Greg Dobbswas anABC Newstelevision correspondent.[1] Over two-and-a-half decades, appearing on World News,Nightline,20/20,andGood Morning America,Dobbs won two nationalEmmys[2][3]and was nominated for more. He also won the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Then, beginning in 2004, Dobbs was a correspondent forHDNettelevision's documentary-style World Report. He reported in the United States on everything fromPTSDtosexual offender lawsto advances withstem cell treatmentsto abuse of the Indian Trust, and overseas on topics as varied as the legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam, the stalemate U.S.-funded drug war in Colombia, and the aftermath of Apartheid in South Africa. Between ABC and HDNet, Dobbs has reported from more than 80 countries around the world.
He also provided live reports, along withDan Rather,onprimaryandgeneral electionnights in2008,and covered theU.S. space programfor HDNet, anchoring live fromFloridafor everyspace shuttle launchafter theColumbia disaster.
In-between ABC News and HDNet, Dobbs was a talk show host on the 50,000-watt KOA Radio in Denver, and a columnist forThe Denver Postand the lateRocky Mountain News,and a syndicated columnist forScripps Howard News Service.Also, for six years Dobbs hosted the television program Colorado State of Mind onRocky Mountain PBS,for which he won another Emmy. He has been inducted into the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame.
Currently he writes columns for the online commentary platform Substack, at gregdobbs.substack.com.
Author
editBesides his bookLife in the Wrong Lane,[4]which is about the wacky things journalists have to do just to get to the point of reporting a story, Dobbs also is the author of a university-level journalism textbook called Better Broadcast Writing, Better Broadcast News.
Personal life
editDobbs has two sons and a daughter. He and his wife Carol live inColorado.He is active on community non-profit boards. He is a native ofSan Franciscowith degrees from theUniversity of California at BerkeleyandNorthwestern University.His father was San Francisco politicianHarold Dobbs.
References
edit- ^Henderson, David (2006-04-30).Making News: A Straight-Shooting Guide to Media Relations.iUniverse. p. 96.ISBN9781583484685.Retrieved13 April2012.
- ^http://emmyonline.com/download/1981-Nomination_Winners.pdfArchived2017-06-20 at theWayback Machine[bare URL PDF]
- ^"Archived copy"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2018-07-28.Retrieved2020-12-28.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^Dobbs, Greg (August 2009).Life in the Wrong Lane.iUniverse.ISBN978-1440152764.
External links
edit- Life in the Wrong Lane,The webpage of Greg Dobbs book.