Kane Farabaugh

Background

About Kane Farabaugh

Kane Farabaugh is an Emmy® award-winning multi-skilled 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. In a career spanning several 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 world leaders including Polish President Lech Walesa and U.S. President George W. Bush, and his 2019 interview with Jimmy Carter was nominated for an Emmy. Farabaugh’s reporting for Voice of America on the U.S./ China trade war received a 2019 National Headliner Award and a 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 an active duty U.S. Air Force military broadcaster in Korea and Japan. He later worked as an anchor / reporter / host in several TV newsrooms across the country including Rockford, IL, Tampa, FL, Bakersfield, CA, Charleston, WV and Syracuse, NY. 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 documentaries through his independent production company KaneStar Productions, including the PBS 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. Farabaugh has received more than 150 professional honors in journalism and broadcasting including Emmy® awards and nominations, RTDNA 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.