David Wright
Senior ReporterDavid 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. dwright@oceanstatemedia.org
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As Rhode Island Energy seeks a 15% rate hike, thousands of customers face shutoff notices -
Organizers say Bristol’s Independence Day celebration is America’s oldest, a tradition nearly as old as the nation itself -
Newport entered the war as one of North America’s great ports. By the end, Providence was on the rise
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A new state report lays out the numbers behind a familiar problem: fewer doctors, longer waits and growing barriers to care -
DEM crews are conducting prescribed burns across the state as hotter, drier conditions increase wildfire risk in New England -
The grant money will fund 26 medical research projects with grants capped at $25,000 -
Meanwhile, the undocumented immigrant suspected of murder at the center of the dispute remains at large -
U.S. District Court judge Melissa DuBose accused lawyer Kevin Bolan of hiding the criminal record of an undocumented immigrant -
As Woonsocket’s incinerator winds down, Rhode Island must decide where its “biosolids” go next -
Based in East Greenwich, Dewetron specializes in high-tech measurement equipment
