Rich Newberg

Rich Newberg (born 1947) is the Senior Correspondent for News 4 Buffalo, WIVB-TV. He joined the CBS affiliate in 1978 as a weekend anchorman, having remained in Buffalo ever since. Newberg later became an anchor for the five and 11 p.m. newscasts. Newberg was named Senior Correspondent in 1999; his current work load includes working as a reporter and occasionally as a fill-in anchor.
He serves as a regional vice president of the New York Chapter of the National Television Academy.
Documentaries and long-form features
Newberg has found a niche creating news documentaries although none recently due to station staffing cuts.
Newberg, who is Jewish, considers his work on Holocaust survivors his most important contribution as a broadcast journalist. He and Chief Photographer Mike Mombrea documented a reunion of Jewish survivors who returned to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German occupied Poland, confronting their lost childhood. Lost Childhood: The Story of the Birkenau Boys is being distributed nationally.
Newberg and Mombrea also met Pope John Paul II in Poland and produced an hour special on the pontiff’s life. Newberg had first met the pope in 1985 after covering Solidarity’s struggle for freedom in Poland. In 1990 Newberg traveled to the Persian Gulf covering Air Force reservists from Niagara Falls preparing for war. Other special assignments for News 4 Buffalo have taken him to China, Japan, Panama, and Cuba.
Career
Newberg started his career as a TV News Troubleshooter, helping viewers solve problems that seemed insurmountable to them. Newberg worked at ABC affiliates in Syracuse and Rochester, and the NBC owned and operated station in Chicago.
Newberg received a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Arts from Ithaca College, and a Master of Arts degree in News and Public Affairs from Michigan State University. M.S.U. honored Newberg in 2005 with its Distinguished Alumni Award.

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