Nightline: Dave Marash Bio

— -- Dave Marash has contributed reports to ABCNEWS Nightline since the summer of 1989.

Since 1992, Marash has filed a series of reports on the wars in the former Yugoslavia, including stories that predicted the arrival of guerrilla fighting in the province of Kosovo. His reporting on this subject has been highly acclaimed, winning Marash an Emmy Award in 1994.

Marash has also received Emmy Awards for his Nightline coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing and for his coverage of the explosion of TWA Flight 800.

Marash has reported extensively from Kosovo and on Kosovar refugees in Albania and Macedonia. His report on a 13-year-old Kosovar girl injured by a Serb booby-trap produced an outpouring of voluntary contributions, and today the girl, Ibadete Thaqi, is being trained, free of charge, in the use of two new prosthetic legs made for her at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. He also reported a three-broadcast series of reports on AIDS in Zimbabwe. In addition, Marash has also investigated charges of human rights violations against peasants in Burma, living near a natural gas pipeline partially owned by the American Oil Company Unocal.

Marash has filed numerous breaking news stories for Nightline including world exclusive coverage of the Soufriere Hills volcano eruption on the island of Montserrat, the tactics of the tobacco industry’s lawyers and the suicide bombings in Tel Aviv. He has reported on topics as diverse as the failure of the General Motors’ Minority Dealership Development Program, Texaco’s despoliation of the environment of the Upper Amazon, the 100th anniversary of the Boston Marathon, baseball great Mark McGwire’s recordbreaking homerun season, the 70th anniversary of gospel legends the Dixie Hummingbirds and the controversial issue of immigration.

His report on jazz singer Eva Cassidy in 2001 won widespread acclaim.

Reporting Outside of Nightline

During the 1990 baseball season, Marash also anchored Baseball Tonight for ESPN.