Bob Barnard Bio, FOX 5 DC, Age, Height, Education, Family, Wife, Children and Career

Bob Barnard Biography

Bob Barnard is a skilled journalist currently working as a news reporter for FOX 5 DC morning team live reporting for the 6 a.m., 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. newscasts and for Good Day DC. He joined the station in November 1997.

Bob Barnard Career

Barnard worked the night shift for a decade coming home to a dark and quiet house as late as midnight, and is now waking up before dawn and quietly leaving his home and family to be part of the FOX 5 Morning team.

It’s a fairly big change for him as he is naturally a night owl. All those years reporting for the 10 and 11 p.m. newscasts seemed like the perfect fit but now Barnard loves the mornings. Furthermore, the people he is working with and extended airtime are a surprising shot in the arm for somebody who’s been doing this for a while. Being home in the afternoons and evenings has also improved the quality of his home life.

Barnard was born and raised in New York and its pathetic but true he had never been west of Pennsylvania before he got his first TV reporting job at the ABC station in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1984 at 22 years old. Barnard worked as a news reporter for KTNV Channel 13 Action News for slightly over two years. It was a lucky break for a kid who’d spent only a little more than a year as a desk assistant at NBC News in New York City for just over a year.

He graduated with a bachelors degree from Fordham University in the Bronx, New York in May 1983. After college classes, he’d be hauling butt down the 3rd-floor hallway at 30 Rock in Manhattan with scripts in hand for the producers and directors in the control room and Tom Brokaw on the set of Nightly News.

Bob Barnard Early Life

When Barnard wasn’t “running for Broke,” he’d help the adults in the newsroom keep track of all the camera crews and reporters covering stories in the U.S. and overseas and this was before computers!

It was a great introduction to the TV news business for Barnard, when he thinks back on that first on-air job in Vegas. Barnard recalls one of the saddest stories he ever covered. It was late at night and his shift had just completed, when they got word that a family of five had been swept up in raging floodwaters out in the desert south of the Strip. The dad had basically killed his family trying to cross a washed-out street in their truck during a rare and wicked rainstorm.

It was September 10, 1984 and out in the desert, as police searched on foot and by helicopter for the youngest child – a 13-week-old baby who’d been carried away in the flash flood. Barnard walked up on the parents and two older children as they were just lying there dead lined up in a row. They looked like mud-caked, life-sized dolls there among the sand and rocks near the mangled pickup. He quickly realized the job of a TV news reporter can expose you to some of the most dreadful things imaginable.

However, it also takes you to great places and introduces you to fascinating people. His next job as a news reporter was with the CBS TV station, WKMG News 6 in Orlando, Florida for nearly six years. From its Daytona Beach bureau, Barnard covered NASCAR and Spring Break.

Bob Barnard FOX 5 DC

In addition, he got to fly with the Blue Angels, parachuted on the back of a veteran skydiver dressed as Santa, and invited viewers to watch as a tattoo artist named Snapper put Woodstock on his hip for life. That was in a temporary tattoo parlor set up for Bike Week in ’88. Yes, all in the name of TV news.

Prior to moving to WTTG FOX 5 , Barnard moved to the CBS station, FOX13 Tampa Bay in Tampa as a news reporter for over six years. There he helped cover countless hurricanes and the U.S. military’s efforts to feed starving refugees in Somalia. In addition, Barnard also covered the Oklahoma City bombing, and O.J. Simpson’s “not guilty” verdict from the streets of Los Angeles.

He joined FOX 5 DC in 1997 and among the stories he has shared with the loyal viewers are: the Beltway snipers’ reign of terror and the attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Of course, most of what they do is tell stories about people from the cities and towns close to home and sadly, there’s always enough madness and mayhem to keep them busy. But it’s the stories of ordinary people doing good and interesting things that keeps him coming back for more. Growing up on Long Island and watching New York City news, Barnard knew at a fairly young age that he wanted to be a TV news reporter when he grew up. Not that he has ever grown up, but Barnard can truly say he enjoys going to work every day. For that, Barnard considers himself a fortunate guy.

Bob Barnard Age

He was born in New York and got his first TV reporting job at the ABC station in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1984 at 22 years old. Barnard is 62 years old as of 2024.

Bob Barnard Height

There is no information about his height. However, will update as soon as the information is available.

Bob Barnard Education

He graduated with a bachelors degree from Fordham University in the Bronx, New York in May 1983.

Bob Barnard Family

Barnard was born and raised in New York. There is no information about his parents or siblings. However, will update as soon as the information is available.

Bob Barnard Wife

There is no information about his wife However, will update as soon as the information is available.

Bob Barnard Children

He is a father to an 18 year old son, Jimmy and in May 2024 covered a lockdown in his son’s school Maryland High School as he sheltered in the gym with other teachers and students.


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