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
An independent disciplinary process at Brown University has exonerated an undergraduate accused of violating campus policies with a DOGE-inspired stunt
New bill would prohibit all internet-connected devices in public schools starting in August, with exceptions for medical and educational needs—though the measure still faces hurdles in the House
Many thought they’d never see an American pope, including representatives of the Diocese of Providence who were there to witness it
Facing a $34 million budget deficit and a student body half the size it was in 2011, the Providence-based university says layoffs—mostly at its flagship campus—are needed to stabilize finances
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