Dave Marash: ABC News Nightline on WCHS-TV8

		Saturday, Nov 21, 2009 09:12:08 AM

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Dave Marash
Correspondent, ABC News "Nightline"

As a correspondent for "Nightline," Dave Marash has contributed reports to the program since the summer of 1989. Since 1992 Mr. Marash has filed a series of reports on the wars in the former Yugoslavia, including stories that predicted the arrival of guerrilla fighting in the province of Kosovo. His reporting on this subject has been highly acclaimed, winning him an Emmy Award in 1994.

Mr. Marash has also received Emmy Awards for his "Nightline" coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing, and for his coverage of the explosion of TWA Flight 800.

Mr. Marash has reported extensively from Kosovo and on Kosovar refugees in Albania and Macedonia. His report on a 13-year-old Kosovar girl injured by a Serb booby-trap produced an outpouring of voluntary contributions, and today the girl -- Ibadete Thaqi -- is being trained, free of charge, in the use of two new prosthetic legs made for her at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. He also reported a three-broadcast series on AIDS in Zimbabwe. In addition Mr. Marash has also investigated charges of human rights violations against peasants in Burma who are living near a natural gas pipeline partially owned by the American oil company Unocal.

Mr. Marash has filed numerous breaking news stories for "Nightline," including world exclusive coverage of the Soufriere Hills volcano eruption on the island of Montserrat, the tactics of tobacco industry lawyers and the suicide bombings in Tel Aviv. He has reported on topics as diverse as the failure of the General Motors' Minority Dealership Development Program, Texaco's despoliation of the environment of the Upper Amazon, the 100th anniversary of the Boston Marathon, baseball great Mark McGwire's recordbreaking homerun season, the 70th anniversary of gospel legends The Dixie Hummingbirds and the controversial issue of immigration.

This year his report on jazz singer Eva Cassidy won widespread acclaim.

During the 1990 baseball season, Mr. Marash also anchored "Baseball Tonight" for ESPN.

Before he began reporting for "Nightline" in 1989, Mr. Marash spent more than a decade in local news in New York and Washington, D.C. From 1985 to 1989 he was a news anchor for WRC-TV, Washington. He was an investigative reporter for WNBC-TV in New York, and a contributing reporter for NBC Weekend News and NBC Sports from 1983 to 1985. He also anchored the news for WCBS-TV in New York in 1981 and 1982, and earlier, from 1973 through 1978.

Mr. Marash was a correspondent for ABC News' "20/20" from 1978 to 1980, where he won a national Emmy Award for his reporting on the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. During that time, he also substituted for two weeks as "Nightline" anchor.

Mr. Marash has published articles in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Journalism Review, MS. Magazine and TV Guide

He has won numerous broadcasting honors, including seven local Emmys, a New York Press Club Award for his WNBC-TV series on the lack of facilities to save victims of smoke inhalation, and an Overseas Press Club Award for his 1972 CBS Radio reports on the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympic Games.

Mr. Marash graduated from Williams College in 1964 and did graduate work at Rutgers University. He and his wife, ABC News executive Kerry Smith Marash, live in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with their children.

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