Ed Garsten

Current position:
Manager, Electronic Communications, the Chrysler Group. Launched Chrysler Group media blog, TheFirehouse.biz in Sept. 2005.

Previous:
2002—2005 Automotive Reporter, The Detroit News, primarily covering GM and Delphi.
2001—2002 National Auto Writer, The Associated Press
1981—2001 Worked at CNN as correspondent and producer..last 12 years was Detroit Bureau Chief and correspondent. Left network when bureau was closed down as part of the Time Warner-AOL merger.
1979—1981 Reporter, KGUN-TV, Tucson, Arizona
1973—1979 Various positions at radio stations in Central New York State and Tucson, Arizona.

MA-Journalism, 1980, University of Arizona
BA-Radio/TV, 1973, State University of NY at Oswego

Awards: Named as part of CNN’s Emmy-award winning coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. Covered the siege at the James Nichols farm.
Contributed to The Detroit News’s award-winning coverage of the Ford Centennial and UAW-Big 3 contract talks, 2003.

Other highlights, aside from auto industry coverage:
Covered Pete Rose banishment from baseball
Many major plane crashes
Hurricane Andrew
1989 San Francisco earthquake
1997 Red River floods in North Dakota
Dr. Kevorkian/assisted suicide saga
Jim/Tammy Bakker-PTL scandal

Personal: Married to Susan since Sept, 1973. Two children, Greg, 22, Laura, 18.

Originally from New York City. Parents live in West Palm Beach area of Florida. Brother, a doctor, lives in Connecticut.