Broadcast journalist David Crabtree shares his story

1400 West Millbrook Road,Raleigh NC 27612

16 November, 2022

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We welcome you to a special lunch with our North Raleigh Rotary Club as we hear stories from David Crabtree about his career. David Crabtree, veteran broadcast journalist who has served as PBS North Carolina’s interim chief executive officer since April, was appointed recently to the role permanently. Mr. Crabtree started his career as a musician, playing drums professionally with bands in Nashville and doing session work for radio jingles, which led to a job as a radio disc jockey. He left radio to work as press secretary for the Tennessee House of Representatives. His television career as a reporter on Nashville’s WKRN-TV. He later worked at KCNC-TV and KMGH-TV in Denver, Colorado and WITN-TV in Washington, North Carolina. In 1994 he became a news anchor at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Crabtree has won 11 Emmy awards and has been named North Carolina Journalist of the Year four consecutive years by the Radio-Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas. He has also received the Gabriel Award and Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award in 2007 for his documentary on living conditions for migrant workers in North Carolina. Mr. Crabtree won a Midsouth Emmy award for coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and was nominated in 2011 for a Midsouth Emmy for coverage of the funeral for Elizabeth Edwards. Mr. Crabtree was also inducted into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. On the same day of his retirement from WRAL, May 25th 2022, which was deemed “David Crabtree day” in Raleigh by the Mayor at the time. Mr. Crabtree’s devotion to public service includes serving on the boards of Hospice of Wake County, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Duke Children’s Hospital, the North Carolina Symphony and The Divinity School at Duke University. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Crabtree holds a bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University and a master’s degree in Theological Studies from Duke University’s School of Divinity.