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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Meg Kinnard

Charles Bierbauer, longtime CNN correspondent and journalism dean, dies at age 83

Obit Charles Bierbauer - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Charles Bierbauer, former CNN correspondent and a past president of the White House Correspondents Association who later became dean of the University of South Carolina's journalism program, has died. He was 83.

Bierbauer died Friday at his home in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, where he had been living in retirement, according to university spokesman Jeff Stensland. No direct cause was given, but the family's obituary said “his generous heart gave out after a good, long life.”

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