Biography
David Gura is a reporter for NPR, writing regularly for The Two-Way, the network’s news and analysis blog.
Previously, as an associate editor of Talk of the Nation, NPR’s midday news-talk program, he produced live coverage of breaking news, long-form interviews, and performance chats. On occasion, Gura filled in for the show’s director and line producer.
He co-produced NPR’s six-hour live broadcast of the inauguration of Barack Obama. In 2008, Gura worked on NPR’s coverage of the caucuses and primaries, the presidential debates, and the general election. During the Democratic National Convention, he filed daily reports from Denver.
Gura’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Columbia Journalism Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, inter alia, and his radio reporting has aired on NPR’s newscasts and magazine programs.
From 2006 to 2007, he was a research assistant to David Grann, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Previously, Gura interned for NPR’s All Things Considered and North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC’s The State of Things.
At Cornell University, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in History and American Studies, magna cum laude, with a concentration in Latin American Studies, Gura was an editor of, and a senior writer for, The Cornell Daily Sun, the nation’s second-oldest independent college newspaper. He spent a semester in La Paz, Bolivia, studying at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and the Universidad Católica Boliviana.
Gura received a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and multimedia training from The Knight Digital Media Center, a partnership of the USC Annenberg School of Communication and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He has received fellowships from Stanford University and the National Constitution Center, and he has participated in conferences run by the French-American Foundation and Washington University in St. Louis.
