Don Dahler

Don Dahler (born 1960) is an American journalist and writer. Dahler was employed by WCBS-TV in New York, where he was an anchor and reporter. Dahler is currently a correspondent for CBS News.

Dahler joined ABC News in September 1999 as a National Correspondent for Good Morning America. Since then, he has filed reports for all programs at ABC, including Nightline, Primetime, 20/20 Downtown, Good Morning America and World News Tonight. He has travelled to Kosovo for war coverage and to Afghanistan and Iraq for the same reason. He was embedded with the 101st Airborne during the initial invasion, and has returned for three other embeds with U.S. troops.

Dahler reported on the Columbine shootings in his native Colorado. On September 11th, 2001, Dahler was the first network correspondent on the scene of the attack on the World Trade Center, reporting live via telephone from his apartment just blocks away a few moments after the first plane hit the towers and later filing the first report of the South Tower's collapse mere seconds after it occurred. Two weeks later, he was one of the first American journalists travelling to Afghanistan before the U.S. began its bombing campaign against the Taliban. In 2002, he became one of the first journalists from this country, along with a team from Nightline, to successfully cross the Syrian border into northern Iraq prior to the Iraq War in more than a decade.

According to his biography, Dahler's first reporting gig was at WGHP-TV in High Point, North Carolina in 1982. He reported there for only three years. He got his start reporting as an unpaid intern for KENS-TV in San Antonio.

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