Background
Doane, the son of former Massachusetts Republican State Senator Paul Doane, was born and raised in Harwich, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod.
television journalist State Senator
Doane, the son of former Massachusetts Republican State Senator Paul Doane, was born and raised in Harwich, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod.
He graduated from Harwich High School in 1996 and then went on to the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication in 2000, and was hired by WNYW, New York City"s Fox affiliate, as a field producer.
Channel One News, the high school television network, then made him a news anchor, sending him abroad to cover stories in San Salvador, Indonesia, Afghanistan, and the Sudan. In April 2006 Cable News Network hired Doane as a special video news correspondent for South Asia, including India. He remained with Cable News Network, based in New Delhi, until June 2007.
In August 2007, Doane became a national correspondent for Columbia Broadcasting System News, covering a wide range of domestic issues.
In 2008 he began reporting on the effects of the economic recession in a series of stories about individual people and families called, "The Other America" — a phrase that harkens back to the noted book of that name by Michael Harrington, about American poverty in the 1960s. Doane is also a frequent correspondent for Columbia Broadcasting System News Sunday Morning.
Since April 2013, Doane has been based in Beijing, China, covering events in Asia for Columbia Broadcasting System News. On September 6, 2014, Doane married Andrea Pastorelli in a same-sex civil ceremony in Arezzo, Italy at the Villa Rosa Badia Di Campoleone.