Seth Doane Biography
Seth Doane is an American television journalist based in Rome who works as a CBS News correspondent, primarily for “CBS Sunday Morning,” but also contributes to other CBS News broadcasts and platforms.
How old is Seth Doane? – Age
He is 43 years old as of 26 June 2021. He was born in 1978 in Harwich, Massachusetts, United States.
Seth Doane Parents – Siblings
Doane’s immediate family has also left their imprint on the community. Seth’s father was a local politician who helped establish the Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard land trusts, which protect large swaths of land surrounding the two Cape Cod islands. Her grandmother was also an early ranger at Cape Cod National Seashore, where she was the first to create the first blind trail in the National Park system.
Who is Seth Doane’s Husband?
He is openly gay. He is married to Andrea Pastorelli. The couple ha been married since 2014. On September 6, 2014, an outdoor wedding ceremony was held at the Villa Rosa Badia Di Campoleone Ristorante & Relais in Italy. Doane frequently posts pictures of himself and his partner on social media. In April 2017, the reporter took to Instagram to wish Pastorelli’s birthday—one of many posts that show how much they adore each other.
Seth Doane Salary
He earns an annual salary of $ 100 thousand.
Seth Doane Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.
Seth Doane Career
Doane has been based in Italy since 2016, where he has covered terrorist attacks and breaking news across Europe. He has also traveled with Pope Francis as part of his Vatican coverage, and has reported on issues ranging from migration to climate change. He has reported live from Damascus as US-led coalition airstrikes hit targets in Syria, and Doane was among the first journalists to travel into the war-torn suburb of Douma as Bashar al-forces Assad’s took control. As the United States relocated its embassy to Jerusalem, he reported extensively from the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel.
Before moving to Rome, the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist worked as CBS News’ Asia correspondent in Beijing for three years. Doane covered a wide range of stories across the region during that time, including an intrepid journey into the South China Sea to see China’s island-building efforts, two trips into closed-off North Korea, and reporting from across China on economics, human rights, pollution, and politics. In Japan, he dressed up and went inside reactor four of the Fukushima nuclear power plant to report on the ongoing effects of the earthquake and tsunami.
Doane has traveled to over 70 countries and reported from the front lines of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq during his career. He has reported from the glaciers of Greenland and the Atacama Desert of Chile, where 33 miners were trapped. He has taken viewers to disaster zones such as the Indian Ocean tsunami, the earthquake that shook Haiti, and the typhoon that devastated the Philippines.
He won the George Foster Peabody Award for a solo trip to Darfur, where he shot and produced a report on Sudan’s humanitarian situation for the in-school television network Channel One News. Doane reported from the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis in the spring of 2020 and contracted COVID-19 early on. In an effort to reduce stigma, inform viewers, and chronicle his experience with and recovery from the virus, he reported from his home quarantine about his diagnosis and symptoms.
Doane traveled extensively across the United States, focusing for a time on a “CBS Evening News” series titled “The Other America,” which chronicled the U.S. economy’s downturn ahead of the Great Recession. His reports provided heartbreaking glimpses of a struggling America, whether it was people lining up before dawn at free medical clinics or employees of an Elkhart, Indiana, restaurant as their boss announced he would have to lay off employees.
Doane was a regular contributor to “CBS Sunday Morning” before becoming a dedicated correspondent, filing stories about the Japanese art of Bonsai, gondolas in Venice, and pianos made from the wood of Italy’s stunning Val di Fiemme forest. He has interviewed the Dalai Lama, Jane Goodall, Sophia Loren, and Sir Paul McCartney, as well as delved into serious issues such as gun violence and firearms regulations in Australia and gay priests in America.
Previously, Doane worked as a correspondent for “60 Minutes+,” a streaming edition of 60 Minutes available on Paramount Global’s Paramount+ service, where he led viewers on an action-packed journey into the powerful ‘Ndrangheta mafia clans of Calabria, Italy. He also flew to the Alps to see the Alps’ vanishing glaciers, SCUBA dived into the Bay of Naples to reveal the submerged, ancient town of Baia, and visited Iceland’s erupting volcano.
Doane previously worked for CNN International as a correspondent in New Delhi, India. Doane began his on-camera career at Channel One News in Los Angeles, which was streamed to nearly eight million students in schools across the United States.
His first job in television was with Fox 5 (WNYW-TV) in New York, where he worked in the Special Projects and Investigations unit. While there, Doane was nominated for a local Emmy Award in the investigative category for a report on school security that he helped produce at the age of 22.