David Brody is an Emmy Award winning 20 year veteran news journalist who has interviewed many prominent national figures during the course of his career. Currently, David covers The White House and the Obama administration. In 2008, he followed the 2008 Presidential race.
His recent one on one interviews have crossed the ideological spectrum. They include presidential candidates, Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, John Edwards, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Tom Delay, Al Franken, and many others.
David’s political blog, The Brody File, has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. David is also a regular CNN contributor and a frequent roundtable panelist on NBC’s Meet The Press and ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Throughout the years, David has covered several important news events, including the 2008 Presidential debate, the Virginia Tech Massacre, the 2006 midterm elections, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the 2004 Democratic and Republican conventions, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and the 1996 Olympics. He has also traveled to Kaktovik, Alaska, to cover the story of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He’s also been down to Mexico and Yuma, Arizona where he rode along with U.S. Border Patrol to detail the nation’s immigration crisis.
David has worked as News Director at ABC affiliate KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs, Colo., and has produced special projects, stories, and shows in the major markets of Washington D.C. (WUSA-TV) and Denver (KUSA-TV). David won an Emmy Award, as well, for producing the top newscast in Colorado Springs in 1989.
David was raised in New York City, and graduated with a B.S. in Communications from Ithaca College in 1988. He's married with three children.