John Ziegler (born March 28, 1967) is a former radio program host, documentary film writer/director, and conservative journalist.

[3] Ziegler was born in a U.S. Army post in Heidelberg, Germany,[4] and grew up as the eldest son of a financial manager in the small village of Washington Crossing, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

[6] He left the position to write a book about high school football in Steubenville, Ohio, called Dynasty of the Crossroads.

[10] After the book, he took a position as a sportscaster at WRAZ in Raleigh, North Carolina, but was fired in 1995 after making what he describes as an "incredibly tame" joke about his belief that O. J. Simpson was guilty.

[citation needed] In 2006, Ziegler supported the Yarmuth election campaign for Kentucky's 3rd congressional district,[14] both financially and as a political adviser.

[citation needed] Yarmuth won the election to Congress, defeating his incumbent Republican opponent Anne Northup.

[16] As both WHAS and KFI are owned by Clear Channel, this placed him in the unusual situation of having been fired and re-hired by the same company within a short time frame.

[2] The program was mostly news-based political commentary, but it also brought up other issues such as events happening in Ziegler's personal life.

[19] In June 2009, Ziegler began a show on Los Angeles news/talk radio station KGIL 1260 AM, which ran from 11 AM until 1 PM.

[20] Beginning November 2, 2014, Ziegler rejoined Brandon to host the John and Leah Show on KHTS in Santa Clarita, California.

[23] John and Leah was named as one of the 100 most influential radio talk shows in the United States by Talkers Magazine in 2016, coming in at #99.

Paterno family attorney Wick Sollers released a statement, describing it as "transparently self-serving and yet another insult to the victims and anyone who cares about the truth in this tragic story" [32] Ziegler has been a columnist at Mediaite since 2016.