David Diaz is a veteran TV correspondent and anchor who has covered major news and produced and written features and breaking stories at both WCBS TV and WNBC TV. He has been a fixture in New York television news since 1978, when he joined WNBC-TV as a reporter and anchor. In 1993, he moved to WCBS-TV, where he was a senior correspondent and anchor. During his career he frequently covered city government including Mayors Ed Koch, David Dinkins, Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, as well as scores of election campaigns and public policy battles. Major national stories he has covered include the events on 9/11 (World Trade Center terrorist attack), the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, the 2000 Presidential election recount and the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

Before becoming a television reporter, he spent five years on the Brooklyn College faculty (1970 – 1975) teaching an introductory class in social sciences and serving as Director of Field Studies for the School of Contemporary Studies. He also served as administrator of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center from 1975 to 1976. Earlier, he was city editor for Community New Services, where he helped train minority journalists. He began his career in 1967 as an urban affairs reporter with the Louisville (Ky.) Times. David Diaz is currently a Distinguished Lecturer at City College, where he teaches Mass Media and Politics.

David Diaz received a B.A. in philosophy from The City College of New York in 1965 and subsequently did graduate work in that subject at The New School. In 1967, he earned an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In addition, he completed all but dissertation toward a Ph.D. in political science from the City University of New York.

During his career, he received five Emmy Awards, two Sigma Delta Chi Awards and an Associated Press Award. In addition, he received the President’s Medal from Brooklyn College 1987 and the Townsend Harris Medal from the Alumni Association of The City College of New York in 1993. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1965 and is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1965 – 1966) and a Columbia University International Fellow (1966 – 1967).