Tony Snow is currently host of the Tony Snow Show on FOX News Radio and Weekend Live with Tony Snow on the Fox News Channel.

After graduating from Princeton High School in Sharonville, Ohio, Snow obtained his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Davidson College, and did graduate work in philosophy and economics at the University of Chicago. In 1987, he married his wife Jill and now has three children.

Snow began his career in newspapers in 1979 when he worked at The Greensboro Record, The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, and The Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia), the Detroit News and The Washington Times. He took a two-year break from journalism to serve as the speechwriter and later as deputy assistant to the president for Media Affairs for President George H.W. Bush. From 1996 to 2003 he served as the host of FOX News Sunday. Snow also wrote a syndicated newspaper column, which appeared in more than 200 papers across the nation from 1993 to 2002. Before being given his own radio show, Snow frequently served as a guest host on the Rush Limbaugh program.

In 2004, Snow was diagnosed with colon cancer. He returned to work in April 2005.

Controversies

In his August 12 column, Snow claimed that "evolutionary theory, like ID, isn't verifiable or testable. It's pure hypothesis," and specifically denied conventional wisdom in support for evolutionary theory that exists in the fossil record.

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