Dave Marash
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| Born | May 3, 1942 |
| Occupation | Journalist News anchor Television presenter Sports commentator |
David Marash, known as Dave Marash (born May 3, 1942), is an American television journalist known for his work at ABC News and Al Jazeera English.
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Career
A graduate of Williams College[citation needed], Marash worked at New Brunswick, New Jersey station WCTC-AM (1450), where he hosted a nightly talk show, Dave Marash On Call. He had also been a reporter at WPIX. He subsequently worked at WCBS-TV in New York.
Marash was host of ESPN's Baseball Tonight and NBC's GrandStand, which alternated as a National Football League pregame show or a sports anthology series, depending on the season. In the early years of the Fox television network, Marash hosted a magazine-style show of science and technology entitled Beyond Tomorrow.[citation needed]
He then worked at ABC News. His last appearance prior to joining Al Jazeera English was on Nightline. He had anchored newscasts at WNBC in New York and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. during the mid-1980s. He received Emmy Awards for his Nightline coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing and for his coverage of the explosion of TWA Flight 800.[citation needed] His May 2001 Nightline documentary about singer Eva Cassidy was one of the highlights of his years with the program.[1]
Marash garnered considerable attention when he joined Al Jazeera English in January 2006 as the network's Washington, D.C. anchor,[2] thus becoming the de facto American face of the new English-language station. Two years later, in March 2008, he stepped down from his position. Marash explained, "To put it bluntly, the channel that's on now — while excellent, and I plan to be a lifetime viewer — is not the channel that I signed up to do."[3] Specifically, he cited the loss of editorial control and his inability to vouch for content that the network was broadcasting, as reasons for his departure.[4]
On February 14, 2011, Marash defended Al Jazeera English on the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News against claims by Bill O'Reilly that Al Jazeera was anti-American.[5] He joined Santa Fe, New Mexico public radio station KSFR-FM 101.1 in March of 2014 as co-News Director.[6] Since September 2014, he has hosted HERE AND THERE, a 4-times-weekly series of 50 minute news interviews.
Notes
- ↑ Nightline Daily Email: 7/2 Leroy Sievers; retrieved March 6, 2008.
- ↑ Marash Joins Jazeera: "Marriage Made in Heaven", The New York Observer, January 12, 2006, accessed May 2, 2008
- ↑ American Anchor Quits Al Jazeera English Channel, The New York Times, March 28, 2008; accessed April 13, 2008
- ↑ "Dave Marash: Why I Quit", Columbia Journalism Review - The Water Cooler, April 4, 2008, accessed April 13, 2008
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References
- "Hope for the Hirsute", time.com, July 6, 1970; accessed October 17, 2014.
- Profile, msnbc.msn.com; accessed October 17, 2014.
- "In Defense of 'Self-Hating' Jews" by Menachem Wecker, Jewish Currents, May 2007, which quotes Marash
External links
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- Al Jazeera people
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- Living people
- American television reporters and correspondents
- American television news anchors
- Television anchors from New York City
- New York television reporters
- Williams College alumni
- American Jews
- National Football League announcers
- Major League Baseball announcers
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- American journalists of Jewish descent
