David Marash, known as Dave Marash (born May 3, 1942), is an American television journalist known for his work at

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and

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Career

A graduate of

Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...

, Marash worked at

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-AM (1450), where he hosted a nightly talk show, ''Dave Marash On Call''. He had also been a reporter at

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. He did both news and sports reporting for WCBS Newsradio 88 and WNEW-FM in New York City. He subsequently worked at

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. Marash was host of

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's ''

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'' and

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's ''

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'', which alternated as a

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pregame show or a sports

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, depending on the season. In the early years of the

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, Marash hosted a magazine-style show of science and technology entitled '' Beyond Tomorrow''. He then worked at

. His last appearance prior to joining Al Jazeera English was on ''

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''. He had anchored newscasts at

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in New York and

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in Washington, D.C., during the mid-1980s. He received

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for his ''

'' coverage of the

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and for his coverage of the explosion of

TWA Flight 800 Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA800) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31pm. Eastern Daylight Time, EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. K ...

. His May 2001 ''

'' documentary about singer

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was one of the highlights of his years with the program. Marash garnered considerable attention when he joined

in January 2006 as the network's

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, anchor, 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." 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. On February 14, 2011, Marash defended Al Jazeera English on the ''

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'' on Fox News against claims by Bill O'Reilly that Al Jazeera was anti-American. He joined

Santa Fe, New Mexico Santa Fe ( ; , Spanish for 'Holy Faith'; tew, Oghá P'o'oge, Tewa for 'white shell water place'; tiw, Hulp'ó'ona, label=Tiwa language, Northern Tiwa; nv, Yootó, Navajo for 'bead + water place') is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. ...

, public radio station KSFR-FM 101.1 in March 2014 as co–news director. Since September 2014, he has hosted the radio show and podcast ''Here & There'': a four-times-weekly series of 50-minute news interviews.

Notes

References

"Hope for the Hirsute"
time.com, July 6, 1970; accessed October 17, 2014.
Profile
msnbc.msn.com; accessed October 17, 2014.

by Menachem Wecker, ''

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'', May 2007, which quotes Marash
A News Legend Comes Out Of Retirement

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