David Schechter Email & Phone Number

David is a National Environmental Correspondent with CBS News and Stations and the Host of the "On the Dot with David Schechter", a guided journey to explore how we're changing the earth and earth is changing us. His work, with producing partner Chance Horner, captures a spirit of adventure, camaraderie, curiosity and fun while exploring the causes and solutions of climate change. This year he co-founded the CBS E-Team, training local reporters, meteorologists and news managers to break through the barriers that keep them from covering climate change.In 2021 David was awarded the dupont-Columbia Silver Baton for his reporting on climate change, considered the Pulitzer Prize of broadcast journalism. He's a two-time winner of the national Murrow Award for documentary, three-time Scripps Howard National Journalism Award winner, recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Reporting, a James Beard Award Finalist, University of Michigan graduate, a patented inventor and a Poynter Institute Ethics Fellow.Previously, Schechter was the host, co-producer and co-creator of Verify Road Trip at WFAA-TV and TEGNA Media. He took real people along on his reporting trips so they could ask their own questions, see what he saw and reach their own conclusions. For example, on Verify Road Trip, David took a climate skeptic to Alaska, a Trump supporter to the border, and brought a supporter of capital punishment to the site of an execution.

Listed skills include Journalism, Social Media, Broadcast Journalism, Product Innovation, and 1 others.

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  University Of Michigan

  Communications