Chad Pergram

Chad Pergram began his career in journalism in high school as an intern and later reporter/anchor at WKRC-AM in Cincinnati. He also worked at WKRC-TV and then joined public radio station WMUB-FM in Oxford, OH. He became Senate producer for C-SPAN in 1993, after which he produced and anchored newscasts for NPR in Washington. Pergram was a reporter for Capitol News Connection prior to joining Fox News Channel, in September 2007, as the senior producer for the House of Representatives. Pergram was named Best Radio Reporter by the Ohio Associated Press in 1992. He has also received prestigious statewide awards for Best Use of Sound, Best Investigative Reporting, and Best Broadcast Writing. He has covered a variety of stories, including the Robert Mapplethorpe photo exhibit trial, Pete Rose's banishment from baseball, President Clinton's impeachment, and the Stanley Cup Finals. On Capitol Hill, Pergram enjoys doing stories that allows the listener to “look beneath the Dome to see how the machinery of Congress works”. In March 2007, he won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in reporting for his coverage of outgoing House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX). He also specializes in producing sound-rich features. In particular, he has compiled several "day-in-the-life" reports, detailing what lawmakers do all day (Pergram had to go running at 4:45 a.m. with one senator in 20-degree weather). He also prepared an audio diary of President Bush's inauguration and assembled a behind-the-scenes look at both political conventions.

In March 2006, Pergram’s colleagues and co-workers at the Radio/Television Correspondents Association saluted him with the Joan S. Barone Award for Excellence in National Affairs/Public Broadcast Journalism. It’s the most prestigious prize for Washington-based broadcast reporting. Previous recipients include Tim Russert, Bob Schieffer, Nina Totenberg and Roger Mudd. Pergram was the youngest recipient of the award and the first radio reporter to be honored in 12 years.

Pergram is the self-proclaimed “genesis” of Miami’s Inside Washington Program - one of the premier study programs at the University. The Inside Washington Program gives students the opportunity to meet the movers and shakers of Washington, D.C. and intern in a world-class environment only the nation’s capital can provide. The program focuses on topics in Political Science, Communications, and Journalism; however, it is open to undergraduates and graduate students from any major or academic division. In 1998, the program started as a summer internship program and in the fall of 2007, the university approved a pilot fall semester based program which was extremely successful. The university will send students out in the spring of 2009 for another semester based program and beginning in 2010 the program will expand to a full year program mirroring the highly acclaimed Miami Luxembourg Study Abroad Program. The Inside Washington Program is now approaching its 10-year anniversary.

Pergram is a native of Jacksonburg, OH, the state's smallest incorporated village, population: 52. He earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Miami University (Ohio) in 1991 and a master's degree in Communication from Miami in 1993. He teaches a seminar in Washington for his alma mater on the confluence of media and politics.