David Wright Biography

David Wright is a Canadian-American journalist working for Ocean State Media as a senior reporter since he was promoted in July 2025. He joined the Ocean State Media team in April 2021 as a freelance contributing reporter. Previously, he was a storytelling coach for Scripps, where he worked with local reporters at Scripps stations to help bring their stories more impact.

David Wright Education

Wright joined Harvard University after finishing his education at Williamsville East High School. He later graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree. He furthered his studies at Merton College, Oxford, where he obtained his Master’s degree in Philosophy. There, he participated in the Merton College and Nigellian Table.

David Wright Career

Wright works for Ocean State Media as a senior reporter. He was promoted to that role in July 2025 after spending over 4 years as a freelance contributing reporter. He earned a New England Emmy Award for a 2023 story he did for Rhode Island PBS Weekly. H

Wright previously was a storytelling coach for Scripps, where he worked with local reporters at Scripps stations to help bring their stories more impact. He also spent a year as an adjunct professor at Champlain College. Before that, he spent over 2 decades as a correspondent at ABC News. Before working for ABC, he worked as a reporter and substitute anchor for KRON, then the NBC affiliate in the Bay Area.

Wright kick-started his journalism career in public radio as a reporter and anchor at WBUR-Boston and KQED-San Francisco. There, he hosted “The California Report, “an award-winning” an award-winning statewide broadcast. He was also a frequent national contributor to NPR. Over the course of his career, he has received many national awards, including a DuPont, a Peabody, and multiple national Emmy and Murrow Awards.

David Wright ABC NEWS

Wright is best known for his work with ABC NEWS, where he spent over 2 decades as a correspondent. His work appeared on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, Nightline, and other ABC News platforms. Based in New York, he reported to ABC News President James Goldston.

Wright served as Nightline’s lead political reporter during the 2016 presidential campaign. Though he was based in New York, he traveled nearly weekly to help the network’s White House team broadcast the Trump administration. While at ABC NEWS, he traveled the world and broadcast major news events in the U.S. and abroad.

Wright has filed reports from six continents, broadcast two papal transitions, and interviewed six U.S. presidents. In addition, he was at the forefront of revolutions, natural disasters, humanitarian crises, wars, nuclear meltdowns, and terror attacks. Moreover, he has profiled Hollywood stars and interviewed leading tech entrepreneurs, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

During his time as a foreign correspondent, Wright delivered extensive reports from conflict zones. In 2014, he filed reports from Gaza at the peak of the Israeli bombardment. He was in Beirut hours before the IDF bombed the airport during Israel’s 2006 war with Lebanon, staying there during the conflict.

Wright has been to Iraq more than a dozen times, from before the U.S. invasion to the surge. His reports from Baghdad and Fallujah were part of ABC’s “Where Things Stand” project, which earned a 2004 Emmy Award. He delivered extensive coverage from Afghanistan, which was cited by the judges of the George Foster Peabody Awards as part of ABC’s overall coverage of Sept. 11 and its aftermath. He won a 2005 Emmy Award and an Overseas Press Club Award for his report on the Darfur genocide in Sudan.

Wright has also had memorable adventures during his career, including tracking polar bears on the shores of Hudson Bay, hiking the Hindu Kush in the dead of winter after an earthquake, searching remote stretches of the Indian Ocean for a missing Malaysian airliner, and sitting face-to-face with mountain gorillas in Congo.

Wright traveled through Africa and South America with Pope Francis and traveled with Pope Benedict in Europe and the Middle East. He also broadcast Barack Obama’s unforgettable run for the presidency, traveling with Obama for more than half a year. He covered Republican maverick John McCain during the general election in 2008.

Wright frequently had a front-row seat to history, reporting from Kabul the morning the Taliban fell and from New York City the night Donald Trump won the presidency. He was in St. Paul the night Obama became the first African-American to triumph in his party’s nomination for president. He filed live reports from the Vatican the night Pope John Paul II passed away.

Wright was also live in St. Peter’s Square as white smoke declared the election of Pope Benedict XVI. ABC’s papal broadcast won the 2006 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. He joined ABC News in November 2000 as a correspondent in their Los Angeles bureau. Since then, he was posted to London, Washington, and New York.

David Wright Age

Wright was born in 1964 in Buffalo, New York, but has not yet disclosed the year he was born. It is, therefore, not known when he celebrates his birthday. He is 62 years old as of 2026.

David Wright Height

Wright stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 7 inches.

David Wright Family

Wright was born to Deanna and Dr. John Wright in Buffalo, New York. His father is a former professor and dean at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine. Unfortunately, his mother, Deanna, passed away.

David Wright Wife

Wright married Victoria Brannigan, a former Sky News producer, in 2005 in a Roman Catholic ceremony at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere. The pair met in Rome while they were broadcasting the funeral of Pope John Paul II. They have three daughters and live in New York.

David Wright Net Worth

Wright has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 million – $5 million, which he has earned through being a journalist.

David Wright Salary

Wright earns an annual salary ranging between $40,000 – $ 110,500.