Paul Kangas
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| Born | Houghton, Michigan |
| Education | University of Michigan |
| Occupation | Business broadcaster |
| Ethnicity | Finnish American |
| Notable credit(s) | Co-anchor of Nightly Business Report |
Paul Kangas was the Miami-based co-anchor of the PBS television program Nightly Business Report, a role he held from 1979, when the show was a local PBS program in Miami, through December 31, 2009.[1]
[edit] Career
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Kangas entered the United States Coast Guard in the early 1960s and served aboard the USCG Cutter Mackinaw.[citation needed] Later, he served as aide to the admiral in command of the 9th Coast Guard District in Cleveland, Ohio.[citation needed] Kangas completed his Coast Guard service in 1963 as a Lieutenant (junior grade).
Kangas earned his broker's license after studying at the New York University Stern School of Business.[2] While a stock broker, Kangas began his career as a broadcaster at WINZ, a CBS Radio affiliate in Miami owned by his biggest client.[2]
Kangas joined Nightly Business Report in 1979; in 2003, his "Stocks in the News" segment earned a Financial Writers and Editors Award from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.[2] In 2005, he won a Suncoast Chapter Silver Circle Award.[3] Kangas retired as co-anchor of the Nightly Business Report at the end of 2009.[4]
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will present the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Business & Financial Reporting to Paul Kangas and Linda O’Bryon, the latter the founder of NBR and now chief content officer of Northern California Public Broadcasting.[5]
[edit] Personal life
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Kangas was born in Houghton, Michigan in 1937[citation needed], and is of Finnish descent.[6]
Paul is also an amateur radio operator with the callsign W4LAA.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/paul_kangas_final_farewell_091231/
- ^ a b c "About Paul Kangas". http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/about/bio/kangas/. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
- ^ 2005 Silver Circle from the Suncoast Chapter website
- ^ Co-Anchor of ‘Nightly Business Report’ to Depart, a May 2009 blog entry from The New York Times Media Decoder blog
- ^ http://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/?p=11542
- ^ The Finns in America from a Library of Congress website
- ^ ULS License - Amateur License - W4LAA - KANGAS, PAUL H
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