Ed Rabel, senior vice president for Weber McGinn and former correspondent with both NBC and CBS , will present”Journalist or Content Provider: What Do You Want to Be?”at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in Room 2118 Health Sciences Center North.
Rabel, a veteran journalist and St. Albans, W.Va., native, will share his more than 35 years of global broadcast experience with students and others as part of WVU Journalism Week.
As a correspondent for both NBC and CBS , he has covered worldwide high profile events the Japanese Red Army massacre of Christian tourists at the Tel Aviv airport, the Contra War and Pope John Paul’s visit to communist Havana, Cuba.
While at NBC , Rabel was first to report on Israel’s illegal transfer of U.S. missile technology to China, as well as exclusively covering NEST , America’s closely guarded Nuclear Emergency Search Team program, both for”NBC Nightly News.”
He has interviewed history makers such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Cuban President Fidel Castro. At CBS he developed an award winning report on the combat nurses in Vietnam.
Rabel has garnered broadcasting’s top honorsa News and Documentary Emmy
Award twice for”CBS Evening News”and”CBS Reports.”In addition, he is a three_time Emmy nominee for his work for”CBS Sunday Morning.”
Before joining Weber McGinn, Rabel was the NBC News Pentagon correspondent
from 1993_97. For the next year, he served as NBC ’s Cuba expert. During that time, he also covered the southeast United States and all of Latin America. Rabel analyzed and reported national security issues on air for all NBC News broadcasts.
Between 198593, he was a Washington, D.C.-based senior correspondent for NBC . Prior to that, as a CBS correspondent, he was based in New York, Atlanta, Tel Aviv, Saigon during the Vietnam War and Atlanta.
At Weber McGinn, a global strategic communications company based in Arlington, Va., Rabel counsels top executives facing communication challenges at national and multi_national corporations. He is also an expert communications trainer at the company’s International Communications Training Center.
He earned a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Morris Harvey College (now the University of Charleston). His alma mater honored him with an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters.
The Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism is hosting the event funded by the Pete Sasser Lecture in Journalism of The Clark Family Lecture Series. Thomas S. Clark, M.D., and Jean C. Clark established the lecture in honor of the School’s late dean.