David Wright is a veteran TV, radio, and digital reporter who has contributed stories to Rhode Island PBS Weekly since 2021 and more recently joined the Public’s Radio team.
For more than 20 years, David was a correspondent at ABC News. Career highlights include serving as a White House reporter during President Trump’s first term, traveling press during the 2008 Presidential race, traveling with the pope through 4 continents, covering the Vatican and the Catholic Church during 3 different popes, and reporting from numerous global conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, and Gaza.
Past interviews include Donald Trump, Barack Obama, John McCain, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk. David won a New England Emmy and a NETA award in 2023 for a story he did for Rhode Island PBS Weekly. Other awards include several national Emmy and Murrow Awards, plus a Peabody, a DuPont, and an Overseas Press Club award. He began his career in public radio as a reporter at WBUR and KQED, where he hosted The California Report broadcast statewide. A native of Buffalo, he is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford. He met his wife Victoria when they were both covering the 2005 papal conclave in Rome. They have 3 teenage daughters and a German Shepherd Dog.
