Career
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Kangas entered the United States Coast Guard in the early 1960s and served aboard the USCG Cutter Mackinaw. Later, he served as aide to the admiral in command of the 9th Coast Guard District in Cleveland, Ohio. Kangas completed his Coast Guard service in 1963 as a Lieutenant (junior grade).
Kangas earned his broker's license after studying at the New York University Stern School of Business. While a stock broker, Kangas began his career as a broadcaster at WINZ, a CBS Radio affiliate in Miami owned by his biggest client.
Kangas joined Nightly Business Report in 1979; in 2003, his "Stocks in the News" segment earned a Financial Writers and Editors Award from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In 2005, he won a Suncoast Chapter Silver Circle Award. Kangas retired as co-anchor of the Nightly Business Report at the end of 2009.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Business & Financial Reporting to Paul Kangas and Linda O’Bryon, the latter the founder of NBR and now chief content officer of Northern California Public Broadcasting.
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