David Wright

Senior Reporter

David Wright is a veteran TV, radio, and digital reporter who recently joined the Ocean State Media team.

For more than 20 years, David was a correspondent at ABC News. He was a White House correspondent during President Trump’s first term, covered major elections in the US and abroad, reported extensively from the Vatican, and reported from numerous war zones, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, Darfur, Lebanon and Gaza.

David won a New England Emmy Award for a 2023 story he did for Rhode Island PBS Weekly. He has won numerous national awards, including a Peabody, a DuPont, and several national Emmy and Murrow Awards. He began his career as a reporter at WBUR and KQED, where he hosted The California Report broadcast statewide.

A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, David 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.

Recently published
President Trump’s crackdown on campus protesters reflects longstanding fault lines in American politics
Faced with a barrage of attacks on a number of different fronts, Brown students wonder why the university isn’t taking a more public stance in opposition to Trump
Members of the state’s congressional delegation warn likely cuts could be devastating
The National Endowment for the Arts is coming under fire from the American Civil Liberties Union in Rhode Island
‘Rhode Island will lose. American consumers will lose. And American businesses will lose’