David Boraks

About

David Boraks is an editor, writer, photographer, radio producer and newsroom leader whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and on the radio in the U.S. and abroad. He's currently an independent journalist based in North Carolina. He's the former climate reporter at WFAE-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate in Charlotte, NC, where he worked until January 2024. From 2006 to 2015, he was owner, editor and publisher of Davidson News LLC, an online community news network covering the Lake Norman area north of Charlotte, NC. He was the James K. Batten Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Davidson College in 2013. He holds a master of arts in liberal studies (M.A.L.S.) from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., and BA in history from Cornell University. A lifelong journalist, he has managed newsrooms, and covered everything from community news to Wall Street banking to the arts to sports. Honors have included: 1997 Telecommunications Fellow at the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland, a 1998 award as the top technology journalist in North Carolina, the 2009 Algernon Sydney Sullivan community service award at Davidson College, and 2011 Honorable Mention in the SBA/Lake Norman Chamber Small Business of the Year Awards. He also was on teams at WFAE that won regional Edward R. Murrow Awards in 2009, 2016 and 2019. Besides his work at WFAE and DavidsonNews.net, David has worked as an editor and manager at The Hartford Courant and Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle. David has been a speaker or panelist at the Knight Media Forum, Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers conferences, and the Block by Block local news summit, as well as at conferences of the Online News Association, and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He also has lectured to classes at the Poynter Institute, Davidson College, UNC Charlotte and Wingate University.