David Freed

David Freed is an American screenwriter, author, and award-winning investigative journalist.

Born: Albany, Georgia

Graduated: Colorado State University

Experience: Served as the lead police reporter for The Los Angeles Times. Was an individual finalist for the Pulitzer Prize’s Gold Medal for Public Service, and later shared in a Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper’s coverage of the 1992 Rodney King riots. He reported from the Middle East during Operation Desert Storm.

Worked as an investigator and associate field producer for the Los Angeles bureau of CBS News, helping cover the OJ Simpson murder case.

Sold his first feature-length screenplay, the action-thriller Stealth, to 20th Century Fox. Has written on assignment more than a dozen other movies.

Writes for national magazines. His 8,600-word investigation in The Atlantic on how the FBI pursued the wrong suspect for a string of anthrax murders following 9/11, was named one the 10 best stories of 2010 by longform.com, among other aggregators, and selected as a 2011 National Magazine Awards finalist in Feature Writing by the American Society of Magazine Editors. (see http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/05/the-wrong-man/8019/).

Has worked with the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Army’s Battle Command Battle Lab, and other entities within the US intelligence community.

Author a humor book, "Dear Ernest and Julio: the Ordinary Guy’s Search for the Extraordinary Job,” (St. Martin's Press, 1997). His first novel, “Flat Spin,” will be published in 2012 by The Permanent Press.

An instrument-rated private pilot and aircraft owner, Freed lives in California.

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