Seth Doane Biography

Seth Doane is a CBS News television journalist in the United States working as a correspondent stationed in Rome who mostly reports for “CBS Sunday Morning” but also contributes to other CBS News shows and platforms.

Seth Doane Age

Doane is 43 years old as of 2021. He was born on 26 June 1978 in Harwich, Massachusetts, United States.

Seth Doane Height

Doane stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.7m.).

Seth Doane Parents / Siblings

Doane is proud of his Cape Cod roots, where his family has resided for the past 12 generations. He has not shared any information regarding his loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.

Seth Doane Education

Doane earned a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication in 2000.

Seth Doane Wife

Doane is openly gay. Doane married Andrea Pastorelli on September 6, 2014. The couple married at the Villa Rosa Badia Di Campoleone in a same-sex civil ceremony in Arezzo, Italy.

Seth Doane Education

Doane earned a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication in 2000. He is proud of his Cape Cod roots, where his family has resided for the past 12 generations.

Seth Doane Salary

Doane earns an annual salary of $1 Million.

Seth Doane Net Worth

Doane has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.

Seth Doane Career

Doane has been reporting on subjects ranging from migration to climate change since moving to Italy in 2016. He has covered terrorist incidents and breaking news around Europe, as well as traveling with Pope Francis as part of his Vatican coverage. Doane has covered Middle East wars, including reporting live from Damascus as US-led coalition bombs hit targets in Syria, and he was one of the first journalists to enter the war-torn suburb of Douma when Bashar al-forces Assad’s took control. As the United States moved its embassy to Jerusalem, he reported extensively from the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel.

Prior to going to Rome, the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist spent three years as CBS News’ Asia correspondent in Beijing, China. Doane covered a wide range of topics across the area during that time, including an intrepid trek into the South China Sea to see China’s island-building activities, two trips into closed-off North Korea, and reporting from all over China on economy, human rights, pollution, and politics. In Japan, he dressed himself and walked into reactor four of the Fukushima nuclear power plant to report on the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami.

Doane has reported from the front lines of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in more than 70 nations during the course of his career. He has reported from the glaciers of Greenland and the Atacama Desert in Chile, where 33 miners were trapped. He has taken viewers to disaster zones around the world, including the Indian Ocean tsunami, Haiti’s earthquake, and the Philippines’ typhoon. He won the George Foster Peabody Award for a solo trip to Darfur, where he shot and produced a program for the in-school television network Channel One News on Sudan’s humanitarian situation.

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Doane reported from the epicenter of the COVID-19 problem in the spring of 2020, and he contracted COVID-19 early on. In an effort to remove stigma, enlighten viewers, and chronicle his experience with and recovery from the illness, he reported from his home quarantine about his diagnosis and symptoms. Initially headquartered in New York City for CBS News, Doane traveled extensively around the United States, concentrating for a time on a series for the “CBS Evening News” dubbed “The Other America,” which covered the U.S. economy’s slump before to the Great Recession. His reporting revealed painful images of a struggling America, whether it was people queuing up at free medical clinics before dawn or employees of an Elkhart, Indiana, restaurant as their manager told he would have to lay off workers.

Doane contributed to “CBS Sunday Morning” before becoming a devoted reporter, filing tales about the Japanese art of Bonsai, gondolas in Venice, and pianos made from the wood of Italy’s magnificent Val di Fiemme forest. He’s done profiles on the Dalai Lama, Jane Goodall, Sophia Loren, and Sir Paul McCartney, as well as serious subjects including gun violence and guns legislation in Australia and homosexual priests in the United States.

Doane formerly worked as a journalist for “60 Minutes+,” a streaming edition of 60 Minutes available on Paramount Global’s Paramount+ program, where he led viewers on an action-packed journey into the formidable ‘Ndrangheta mafia factions in Calabria, Italy. He also took a helicopter ride into the Alps to observe their dwindling glaciers, suited up for a SCUBA dive into the Bay of Naples to see the sunken, ancient village of Baia, and traveled to the edge of an erupting volcano in Iceland.

Doane was the CNN International correspondent in New Delhi, India, before joining CBS News. Doane began his on-camera career at Channel One News in Los Angeles, where he was broadcast to almost eight million kids in schools around the country. His first work in television was with Fox 5 in New York’s Special Projects and Investigations section. Doane was nominated for a local Emmy Award in the investigative category while he was there for a report he helped make about school security when he was 22 years old.

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