Joel Connable (February 5, 1973 – November 6, 2012) was an American television host, news anchor, and reporter for KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington.
Connable also anchored and reported the news for CBS in Los Angeles and South Carolina as well as for MSNBC and Early Today, on NBC.
While at high school, he won second prize in the Martin Luther King Jr. Heritage Project Essay Contest at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
[2] Joel attended University of Southern California, studying broadcast journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication.
Connable's first broadcasting job was as a newscaster with CBS affiliate WLTX in Columbia, South Carolina, doing a segment called the Restaurant Report Card in South Carolina, where he reported the state health inspection scores of restaurants across the state.
He spent three years there as a reporter and then in 2005, Connable moved to WTVJ, the NBC affiliate in Miami as the evening news anchor.
He was named as Volunteer of the Year by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in 2005 for his work to help find a cure to the disease.
On November 6, 2012, it was reported that Connable had died, supposedly due to a seizure brought on by a malfunctioning diabetes pump machine.