About

Kane Farabaugh is an Emmy®-award-winning multimedia journalist, documentary filmmaker, writer, and digital content producer. He serves as the Midwest Bureau Chief for Voice of America, where he has spent more than three decades covering stories that range from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, from U.S. presidential elections to the Olympic Games.

Farabaugh began his career as a military broadcast journalist in Korea and Japan before moving into on-air television reporting in Rockford, Illinois; Tampa, Florida; Bakersfield, California; Charleston, West Virginia; and Syracuse, New York. He later served as Director of Special Projects for the American Forces Network Europe in Germany, managing long-form television production.

Today, Farabaugh reports on the stories shaping the American Midwest — from immigration and agriculture to politics and the economy — bringing three decades of field experience to every story he tells.