Van Gordon Sauter (born September 14, 1935) is a television executive who was the president of CBS News and the president of Fox News.
Sauter graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from Ohio University in 1957 and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1959.
After leaving college, he worked as a reporter and staff writer for newspapers in Massachusetts, Detroit, and Chicago.
After leaving CBS News, he helped develop a talk show for Jesse Jackson.
[2][3] He left Fox News when he became heavily involved in his wife's 1994 campaign for California governor.