Don Dahler

WGHP-TV in High Point, North Carolina in 1982. He reported there for three years. He began as an unpaid intern for KENS-TV in San Antonio.^[1]

48 Hours. Prior to that, he made documentaries and wildlife films in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. During the 2001–02 television season, he was seen hosting Justice Files on the Discovery Channel.^[4][5][6]

Daily News reported that the station had decided to give Don the co-anchorage for the 12 noon and 6:00 p.m. newscasts, which paried him with veteran Dana Tyler; all of this just five days after two-time alum Jim Rosenfield was let go for the sake of budget cuts. Steve Bartelstein, whom Dahler auditioned to replace at WABC-TV after Bartelstein was fired, replaced Dahler as Mary Calvi

World News Tonight. He has travelled to Kosovo for war coverage and to Afghanistan and Iraq for the same reason. He was embedded with the 101st Airborne

Columbine shootings in his native Colorado. On September 11, 2001, Dahler was the first network correspondent on the scene of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York city reporting live via telephone from his apartment—which was just blocks away from ground zero—a few moments after the first plane hit the towers. As he was one of the only reporters at ground zero when the planes hit, Dahler filed the first report of the south tower's collapse mere seconds after it occurred. Two weeks later, he was one of the first American journalists travelling to Afghanistan before the U.S. began its bombing campaign against the Taliban. In 2002, prior to the Iraq War, Dahler and a team from Nightline, became the first journalists from the United States to successfully cross the Syrian border into northern Iraq prior to the Iraq War

summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. ^{[citation needed}