Former NCS correspondent Charles Bierbauer has died, his household introduced on Sunday. He was 83 years outdated.
Bierbauer retired from NCS in 2001 after 20 years overlaying information in Washington, DC, and around the globe.
He joined NCS in 1981 to cowl the Pentagon as a protection correspondent. He was then the community’s senior White House correspondent for 9 years, overlaying the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He additionally served because the community’s senior Washington correspondent, highlighting his deep information of the US presidency, coverage and politics.
The veteran journalist traveled with presidents to all 50 states and greater than 30 nations, and he served as president of the White House Correspondents’ Association from 1991 to 1992. He additionally lined presidential campaigns between 1984 and 2000, in addition to the Supreme Court.
Bierbauer received an Emmy for his protection of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. He additionally anchored NCS’s “Newsmaker Saturday,” a weekly present that includes interviews with prime newsmakers, for a decade.
“Charles Bierbauer was a cherished member of the NCS family, who covered everything from the White House and the Pentagon to the Supreme Court during his two decades with the network,” stated a NCS spokesperson Sunday. “A tireless reporter and wonderful colleague, Charles will be remembered for his outstanding journalism and his willingness to help others.”
Longtime NCS anchor Wolf Blitzer stated in a press release Sunday Bierbauer had been a mentor to him.
“Charles inspired me and helped me throughout my assignments at the Pentagon and the White House. He was a good friend, colleague, and mentor, and I will certainly miss him,” Blitzer stated.
Before becoming a member of NCS, Bierbauer had an in depth profession spanning greater than a decade as a global journalist. He was the ABC News Moscow bureau chief and correspondent starting in 1978, and he later served because the community’s bureau chief in Bonn, Germany. He had beforehand labored in London, Bonn and Vienna for Westinghouse Broadcasting.
Versed in protection of Eastern Europe through the Cold War, Bierbauer lined all US-Soviet summits, beginning in 1975 with President Gerald Ford and the Soviet Union’s Leonid Brezhnev via the 1992 assembly between Presidents George H.W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin.
He began his profession as a radio reporter in his native Allentown, Pennsylvania, and later wrote for town’s native newspaper.
Bierbauer graduated in 1966 from Pennsylvania State University, the place he earned a bachelor’s diploma in Russian and bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in journalism. He has been acknowledged as a distinguished alumnus and alumni fellow by the college.
Bierbauer grew to become the primary dean of the University of South Carolina’s College of Mass Communications and Information Studies in 2002. He stepped down from the position in 2017.
Bierbauer is survived by his spouse Susanne Schafer, a former journalist at the Associated Press, and his 4 youngsters.
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