KQED Radio Staff

David Iverson

Friday Host, Forum

David Iverson has been a producer and anchor of national, regional, and local specials for public broadcasting for nearly 30 years. In 2005, he hosted the national follow-up broadcast to the American Experience documentary "Two Days in October." He is also the producer and host of the September 2006 PBS special "When Parents Divorce: For Better or Worse." Iverson was the writer, narrator and co-producer of the 1999 national Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary "The 30 Second Candidate," which aired nationwide on PBS, and the coordinating producer for the Vice Presidential Debate in 2000. He has written, anchored, and supervised production of over 25 other primetime television documentaries for national broadcast on PBS. Currently, Iverson also hosts programs for KQED public radio and television in San Francisco.

From 2000 through 2004, Iverson was the executive director of Best Practices in Journalism, a nationwide initiative to encourage better local coverage of politics and supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

As a producer/writer and executive producer, Iverson's awards include a national Emmy Award, the Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia Award, the Gabriel Award, the New York Film Festival Gold and Silver Awards, the Chicago Film Festival Gold Hugo, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold Award. Regional awards include four Midwest Emmy awards, as well as over 50 Milwaukee Press Club, Northwest Broadcast News Association, and Wisconsin Broadcast Association awards.

Iverson is a graduate of Stanford University and received his M.S. in Telecommunications from Indiana University.