Kane Farabaugh is a multi-Emmy® award-winning broadcast journalist, documentary filmmaker, and writer. He is a proficient "one-man band" video producer and non-linear editor, managing multiple projects across various broadcast, digital, and social media platforms. He is also an experienced board member and fundraiser for non-profit organizations. In a career spanning four decades, Farabaugh covered the 9/11 attacks, war in Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. elections, the Olympics, and other major events during that time. He has interviewed leaders including Polish President Lech Walesa and U.S. president George W. Bush, and his 2019 interview with Jimmy Carter, one of the former president’s last appearances, was nominated for an Emmy.As Midwest Correspondent for VOA, Farabaugh’s reporting on the U.S. / China trade war received a 2019 National Headliner Award and his profile of his friendship with former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter received a 2023 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award.Farabaugh’s career began as a U.S. Air Force broadcaster in Korea and Japan, later working as an anchor / reporter / host for TV newsrooms across the country.As Director of Special Projects for the American Forces Network Europe based in Germany, Farabaugh managed complex television projects including coverage of military operations in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. He was honored as the 2002 U.S. Army Civilian Broadcast Journalist of the Year, and was twice awarded the Civilian Service Commendation Medal.Farabaugh also writes, creates, and directs original television programming, including the five-part PBS documentary series “A Golden Cross to Bear: A Story of the 33rd Division in World War 1” which earned two Emmy® Awards with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Midwest Chapter. It's the fourth Emmy® for his company KaneStar Productions.Farabaugh has received over 25 Emmy® nominations, is a recipient of RTDNA Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, AP Awards, Clarion Awards, Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Awards, Religion News Association, RIAS Media Prize, Society of Professional Journalists, and New York Festivals Awards among numerous others. He is a recipient of the RTDNA Vada and Barney Oldfield National Security Reporting Fellowship, and is a graduate of the RIAS Berlin Commission German American Journalist Exchange Program.He has appeared on History Channel’s “Pawn Stars,” is a member of Rotary, serves on the board of his local YMCA, and is a 2020 Ottawa Township High School Hall of Fame inductee.
Listed skills include Journalism, Broadcast Journalism, Storytelling, Broadcast, and 45 others.