Charles Bierbauer was CNN’s senior Washington correspondent and a veteran reporter covering national and international affairs. He reported on five presidential campaigns and served as CNN’s senior White House correspondent for almost a decade during the Reagan and Bush Administrations. He has traveled with American presidents to all 50 states and more than 30 nations. The Cable News Network, more commonly referred to as CNN, is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfeld [1] [2] (although the latter is not currently recognized in CNNs official history). ... Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism. ... A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media. ... United States presidential elections determine who serves as President and Vice President of the United States for four-year terms, starting on Inauguration Day (January 20th of the year after the election). ... The southern side of the White House The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (1989–1993). ... The President of the United States (often abbreviated POTUS) is the head of state of the United States. ...

Bierbauer became the first dean of the newly merged College of Mass Communications and Information Studies in July 2002. Bierbauer began his career as a radio reporter for WKAP radio in Allentown, Pa., in 1963. But he is no stranger to print journalism, having written for his hometown newspaper The (Allentown) Morning Call. He was a reporter with the Associated Press in Pittsburgh from 1967-68 and a correspondent in Bonn for the Chicago Daily News.

From 1977-81, he was an overseas correspondent for ABC News, first as Moscow Bureau Chief and later as the Bonn Bureau chief. Prior to that, he worked in Philadelphia, London, Bonn and Vienna as a correspondent for Westinghouse Broadcasting.

In 2001 he was reporter and producer for a Discovery Channel documentary on the World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks.

Bierbauer is a graduate of Penn State, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Russian as well as bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism. He remained involved with Penn State as a lecturer and as a member of the College of Communications Board of Visitors and as a member of the alumni association's Communications Advisory Board.

He served as a member of the national Council for Media & Public Affairs at George Washington University and is on the advisory board for the Washington Center for Politics and Journalism.

In 1997, he won an Emmy for anchoring CNN coverage of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. He also is a recipient of the ACE Award from the Association for Cable Excellence and the Overseas Press Club Award for his reporting of the Yom Kippur War.

Dean Bierbauer is married to Susanne Schafer, formerly the Pentagon correspondent for the Associated Press. He has four children and three grandchildren.