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
The FBI announced a $50,000 reward for information
Rhode Island mass transit planners are soliciting public input on major projects to undertake in the coming years. RIDOT’s online survey closes today
The Justice Department wants the federal courts to force the state to hand over detailed voter information ahead of midterm elections
Researchers at URI and the state Department of Environmental Management to spend five years on a comprehensive study of Rhode Island’s wild turkey population
The closures are the latest in what is expected to be a wave of parish consolidations across Rhode Island