# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-jacobson
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:53:44.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-jacobson"
name: "Walter Jacobson"
slug: "walter-jacobson"
description: "Walter David Jacobson is a former Chicago television news personality and a current Chicago radio news personality. He currently provides opinion segments for WGN Radio AM 720. From 2010 until 2013, he was an anchor of the 6 p.m. news on WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he also had worked from 1973 until 1993. From 1993 until 2006, he was principal anchor on WFLD-TV's FOX News at 9 and the host of FOX Chicago Perspective, a one-hour news and political show that aired Sunday mornings on WFLD."
tagline: "American television journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1937-07-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.28
  momentum:             0.547112462006079
  historical:           4.249968
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/wgnwaltjacobson"
    handle:    "wgnwaltjacobson"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/walterdoc/"
    handle:    "walterdoc"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "والتر جاكوبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "والتر جاكوبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jacobson"
    title: "Walter Jacobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jacobson"
    title: "Walter Jacobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jacobson"
    title: "Walter Jacobson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7965249"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations