service in Los Angeles.
Shropshire began his career as a reporter at WCTI-TV in New Bern, where he extensively covered the 2000 Osprey Crash outside of Jacksonville, NC. His career then took him to Winston-Salem, where he was hired as a reporter at WXII-TV. It was at WXII where Shropshire covered many important North Carolina stories, including the Jennifer Short kidnapping, the Kinston chemical plant explosion, the Air Midwest Flight 5481 plane crash and the arrest of Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph. Before coming to Raleigh, Shropshire worked as a reporter at WGN-TV in Chicago.
Shropshire and his wife Sheyenne have two children: Three year-old Carolina and one year-old Ezra.
Shropshire graduated with a Journalism degree from the University of North Carolina. In 2006, he was honored as UNC's distinguished Nelson Benton Lecturer.
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