Conan Nolan
Conan Nolan is a general assignment reporter for NBC4’s "Channel 4 News" and co-host of “News Conference,” the station’s Sunday morning Public Affairs program.
Updated 7:51 PM PST, Tue, Jul 28, 2009
Conan Nolan is a general assignment reporter for NBC4’s "Channel 4 News" and co-host of “News Conference,” the station’s Sunday morning Public Affairs program.
Since joining the station in July 1986, Nolan has covered numerous important stories and currently covers local and state politics, including the 2006 Campaign for California Governor.
Nolan has been reporting on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first term in office since the historic recall election in 2003 that included following the Governor on overseas trips to Israel and Japan.
Additional foreign assignments included reporting from Kuwait and Iraq while covering “Operation Iraqi Freedom” for both NBC4 and the NBC network. Nolan has also filed stories from Beirut, Lebanon while reporting on the Arab world’s view of the September 11 anniversary.
Nolan won an Emmy award for his reports from the Pakistani frontier on the U.S. led campaign to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. He was also in Rome for the selection of a new Pope after the death of Pope John Paul II.
Nolan received a Golden Mike Award for a special report he did on the tiny South Pacific Island of Tuvalu which claims to be sinking due to global warming.
From Columbine … to the “Unabomber,” to driving in front of O.J. Simpson during LA’s most famous freeway chase, Nolan has had a front row seat for some of the most important stories of the past 20 years. He was also a main reporter during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Prior to joining NBC4 Los Angeles, he was a general assignment reporter at KSBW-TV, the NBC affiliate in Salinas, California. In 1981, he worked as a news reporter and weekend sports anchor for KSBY-TV in San Luis Obispo. Prior to that, he served as the assistant news director for KVEC-AM radio and political reporter for KCBX-FM radio also in San Luis Obispo.
Nolan has a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of California-Davis. He grew up on a ranch in Los Osos Valley along California’s central coast and attended schools in San Luis Obispo, plus two years of college at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
Nolan, his wife and son live in Glendale.
First Published: Oct 15, 2008 2:41 PM PST
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