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Paul Kangas
Paul Kangas
Born	Houghton, Michigan
Education	University of Michigan
Occupation	Business broadcaster
Ethnicity	Finnish American
Notable credit(s)	Co-anchor of Nightly Business Report

Paul Kangas is the Miami-based co-anchor of the PBS television program Nightly Business Report, a role he has held since 1979, when the show was a local PBS program in Miami.

[edit] Career

After graduating from the University of Michigan, Kangas entered the United States Coast Guard in the early 1960s and served aboard the USCG Cutter Mackinaw.^{[citation needed]} Later, he served as aide to the admiral in command of the 9th Coast Guard District in Cleveland, Ohio.^{[citation needed]} Kangas completed his Coast Guard service in 1963 as a Lieutenant (junior grade).

Kangas earned his brokers license after studying at the New York University Stern School of Business.^[1] While a stock broker, Kangas began his career as a broadcaster at WINZ, a CBS Radio affiliate in Miami owned by his biggest client.^[1]

Kangas joined Nightly Business Report in 1979; in 2003, his "Stocks in the News" segment earned a Financial Writers and Editors Award from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.^[1] In 2005, he won a Suncoast Chapter Silver Circle Award.^[2] Kangas will retire as co-anchor of the Nightly Business Report by the end of 2009.^[3]

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will present the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Business & Financial Reporting to Paul Kangas and Linda O’Bryon, the latter the founder of NBR and now chief content officer of Northern California Public Broadcasting.^[4]

[edit] Personal life

Kangas was born in Houghton, Michigan in 1937^{[citation needed]}, and is of Finnish descent.^[5] His younger sibling is Ron Kangas, a Vice President at Living Stream Ministry.^{[citation needed]}

Paul is also an amateur radio operator with the callsign W4LAA.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c "About Paul Kangas". http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/about/bio/kangas/. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
^ 2005 Silver Circle from the Suncoast Chapter website
^ Co-Anchor of ‘Nightly Business Report’ to Depart, a May 2009 blog entry from The New York Times Media Decoder blog
^ http://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/?p=11542
^ The Finns in America from a Library of Congress website

[about-0] "About Paul Kangas". http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/about/bio/kangas/. Retrieved 2009-08-06.

[1] 2005 Silver Circle from the Suncoast Chapter website

[2] Co-Anchor of ‘Nightly Business Report’ to Depart, a May 2009 blog entry from The New York Times Media Decoder blog

[3] ttp://weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkingbiznews/?p=11542

[4] The Finns in America from a Library of Congress website

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