George Bauer is an award-winning journalist with more than three decades of experience encompassing local, national and international broadcast news. Over the course of his career, he has worked as a producer, reporter, editor, anchor and news director. A longtime travel aficionado, Bauer has traveled widely in the United States and overseas.
Bauer began his career in broadcast journalism in 1970, working as a news anchor and reporter at WGBH-TV/FM in Boston. In 1972, he became a news anchor and reporter for National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. The following year, his career took him to London, where he worked as a producer/reporter on television and radio news projects for the BBC. Following his return to the United States, Bauer became a news editor and reporter for Associated Press Radio in Washington, D.C.
In 1979, Bauer joined the staff of KUAT-TV/AM/FM in Tucson, Arizona, as the station’s radio news director, subsequently serving as anchor and managing editor of KUAT-TV’s nightly newscast. From 1988 to 1990, he was host, field reporter and senior producer of Viewpoint, the weekly public affairs series of WOSU-TV in Columbus, Ohio. In 1990, Bauer became anchor and news director of the WLIW-TV/Long Island nightly newscast.
From 1991 to 1997, Bauer was newscast anchor for The Monitor Channel, also serving as reporter and editor on Monitor Radio’s award-winning Money and Politics series. During that time, he also worked as a field producer for CBS News’ The Osgood File.
From August 1997 to October 2004, Bauer was a news editor, TV package reporter and supervising producer for CNN, first in New York, then at CNN Center in Atlanta.
Among the many broadcast journalism awards Bauer has earned are the Arizona Press Club Award, the Associated Press Award, the Rocky Mountain Regional Emmy Award, the Long Island Press Club Award, the Ohio State Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award and the Radio Programming & Promotion Award from the New York Festivals.
Also an accomplished educator, Bauer has taught television and radio courses at institutions including the University of Arizona, Ohio State University and Northeastern University.
Bauer caught the travel bug at age 14, when he took his first airplane flight from New York to Lexington, Kentucky, for a reunion with a former classmate. Since then, Bauer has visited 49 of the 50 states and has lived in a dozen states and the District of Columbia, as well as in London. He has traveled extensively overseas.
As part of his preparation for The Seasoned Traveler, Bauer read the journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. He considers the explorers and their team America’s first “Seasoned Travelers” and credits them as a source of inspiration for the television series.
Bauer lives in Carrollton, Georgia, with his wife Susan, whom he met while both were working at the BBC in London, and with their Siamese cat Tyler. The couple has a daughter, Lisa, who (not surprisingly) loves to travel.
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