Dave Marash

Dave Marash (born c. 1942)^[2] is an American television journalist known for his work at ABC News and Al Jazeera English.

Life and career

Marash was born to a Jewish family, his father having been a director of a Jewish Community Center in Richmond, Virginia.^[3] A graduate of Williams College ^{[citation needed]}, Marash worked at New Brunswick, New Jersey, station WCTC-AM (1450), where he hosted a nightly talk show, Dave Marash On Call. He had also been a reporter at WPIX. He did both news and sports reporting for WCBS Newsradio 88 and WNEW-FM in New York City. He subsequently worked at WCBS-TV in New York.

Marash was host of

Marash garnered considerable attention when he joined Al Jazeera English in January 2006 as the network's Washington, D.C., anchor,^[5] 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."^[6] 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.^[7]

On February 14, 2011, Marash defended Al Jazeera English on the