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A leader in the world of business and financial news reporting,
Shellie Karabell is one of the industry's most respected broadcasters.
As one of the first women to define the standards of economic journalism
in the 1980's, Shellie is a pioneer and has been providing viewers with
seasoned perspective and groundbreaking interviews on global financial
news for more than 35 years. Currently, Shellie runs her own production company,
Sunshine Media & Communications, LLC. which produces the
Desert Cities Business Report seen and heard world wide on the FADVideo.Tv internet-work, Palm Springs radio KNews, and on Time Warner Cable. Shellie's career began as a producer in her home state of Pennsylvania at WITF-TV. She also held management and production postions at WGBH-TV/Boston and WHYY-TV/Philadelphia before joining CBS owned and operated WCAU, and from there ABC News |  |
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in New York. In 1981, she was hired as Business Week Correspondent
for ABC's Satellite News Channel, launching a passion for covering business, politics,
commerce and often-complicated foreign markets and economies.
Best known for her coverage of the former Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, Karabell spent more than 20 years in Europe working for PBS, ABC and CNBC. She served as Moscow Bureau Chief for ABC/Worldwide Television News in the late nineties, the culmination of reporting there dating back to 1986. During her 20-years working as a journalist in Europe, she has covered such news events as the Iranian hostage crisis, Beirut civil war, Pan Am 103, Middle East terrorism and political affairs in the Middle East, as well as elections, lifestyle and current events in every European capital. In 1999 she began a five-year assignment for CNBC as the network's Paris Bureau Chief. In addition to her broadcast career, Shellie is an accomplished writer and gifted public speaker. She has a passion for music and dance, being an amateur practitioner in both, and holds a BA degree in English from Penn State University, with masters work in Russian history and humanities at New York University. She has won several regional Associated Press Awards for editorial excellence and received the bronze medal from Sigma Delta Chi, the association of professional journalists, for her series on learning disabilities produced in Philadelphia. With a daughter and grandson in Southern California, she has been a full-time resident of Palm Springs since leaving Paris in 2004. In November of that year, she created the Desert Cities Business Report, a compelling half-hour program covering Coachella Valley business news which is now in its fifth season and is a favorite with local viewers and business advertisers. | |
