Joe Krebs (March 22, 1943 – April 6, 2021) was an American television news reporter who worked for stations in North Carolina, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., the most recent being WRC-TV.
After graduating from law school Krebs served in the United States Navy as an Assistant Public Affairs officer aboard the aircraft carrier, U.S.S.
The first year he was a general assignment reporter in Greensboro with special attention to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and he produced and anchored Sunday newscasts.
Krebs spent his second two years serving as the station's national correspondent and covered the state house, the governor's office, and politics in Raleigh, North Carolina.
From 1980 until his retirement on March 30, 2012, Krebs was the morning anchor for News 4 on NBC owned-and-operated station WRC-TV, located in Washington, D.C.
[5] Krebs received his first Emmy Award for a series of stories he did, titled “Winter on the Chesapeake Bay.” These stories showed the lives of people who work on the Chesapeake Bay, particularly those of oyster farmers, a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker crew clearing the ship channel during one particularly cold winter, and an older man who had been building wooden boats by hand for many years.
[1] In 2000 Krebs was inducted into the Silver Circle of Washington Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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