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
Rhode Island celebrates the arrival of spring with the tradition of May Breakfasts. The oldest, at Cranston’s Oaklawn Community Baptist Church, has been going strong for 156 years
But Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha calls the governor’s plan “half-baked”
Activists and local officials demand answers after federal agents allegedly used a taser during an apprehension in Dexter Park and transferred the injured man without allowing him to speak to a lawyer
The measure, introduced by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Seth Magaziner, is unlikely to succeed in the Republican-controlled Congress
Local Catholics reflect on the death of Pope Francis and the legacy he leaves behind here in Rhode Island