Priya David has traveled all over the world, but she decided she wanted to be home. Priya David hosts “Keep it Local” weekdays at 4 p.m. on KOIN Local 6.
She was a CBS News correspondent based in New York since 2008. She has covered high profile stories, including reports from Malawi, Africa on Madonna’s adoption of Mercy James and a world exclusive broadcast interview with the man who reportedly was Mercy’s father; an exclusive interview with Lorrie Sullenberger, wife of Captain Sully Sullenberger; extensive live reports from the New York Stock Exchange on the financial crisis; in-depth reports on the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor; the 20th anniversary of Pan Am flight 103; hurricanes Gustav, Hannah, and Ike; and several reports on energy, including alternate sources and gas prices.
“As a reporter, both nationally and internationally, I’ve learned that stories are always about people. They’re about how we feel, the decisions we make, the politics that affect our daily lives, the influence of money or health care or extreme weather. It’s the people that make Keep It Local such a special show. We’re going beyond the headlines to listen to what people want to talk about and the changes they want to make in their communities. I’m fortunate to be part of this innovative new broadcast and live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.”
Before joining CBS News, David was a general assignment reporter at KTVU-TV San Francisco since February 2005. She covered the Southern California wildfires, the death of journalist Chauncey Bailey and the fallout of the Oakland police brutality scandal, as well as many environmental and technology stories. Priya also reported business and culture stories from Bangalore Before that, she was a reporter for MSNBC, covering Vice President Dick Cheney (2004-05) and a campaign embedded reporter, covering presidential hopeful Dick Gephardt and Cheney (2003-04).
During that time, David contributed several reports to the weekend edition of "NBC Nightly News." Previously, she worked fulltime in NBC News’ highly selective News Associate Program (2002-03), including as a general assignment reporter for WVTM-TV, the NBC station in Birmingham, Ala., and as a researcher at "Nightly News with Tom Brokaw" and "Dateline NBC" at NBC and "The News with Brian Williams" at MSNBC.
David was a producer at KKFX-TV Santa Barbara, Calif.; Orange County News Channel and Garden Grove News in Orange County She was graduated with honors from Westmont Santa Barbara College in 1997 with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and with honors from the Annenberg
School at the
University of Southern California in 2002 with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism. Along the way, David also completed internships at CNN in
London, the Foreign Correspondents Program in
Finland and at ABC’s "Peter Jennings Reporting" unit. Her first foray into journalism was an article for the school newspaper in the fourth grade.
David was born in
Chennai,
India, and grew up in
Falls Church,
Va.;
Yorba Linda,
Calif.;
Brussels and
London, where her father worked for an American company that worked with NATO.
