Charles Bierbauer, longtime CNN correspondent and journalism dean, dies at age 83

Source: AP

Updated 6:05 PM EDT, August 31, 2025


CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Charles Bierbauer, former CNN correspondent and a past president of the White House Correspondents Association who later became dean of the University of South Carolina’s journalism program, has died. He was 83.

Bierbauer died Friday at his home in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, where he had been living in retirement, according to university spokesman Jeff Stensland. No direct cause was given, but the family’s obituary said “his generous heart gave out after a good, long life.”

Bierbauer’s journalism career began in his native Pennsylvania, where early on he was a weekend reporter for media outlet WKAP. After a year as a reporter for The Associated Press in Pittsburgh, Bierbauer worked for several other outlets, winning an Overseas Press Club Award in 1973 for his reporting on the Yom Kippur War.

According to his family, Bierbauer was once detained in Moscow’s Red Square while filming an anti-Soviet demonstration. While covering Muhammed Ali’s 1978 travels in the Soviet Union, Bierbauer was denounced by the Soviet press for “asking impertinent questions.”

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