Doug Kriegel

Doug Kriegel is a general assignment reporter for NBC4's "Channel 4 News." He was the first Los Angeles newsperson to report live from New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Kriegel spent three weeks at the scene in New York providing daily updates on the World

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Doug Kriegel is a general assignment reporter for NBC4's "Channel 4 News." He was the first Los Angeles newsperson to report live from New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Kriegel spent three weeks at the scene in New York providing daily updates on the World Trade Center situation and its aftermath.

Kriegel joined NBC4 Los Angeles in 1978 as state capital correspondent and Sacramento Bureau Chief. His special series on "Lobbyists in Sacramento" was the first behind-the-scenes look that any television station had done on lobbying in the state capitol.

In 1985, Kriegel was named "Money Editor" and did a nightly segment on the top rated "Channel 4 News" at 6PM. The segment covered breaking economic news, money tips, consumer fraud, the California real estate market, restaurant reports and entertainment industry stories.

As a general assignment reporter for Channel 4, Kriegel has won several awards. In 1986 he won a Golden Mike Award and a Los Angeles Press Club Award for best news reporting for a series that examined special effects used in the movie industry. He was honored with a Los Angeles area Emmy Award for the 1983 news series, "Whatever Happened to Real Men." The series also landed an Associated Press Award for television reporting, best feature in California and the Los Angeles Press Club Award for excellence in television reporting.

Prior to joining NBC4, Kriegel was a general assignment reporter at KIRO-TV News in Seattle, Washington. From 1970 to 1977, he was state capital correspondent for KXTV News in Sacramento. His duties also included producing "Capital Comment," a weekly half-hour program featuring California political news.

Before he became a television news reporter, Kriegel was an economist and stock market analyst at Lord Abbett and Company on Wall Street.

Kriegel has a masters degree in economics from the University of Stockholm and a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. At Columbia, Kriegel won a fellowship for economics news reporting. He also speaks Swedish fluently.