Starting as a sports reporter and news anchor for the NBC station in San Francisco and a contributing correspondent for NBC TODAY, he went on to produce and report his cross-country Working Journal series for ABC-Good Morning America and co-hosted PM Magazine in New York, along with documentaries for HBO and Showtime.

He was a foreign correspondent for ABC News Nightline, where he earned an Emmy Award for his embedded reporting in Iraq, and currently is a Special Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour.

GLOBE Tv, his San Francisco based global production and communications company, started in 1986 when he licensed the TV rights to the GEO magazines in Europe and the U.S. from

Gruner+Jahr in Germany to produce the first global television magazine, which aired on the NBC stations and The Discovery Channel. GEO evolved into the GLOBE TV series co-produced with ABC International, TF-1 France and Reteitalia-Italy networks and aired on A&E and twenty foreign and inflight networks. 

He earned a B.A. degree in Communications Arts from the University of Notre Dame and a Social Media Studies certificate at Stanford University.  Prior to his communications career, he served as a U.S. Marine officer in Vietnam.

He and his wife, Gina, live in Sausalito, CA on San Francisco Bay, where they raised two daughters.

Clients

News: ABC, NBC, PBS, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, BBC, Euronews, Al Jazeera, Middle East Broadcasting, NHK, Fuji Japan.

Programming: A&ENetwork, Discovery Networks, National Geographic Channel, Disney Channel, HDNET

Corporate: IBM, Intel, Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab, Lord Abbett, IKEA, Hewlett Packard, SAP, AARP, AES, Energy, Ubisoft

Non-profits: CARE, WorldVision, Alice Water’s Edible Schoolyard, Tompkins Conservation, Swords to Plowshares, Semper Fi Fund, Sudan Rescue & Relief, Project RENEW-Vietnam, Blue Planet Run

Speaker/Moderator

Forums: World Economic Forum, UN Foundation, Milken Institute Global Conference, US State Department, Nike Creativity Series,  World Affairs Council, San Francisco Film Festival, Commonwealth Club

Lecturer: University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, University of Southern California-Annenberg School of Communications, Notre Dame Film & TV Department, Stanford Publishing Course, Kent State School of Communications, University of Arizona-Thunderbird School of Global Management, Academy of Art, American Universities–Paris & Cairo, University of Cairo

Honors

Awards: Emmy, Peabody, Overseas Press Club, New York Press Club, Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists, Cable ACE, CINE Golden Eagle and Financial Communications Society awards

Film festival selections: Sundance Film Festival (Closing Film-2008), Berlin, Sydney, San Sebastian Film Festivals