Charles Bierbauer
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Charles Bierbauer was CNN’s senior Washington correspondent 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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Early career
Bierbauer began his career as a radio reporter for WKAP radio in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1963. But he is no stranger to print journalism, having written for his hometown newspaper, The Morning Call in Allentown. He was a reporter with the Associated Press in Pittsburgh from 1967-68 and a correspondent in Bonn for the Chicago Daily News.
[edit] Television career
From 1977-81, he was an overseas correspondent for ABC News, 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.
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.
[edit] CNN
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 his alma mater of 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.
[edit] Personal
Bierbauer is married to Susanne Schafer, formerly The Pentagon correspondent for the Associated Press. He has four children and six grandchildren.
