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New Brunswick, New Jersey New Brunswick is a city (New Jersey), city in and the county seat of Middlesex County, New Jersey, Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.WCTC-AM (1450), where he hosted a nightly talk show, ''Dave Marash On Call''. He had also been a reporter at WPIX. He did both news and sports reporting for WCBS Newsradio 88 and WNEW-FM in New York City. He subsequently worked at

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in New York. Marash was host of

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's '' Baseball Tonight'' and NBC's '' GrandStand'', which alternated as a

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pregame show or a sports

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, depending on the season. In the early years of the Fox television network, Marash hosted a magazine-style show of science and technology entitled '' Beyond Tomorrow''. He then worked at

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. His last appearance prior to joining Al Jazeera English was on ''

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''. He had anchored newscasts at

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in New York and

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in Washington, D.C., during the mid-1980s. He received

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for his ''

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'' coverage of the

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and for his coverage of the explosion of TWA Flight 800. His May 2001 ''

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'' documentary about singer Eva Cassidy was one of the highlights of his years with the program. Marash garnered considerable attention when he joined

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in January 2006 as the network's Washington, D.C., anchor, thus becoming the de facto American face of the new English-language station. Two years later, in March 2008, he stepped down from his position. Marash explained, "To put it bluntly, the channel that's on now—while excellent, and I plan to be a lifetime viewer—is not the channel that I signed up to do." Specifically, he cited the loss of editorial control and his inability to vouch for content that the network was broadcasting, as reasons for his departure. On February 14, 2011, Marash defended Al Jazeera English on the '' O'Reilly Factor'' on Fox News against claims by Bill O'Reilly that Al Jazeera was anti-American. He joined

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, public radio station KSFR-FM 101.1 in March 2014 as co–news director. Since September 2014, he has hosted the radio show and podcast ''Here & There'': a four-times-weekly series of 50-minute news interviews.

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"Hope for the Hirsute"
time.com, July 6, 1970; accessed October 17, 2014.
Profile
msnbc.msn.com; accessed October 17, 2014.

by Menachem Wecker, '' Jewish Currents'', May 2007, which quotes Marash

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