Alex Paen Biography

Fast Facts

• Received two Golden Mike awards for investigative reporting from the Southern California Radio and Television News Association
• Won an Associated Press award for his reporting on the Gulf War
• Started his career as a journalist in 1975 working for KMPC Radio
• As a journalist, he specializes in international news and was the first to receive a recorded message from an American hostage during the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran
• Has reported on such historical news as the desegregation of schools, the Los Angeles Hillside Strangler case, the civil war in El Salvador and the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II
• Publishes an international television program magazine called "The Telco Report․"
• Wrote an account of his experiences in Iran called "Love from America․"