David Common is a Canadian journalist. He is a CBC News correspondent currently based in New York City. as of September 2013 he is the host of World Report Monday-Friday He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in Toronto, Ontario where he attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute and York University. He studied International Security Issues at Stockholm University in Sweden.
David has worked for CTV News and CBC News. He began with the CBC at the London bureau, moving later to Toronto, Fredericton, Regina and eventually back to Toronto as a National Reporter before being posted to Paris, France in 2006. From France, he travelled extensively in western and eastern Europe and north Africa, shooting and editing his own stories.
In 2009, he was transferred to New York where he works as the CBC's Correspondent in that city, though he covered the 2010 Haiti earthquake, VE Day 65th anniversary celebrations in the Netherlands, and continues to travel frequently.
David Common has filed reports from across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as helped cover conflicts in Haiti, Afghanistan and Iraq.
He has received several awards, and was nominated for a Gemini Award twice in the Best Reportage category, winning once.
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