David Fitzpatrick will speak about ““Cable News and How It Changed the American Landscape”. A member of DMA and a Darien resident for 35 years, David is a staff writer for CNN’s flagship prime time newscast, “Anderson Cooper 360.” He has been at CNN as an anchor producer, senior executive producer and investigative producer since 2001. Prior to joining CNN, he spent 25 years at CBS News in a variety of editorial positions, including service as a producer in the network’s Washington, Los Angeles and London Bureaus. He has also served as the network’s Bureau Chief in Chicago and later, National Editor. He joined the CBS Evening News as a producer in the late 1980s and subsequently joined “60 Minutes” as a producer attached to the late Morley Safer. Upon leaving CBS News in 1998, he joined the staff of the ABC News prime time newsmagazine “20/20.”
During his career, he has worked for CBS News, ABC News and CNN on assignment across the world, including time in Iran during the hostage crisis, in Poland during the Solidarity uprising, throughout the Middle East, Africa, Central and South America. He’s also been assigned to work in New Orleans during the Katrina disaster, in Indonesia for the devastating tsunamis of 2004/05 and in Malaysia for the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
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