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Stossel in the Classroom
About John Stossel
John Stossel now hosts a weekly show, Stossel, on the Fox Business Channel and also anchors several specials a year for Fox News. Before joining Fox in October 2009, he was co-anchor of ABC News's 20/20. He has been praised for his reporting on issues such as education, healthcare, consumer protection, government regulation, taxes, legal reform, and more.
John's weekly one-hour program, Stossel, airs Thursdays at 8 pm Eastern time on the Fox Business Network and is rebroadcast Thursdays at 12 midnight, Saturdays at 7pm and 11pm, and Sundays at 10pm (all times Eastern).
The author of two national bestsellers—Give Me a Break and Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Why Everything You Know Is Wrong—John's TV specials have consistently rated among the top news programs and have earned him uncommon praise: "The most consistently thought-provoking TV reporter of our time," said the Dallas Morning News, while the Orlando Sentinel said he "has the gift for entertaining while saying something profound."
John began his career as a consumer reporter, criticizing business. He changed his focus after concluding that government regulation hurts consumers more than business.
His most recent TV specials include "Stupid in America," which suggested that the government's monopoly on education cheats kids. "John Stossel's Politically Incorrect Guide to Politics," which pointed out that politicians' "fixes" usually make things worse. "John Stossel Goes to Washington" observed how, under Democrats and Republicans, government keeps growing, while "Tampering with Nature" suggested that most tampering is a good thing.
John's first special, "Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?," examined exaggerated fears of things like chemicals and crime.
The Center for Independent Thought has converted John Stossel's reports into classroom teaching tools to bring lesson plans to life, and offering the DVDs free to teachers to help students think critically about economics. His most popular special in high school classrooms has been "Is America Number 1?," for which John traveled the world to compare American life with life elsewhere and asked: "what makes a nation prosperous?"
John has received 19 Emmy Awards. He has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. Among his other awards are the George Polk Award for Outstanding Local Reporting and the George Foster Peabody Award.
John is a 1969 graduate of Princeton University, with a B.A. in psychology.
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