SHELLIE'S BIO

A leader in the world of business and financial news reporting, Shellie Karabell is one of the industry's most respected broadcasters. As one of the first women to define the standards of economic journalism in the 1980's, Shellie is a pioneer and has been providing viewers with seasoned perspective and groundbreaking interviews on global financial news for more than 35 years. Currently, Shellie produces and hosts the Desert Cities Business Report on Time Warner Cable, Your Money Report on NBC Palm Springs affiliate KMIR and is the financial news reporter for New Home Television airing nationwide. She also runs her own prodction company, Sunshine Media & Communications, LLC.

Shellie's career began as a producer in her home state of Pennsylvania at WITF-TV. She also held management and production postions at WGBH-TV/Boston and WHYY-TV/Philadelphia before joining CBS owned and operated WCAU, and from there ABC News in New York. In 1981, she was hired as Business Week Correspondent for ABC's Satellite News Channel, launching a passion for covering business, politics, commerce and often-complicated foreign markets and economies.

Best known for her coverage of the former Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, Karabell spent more than 20 years in Europe working for PBS, ABC and CNBC. She served as Moscow Bureau Chief for ABC/Worldwide Television News in the late nineties, the culmination of reporting there dating back to 1986. During her 20-years working as a journalist in Europe, she has covered such news events as the Iranian hostage crisis, Beirut civil war, Pan Am 103, Middle East terrorism and political affairs in the Middle East, as well as elections, lifestyle and current events in every European capital. In 1999 she began a five-year assignment for CNBC as the network's Paris Bureau Chief.

In addition to her broadcast career, Shellie is an accomplished writer and gifted public speaker. She has a passion for music and dance, being an amateur practitioner in both, and holds a BA degree in English from Penn State University, with masters work in Russian history and humanities at New York University. She has won several regional Associated Press Awards for editorial excellence and received the bronze mdeal from Sigma Delta Chi, the association of professional journalists, for her series on learning disabilities produced in Philadelphia.

With a daughter and grandson in Southern California, she has been a full-time resident of Palm Springs since leaving Paris in 2004. In November of that year, she created the Desert Cities Business Report, a compelling half-hour program covering Coachella Valley business news. Beginning its fourth season in September, the successful Time Warner cable program is a favorite with local viewers and business advertisers. Shellie also produces and hosts Your Money Report on the NBC Palm Springs affiliate KMIR, runs her own production company, and is will be part of the launch of New Home Television, for which she will anchor and report business and financial news for the nationwide real estate program.

Desert Cities Business Report

About the show

Covering the Coachella Valley's hottest financial topics, the Desert Cities Business Report connects businesses, residents and tourists in an informative, compelling half-hour. In an intimate interview setting, veteran broadcast journalist Shellie Karabell tackles local, regional, national and international issues such as the economy, retirement and portfolio planning, US and international financial markets, health care, media, trade & commerce, real estate, technology and more.

Whether it's a one-on-one interview with a local opinion-maker, an in-depth profile of an entrepreneur or a series on one of the Valley's biggest industrial drivers, Shellie Karabell is an expert on delivering business news and making it relevant. With a career spanning more than three decades years of reporting financial news nationally and internationally, Shellie is an engaging, candid interviewer resulting in some of the best dialogue on television.

The Desert Cities Business Report also takes viewers outside the studio and into some of the Valley's biggest local businesses, conferences, restaurants and trade shows. The program goes on location examining Valley business and financial trends, as well as the people and places at the heart of the most critical local economic decisions.

Find out why the Desert Cities Business Report is the place to turn for local business news. Tune in to Time Warner Cable Channel 10 Fridays at 7:00pm, Saturdays and Sundays at 8:00am, and Tuesdays at 7:30pm.