Michele Marsh (reporter)

Michele Marie Marsh (March 9, 1954 – October 17, 2017) was an American broadcast journalist, best known for her work at two network-owned television stations in New York City from 1979 to 2003.

She graduated from Grossmont High School in El Cajon, California,[4] and later from Northwestern University, where she majored in what has been described as radio and television production[5] or theater.

[10] In August 1979, Marsh began working at WCBS-TV in New York City as a reporter and then as co-anchor of the Saturday night editions of Channel 2 News.

[1][12] In January 1981, Marsh was demoted from her anchor position to make way for her predecessor Dave Marash, who was rehired by WCBS-TV after a stint at ABC News.

[14] Marsh was one of several personalities abruptly fired by WCBS-TV in October 1996 as part of a management-ordered shakeup of the station's news department due to declining ratings.

After their divorce, she married the French oceanographer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, with whom she had two daughters, Chloe and Sidonie, and another son, Julian.