12 Facts About Charles Bierbauer

Charles Bierbauer was born on July 22,1942 and is a former professor and dean of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies at the University of South Carolina.

Charles Bierbauer is a graduate of Emmaus High School in Emmaus, Pennsylvania and Penn State, where he earned three degrees, a bachelor's degree in Russian, a bachelor's degree in journalism, and a master's degree in journalism.

In 1962, Bierbauer joined the 7217th Air Division, where he was assigned to Sinop, Turkey, serving with the US Army Security Agency in 1962 and 1963.

Charles Bierbauer reported news, did play-by-play base sports, and hosted a jazz show.

Charles Bierbauer started his commercial broadcast career as a radio reporter for WKAP radio in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1963.

Charles Bierbauer worked in print journalism, writing for The Morning Call in Allentown.

From 1977 to 1981, Charles Bierbauer was a foreign correspondent for ABC News, serving as ABC's Moscow bureau chief and later as its Bonn bureau chief.

In 1981, Charles Bierbauer joined CNN, where he was CNN's Pentagon correspondent from 1981 to 1984, its senior White House correspondent from 1984 to 1993, and its senior Washington, DC correspondent from 1993 to 2001.

In July 2002, Charles Bierbauer was appointed the first dean of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina, and served in this position until August 2017.

Charles Bierbauer is a recipient of the CableACE Award from the Association for Cable Excellence and the Overseas Press Club Award for Group W's reporting on the Yom Kippur War.

Charles Bierbauer served as a member of the National Council for Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, and is on the advisory board for the Washington Center for Politics and Journalism.

Charles Bierbauer is of German descent and is married to Susanne Schafer, an Associated Press reporter and formerly AP's Pentagon correspondent.