Doug Rohrbeck at the site of the Jan. 19 Republican Presidential Debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., sponsored by Fox News.
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DRIVEN BY Doug Rohrbeck ’97 had just returned home from a gym workout, when he heard the sound of a door swinging shut. He thought someone had barged into his Arlington, Va. apartment. Quickly, he figured out that about a mile away, a plane had slammed into the Pentagon. Though it was his day off as a producer at Fox News Channel (FNC), Rohrbeck hopped on his bike — traffic was bad and roads were closed — rode to the Pentagon and found a Fox camera crew shooting the disaster. He threw the videotape into his bag and took off by bike to the cable television network’s offices near the U.S. Capitol. The footage was on air in minutes. Rohrbeck spent the rest of that historic day, Sept. 11, 2001, biking from news conference to news conference on Capitol Hill and calling Fox’s newsroom with information that anchors would broadcast to the nation. It was one of the defining moments in Rohrbeck’s career. And it reflects the
DOUG ROHRBECK ’97 PRODUCES FOX NEWS’ “SPECIAL REPORT.”
Rohrbeck, seated next to “Special Report” host Bret Baier (in dark suit), at a morning staff meeting in May.