Don Dahler Biography
Don Dahler is a journalist and author from the United States. Dahler worked as an anchor and reporter for the New York television station WCBS-TV. He is currently a CBS News correspondent.
How old is Don Dahler? – Age
He is 61 years old as of 2021. He was born in 1960 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States.
Don Dahler Family – Education
Dahler was born into an Air Force family and spent his childhood traveling throughout the United States. He went to MacArthur High School and then to San Antonio College. He earned his bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Don Dahler Wife
Dahler, who was previously married to NBC News’ Sara James, now lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
Don Dahler Salary
His annual salary is estimated to be $1 million.
Don Dahler Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Where is Don Dahler now? – Career
Dahler joined ABC News in September 1999 as a Good Morning America National Correspondent. He has since filed reports for all ABC programs, including Nightline, Primetime, 20/20 Downtown, Good Morning America, and World News Tonight. He has traveled to Kosovo for war coverage, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq. During the initial invasion, he was embedded with the 101st Airborne, and he has returned for three more embeds with US troops.
Dahler covered the Columbine High School shootings in his home state of Colorado. Dahler was the first network correspondent on the scene of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001, reporting live via phone from his apartment just blocks away a few moments after the first plane hit the towers and later filing the first report of the South Tower’s collapse mere seconds later. Two weeks later, he was among the first American journalists to visit Afghanistan before the United States launched its bombing campaign against the Taliban. In 2002, he was one of the first American journalists, along with a Nightline team, to successfully cross the Syrian border into northern Iraq prior to the Iraq War in more than a decade.
Dahler’s first reporting job, according to his biography, was at WGHP-TV in High Point, North Carolina in 1982. He was only there for three years. He began his career as an unpaid intern for KENS-TV in San Antonio. Dahler was a CNBC correspondent based in Los Angeles in 1997. He filed reports on the sports and entertainment industries while there. Dahler worked as a producer for CBS News’ 48 Hours before joining CNBC and briefly working as an investigative correspondent for Fox News Channel. He previously worked on documentaries and wildlife films in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. He was seen hosting Justice Files on the Discovery Channel during the 2001–02 television season.
Dahler joined CBS2 News as a weekend evening anchor on September 4, 2007. On May 27, 2008, the New York Daily News reported that the station had decided to give Don co-anchorage for the 12Noon and 6:00PM newscasts, pairing him with veteran Dana Tyler; this came just five days after two-time alum Jim Rosenfield was let go due to budget cuts. Dahler was replaced as Mary Calvi’s weekend evening co-anchor by Steve Bartelstein, whom Dahler auditioned to replace after Bartelstein was fired from WABC-TV. Dahler was moved to weekends on September 8, 2011, to make room for Chris Wragge, who was returning to the local station after a 9-month stint as co-host of CBS’ The Early Show.