Charles Bierbauer

Charles Bierbauer (born 22 July 1942 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) was for many years CNN’s senior Washington correspondent^[1] and a veteran reporter covering national and international affairs.

As a CNN correspondent, Bierbauer reported on five presidential campaigns and served as CNN’s senior White House correspondent for almost a decade during the Reagan and Bush Administrations. He has traveled with American presidents to all 50 states and more than 30 nations.

Education

Bierbauer is a graduate of Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania and Penn State, where he earned three degrees: a Bachelor's degree in Russian, a Bachelor's degree in journalism, and a Master's degree in journalism. Penn State has named him a distinguished alumnus and alumni fellow.

Early career

Bierbauer began his career in radio at KBOK Radio in Sinop, Turkey while assigned there with TUSLOG Det 4 in 1962-1964 with the Army Security Agency. At Sinop, he worked wiring the base for radio and also did various on-air duties including sports play by play. He started his commercial broadcast career as a radio reporter for WKAP radio in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1963. He also worked in print journalism, writing for The Morning Call in Allentown. He was a reporter with the Associated Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1967–68) and a correspondent in Bonn for the Chicago Daily News.

Television career

Bierbauer was an overseas correspondent for ABC News (1977–81), first as Moscow bureau chief and later as the Bonn bureau chief. Prior to that, he worked in Philadelphia, London, Bonn and Vienna as a correspondent for Westinghouse Broadcasting. He worked for CNN for 20 years.

In 2001 he was reporter and producer for a Discovery Channel documentary on the September 11, 2001 attacks.

He served as a member of the National Council for Media & Public Affairs at George Washington University and is on the advisory board for the Washington Center for Politics and Journalism.

In 1997, he won an Emmy for anchoring CNN coverage of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. He also is a recipient of the ACE Award from the Association for Cable Excellence and the Overseas Press Club Award for his reporting of the Yom Kippur War.

Bierbauer became the first dean of the newly merged College of Mass Communications and Information Studies at the University of South Carolina in July 2002. He also has remained involved with Penn State as a lecturer and as a member of the College of Communications Board of Visitors and as a member of the alumni association's Communications Advisory Board. He is currently the dean of The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of South Carolina.^[2]

Personal

Bierbauer is married to Susanne Schafer, formerly the Pentagon correspondent for the Associated Press. He has four children and six grandchildren.

References

1. ^ LLC, New York Media, (1991-02-11). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. pp. 38–. http://books.google.com/books?id=3OgCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38. Retrieved 13 August 2011. 
2. ^ Quinn, Stephen (2005). Convergent journalism: the fundamentals of multimedia reporting. Peter Lang. pp. 72–. ISBN 9780820474526. http://books.google.com/books?id=tm6AFv3plbQC&pg=PA72. Retrieved 13 August 2011. 

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