David Schechter
David Merrill Schechter (born February 16, 1971) is an American broadcast journalist and CBS News’s National Environmental Correspondent. He is known for work that emphasizes human impact in complex issues — particularly climate change and environmental science. Schechter is best known as the creator and host of Verify Road Trip, a documentary style program that took viewers on the road to examine public issues for themselves.
Over his career, Schechter worked as a local news reporter in Dallas, Minneapolis, Dubuque, Youngstown, and Kansas City before transitioning to CBS in 2022. Schechter has won multiple national awards, among them an Alfred duPont-Columbia University Award, multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards, two Scripps Howard Awards, and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Reporting.
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