Dave Davies (reporter)

Dave Davies (born 1953, Texas) is an American print and broadcast journalist. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1975.

Davies has reported since 1990 on government and politics at the Philadelphia Daily News, where as of 2007^[update] he is a senior writer. In 1993, he was offered the post of press secretary to Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, and had accepted, but then reversed his decision and declined the post the next week.^[1]

Davies has also worked in radio for station KYW in Philadelphia. On National Public Radio (NPR), Davies has served as a political commentator, and as a substitute host interviewer on Terry Gross' program Fresh Air and the Philadelphia NPR program Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane from WHYY-FM.^[2]

References

1. ^ "They Really Had Him: Daily News reporter Dave Davies opts not to accept Gov. Rendell's six-figure offer." Philadelphia Weekly, 22 January 2003.
2. ^ "Dave Davies". Tavis Smiley (PBS TV show). 21 April 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-03-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20090309113841/http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200804/20080421.html. Retrieved 2009-01-31. 

External links

• National Public Radio biography
• Philadelphia Daily News profile

See also: List of National Public Radio personnel

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