Harold Dow
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Harold Dow (Born September 28, 1947, in Hackensack, New Jersey[1]) is an American television news correspondent, journalist, and investigative reporter who works for CBS News.
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[edit] Journalist credentials
Dow has been a correspondent for the CBS TV investigative news series 48 Hours since 1990, after serving as a contributor to the broadcast since its premiere on January 1988. He had been a contributing correspondent for 48 Hours on Crack Street, the critically acclaimed 1986 documentary that led to the single-topic weekly news magazine. Dow conducted the first network interview for 48 Hours with O. J. Simpson following the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Dow graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Prior to his work with 48 Hours, Dow was a correspondent for the CBS News magazine Street Stories (1992-93) and has also reported for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS News Sunday Morning.
[edit] Other Accomplishments
Before joining CBS News, Dow had been an anchor and reporter at Theta Cable TV in Santa Monica, California. He was also a freelance reporter for KCOP-TV Los Angeles, a news anchor for WPAT Radio in Paterson, N.J., and a reporter, co-anchor and talk-show host for KETV-TV in Omaha, Nebraska.
Dow joined CBS News in 1972, first as a broadcast associate, then as a correspondent with their Los Angeles Bureau while with KCOP-TV. Dow reported on the return of POWs from Vietnam and the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, with whom he had an exclusive interview in December 1976.
[edit] References
- ^ Harold Dow profile, 48 Hours (TV series). Accessed October 11, 2007. "Dow was born in Hackensack, N.J. He attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha."
