Dave Davies
Dave Davies is a guest host for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
In addition to his role at Fresh Air, Davies is a senior reporter for WHYY in Philadelphia. Prior to WHYY, he spent 19 years as a reporter and columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, covering government and politics.
Before joining the Daily News in 1990, Davies was city hall bureau chief for KYW News Radio, Philadelphia's commercial all-news station. From 1982 to 1986, Davies was a reporter for WHYY covering local issues and filing reports for NPR. He also edited a community newspaper in Philadelphia and has worked as a teacher, a cab driver and a welder.
Davies is a graduate of the University of Texas.
Content
- How Trump's attacks on voting system integrity might affect upcoming elections
- Why local officials are feeling 'on edge' as election day approaches
- Aboard an icebreaker, a writer got a closer look at the Arctic's 'Sea Change'
- How Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has brought the culture wars to the military
- How Ukrainians are coping with new, more deadly Russian attacks
- Why does the U.S. military seem stymied in the war with Iran?
- 'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson says Nolan shouldn't have written the movie himself
- Trump relished in being compared to dictators like Hitler and Stalin, journalist says