Dave Marash

Dave Marash
Dave Marash
	Dave Marash in 2002
Born	Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Education	Williams College
Occupation(s)	Journalist; News anchor; Television presenter; Sports commentator

Dave Marash (born c. 1942)^[2] is an American television journalist known for his work at ABC News and Al Jazeera English.

Life and career

Marash was born to a Jewish family, his father having been a director of a Jewish Community Center in Richmond, Virginia.^[3] 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 did both news and sports reporting for WCBS Newsradio 88 and WNEW-FM in New York City. 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.^[4]

Marash garnered considerable attention when he joined Al Jazeera English in January 2006 as the network's Washington, D.C., anchor,^[5] 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."^[6] 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.^[7]

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.^[8] He joined Santa Fe, New Mexico, public radio station KSFR-FM 101.1 in March 2014 as co–news director.^[9]

Since September 2014, he has hosted the radio show and podcast Here & There: a four-times-weekly series of 50-minute news interviews.

Notes

^ Brennan, Patricia (February 16, 1986). "Dave Marash". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
^ "Former 'Nightline' Reporter Joins English-Language al Jazeera". Los Angeles Times. 13 January 2006.
^ "David Marash: A Jew in al Jazeera's House". 20 August 2013.
^ 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
^ Nox Solutions (2011-02-14). "Bill O'Reilly: The O'Reilly Factor - Monday, February 14, 2011". Billoreilly.com. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
^ George Weston (2014-03-06). "Award-Winning Journalists to Lead KSFR's News Team". ksfr.org. Retrieved 2011-03-26.

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