Seth Doane Biography
Seth Doane is an award winning journalist currently working as a CBS News correspondent based in Rome, Italy since 2016. He reports primarily for “CBS News Sunday Morning” and also contributes across CBS News broadcasts and platforms.
Seth Doane Career
Doane relocated to Italy in 2016 and has covered terrorist attacks and breaking news across Europe. In addition, he traveled with Pope Francis as part of his coverage of the Vatican and has reported on issues ranging from migration to climate change. Furthermore, Doane has covered conflicts in the Middle East reporting live from Damascus as U.S.-led coalition airstrikes hit targets in Syria. He was also among the first journalists to travel into the war-torn suburb of Douma as Bashar al-Assad’s forces took control. Doane further reported extensively from the West Bank, Gaza and Israel as the U.S. moved its embassy to Jerusalem.
Prior to moving to Rome, the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist was CBS News’ Asia correspondent for three years, based in Beijing, China. During his time in China, he covered a wide range of stories across the region making a bold journey into the South China Sea to glimpse China’s island-building efforts. Moreover, Doane travelled into closed-off North Korea twice and reported from across China on issues of economics, human rights, pollution, and politics. He further suited-up in Japan and went inside reactor four at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima and covered the continuing fallout of the earthquake and tsunami.
Throughout his career, Doane has traveled to around 70 countries and has filed stories from the front lines of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition, he has reported from Greenland’s glaciers and Chile’s Atacama Desert where 33 miners were trapped. Furthermore, Doane has brought viewers to disaster zones including the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the earthquake that rattled Haiti, and the typhoon that devastated the Philippines.
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Doane is a recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award for a solo trip he took to Darfur, Sudan where he shot and produced his report on the humanitarian situation in Sudan for the in-school television network Channel One News.
He reported from the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis and early on contracted COVID-19 in the spring of 2020. Doane further reported from his home quarantine about his diagnosis and symptoms in an effort to reduce stigma, inform viewers, and chronicle his experience with and recovery from the virus.
Doane was initially based in New York City for CBS News and traveled extensively across the United States focusing, for a while, on a series for the “CBS Evening News” titled “The Other America,” which chronicled the downturn of the U.S. economy ahead of the Great Recession. Additionally, his reports gave heartbreaking glimpses of a struggling America, be it people lining up before dawn at free medical clinics or the employees of an Elkhart, Indiana, restaurant at the moment their boss announced he was going to have to lay off employees.
Furthermore, Doane regularly contributed to the broadcast even before becoming a dedicated correspondent for “CBS Sunday Morning,”. He filed stories about the art of Bonsai in Japan, gondolas in Venice, and pianos made from the wood of Italy’s stunning Val di Fiemme forest. In addition, Doane has profiled the Dalai Lama, Jane Goodall, Sophia Loren, and Sir Paul McCartney and delved into serious topics about gun violence and firearms regulations in Australia or gay priests in America.
Seth Doane Early Life
Before CBS, Doane was also a correspondent for “60 Minutes+,” the streaming edition of 60 Minutes available on Paramount Global’s Paramount+ service, where he took viewers on an action-packed adventure in an investigation of the powerful ‘Ndrangheta mafia clans in Calabria, Italy. He also choppered to the Alps to see its vanishing glaciers, suited up to SCUBA dive into the bay of Naples to reveal the submerged, ancient town of Baia and traveled to the edge of an erupting volcano in Iceland.
Prior to joining CBS News, Doane was the New Delhi, India-based correspondent for CNN International. He began his on-camera career in Los Angeles, California at Channel One News, which was streamed to nearly eight million students in schools across the United States.
His first job in television was with the Special Projects and Investigations unit for Fox 5 (WNYW-TV) in New York. During his time in New York, Doane was nominated for a local Emmy Award in the investigative category for a report he helped produce about school security at the age of 22.
He was born on Cape Cod, Barnstable, Massachusetts and raised in Harwich, Massachusetts and is a proud 12th generational Cape Codder. Doane graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Broadcast Journalism from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (USC) in 2000.
Seth Doane Age
Doane was born Seth Wiley Doane on Cape Cod, Barnstable, Massachusetts on 26 June, 1978 and is now 46 years old as of 2024.
Seth Doane Height
He stands at an average height of 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Seth Doane Education
Doane graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Broadcast Journalism from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (USC) in 2000.
Seth Doane Family
He was born on Cape Cod, Barnstable, Massachusetts and raised in Harwich, Massachusetts. Doane is a proud 12th generational Cape Codder. The detail was revealed in a story for CBS which profiled his father, Paul Doane a former Republican State Senator who represented “Cape Cod and the Islands” in Massachusetts. The story was about his father’s hobby, oyster fishing in Wellfleet. He has one sibling, a younger sister Sarah Sherwood who is married and has a daughter. Doane and his life partner, Andrea are perfect uncles to his niece.
Seth Doane Partner
Doane tied the knot with his partner, Andrea Pastorell on 6 September, 2014 in Arezza, Italy at the Villa Rosa Badia Di Campoleone. Andrea is the Chief Executive Officer for Teach for Italy which is a non profit organization.
Seth Doane Children
There is no information about him having children. However, will update as soon as the information is available.
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