The longest-running primetime program in NBC history, Dateline NBC, employs Josh Mankiewicz as a correspondent. Since joining the newsmagazine in February 1995, he has contributed a variety of breaking news, investigative, and news analysis pieces to the broadcast. Mankiewicz has covered the top four podcasts since 2020, including Mortal Sin, Motive for Murder, Internal Affairs, and Missing in America.
Mankiewicz has covered a wide range of topics for the newsmagazine, including as the Jon Benet Ramsey inquiry, the Jonestown massacre, and the 25th anniversary of the O.J. Simpson rodeo chase. Dateline became the first network news program to tackle the contentious topic when Mankiewicz pushed for an investigation into how television news covers high-profile missing person cases and how race influences story choices. He also participated in Dateline’s induction into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2019.
Mankiewicz worked as a correspondent for Fox Broadcasting Company’s newsmagazine Front Page before joining Dateline. Mankiewicz worked as a political reporter for KCAL-TV in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1993 before to joining Fox Broadcasting. There, he reported on state and municipal politics as well as every election.
Additionally, from 1986 to 1991, Mankiewicz covered municipal, state, and national elections as a political correspondent for WCBS-TV in New York. He regularly contributed to the station’s Sunday Edition, a weekly political magazine show, when he was there.
Mankiewicz worked as an ABC News correspondent from 1982 to 1986. He covered 11 southern states for all network programs between 1983 and 1986. He also often contributed to ABC Weekend News, This Week with David Brinkley, and Good Morning America. Prior to 1983, he worked for the network, covering Miami and south Florida. He was also sent to Beirut, Israel, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. He worked as a reportorial producer at the ABC News Washington bureau from 1977 to 1980, covering Capitol Hill with a focus on the House of Representatives. Additionally, he traveled with and covered the Kennedy, Connally, and Mondale campaigns in 1980.
In addition to covering the repatriation of American hostages, the closure of the Washington Star, and the Washington Post/Janet Cooke Pulitzer Prize controversy, Mankiewicz worked as a political reporter for WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., from 1980 to 1982.
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