KQED Radio Staff

David Iverson

Friday Host, Forum

David Iverson has been a producer, writer and anchor for public broadcasting for nearly 30 years. He co-produced, directed, wrote and reported the 2009 PBS Frontline documentary "My Father, My Brother and Me," which profiled his family's struggle with Parkinson's disease. Most recently, he has covered the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake for the PBS NewsHour. Other recent productions include a national special for PBS called Kids and Divorce: For Better or Worse and the national follow-up to the American Experience episode "Two Days in October." Iverson was the writer, narrator, co-producer and executive producer of the national Emmy award winning PBS documentary "The 30 Second Candidate". In 2000, he served as the Presidential Debate Commission's coordinating producer for the Vice Presidential Debate between Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman. In all he has written and supervised production of over 25 documentaries for national prime time broadcast on PBS. Iverson also hosts radio and television programs for KQED public broadcasting in San Francisco.

From 2000 through 2004, Iverson was the executive director of Best Practices in Journalism, a nationwide initiative headquartered at Wisconsin Public Television designed to improve local television 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, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold Award, and the Ohio State 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 has done consulting for public television and radio stations around the country as well as the MacArthur Foundation. He's also served on advisory panels for PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, MacNeil-Lehrer Productions and the Independent Television Service. He has lectured widely about American politics and journalism including presentations in Oslo, Vienna, Warsaw and Krakow.

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